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Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans.

Bill Gross
vampire decay real

My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

Bill Vaughan
decay cutting understanding
That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us... by Brian Aldiss

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

Brian Aldiss
unhappy-childhood decay children

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

Bruce Springsteen
decay responsibility trying

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

C. S. Lewis
decay logic real

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

C. S. Lewis
amulets holy-places decay

The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

Carl Sagan
decay ignorance america
Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, i... by Carl Sandburg

Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.

Carl Sandburg
decay forget people

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.

Carmen Laforet
decay goes-on stories

The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's where I find a lot of inspiration. There is just as much beauty there, but there is also decay and violence.

Carrie Brownstein
decay inspiration animal
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the bod... by Cato the Younger

Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

Cato the Younger
decay sloth soul
Progress, this great heresy of decay. by Charles Baudelaire

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Charles Baudelaire
decay progress literature

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

Charles Caleb Colton
decay greed passion

I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.

Chief Seattle
decay brother may
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays. by Chinua Achebe

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

Chinua Achebe
debt decay business

He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

D. H. Lawrence
decay race animal

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

David LaChapelle
fragility decay thinking
Time is the speed at which the past decays. by David Mitchell

Time is the speed at which the past decays.

David Mitchell
decay speed past
Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay by David Toop

Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay

David Toop
decay states sound

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay?

Decimius Magnus Ausonius
decay wonder men
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