Kirk Cameron

As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul of our country. I examine the fruit that's hanging on the tree of America, and I can see that it's rotting. And that concerns me deeply.

American Actor

Killer Mike

You can't argue that hip-hop rots away the moral character of kids or rots their brain and still see middle-class white kids going to college who are listening to hip-hop. Going on to become healthy adults listening to hip-hop.

American Musician

Gaspar Noe

I think life after death is in the mind of the people around you. It's what's left in this world in the memory of others, but when the flesh starts rotting, the spirit disappears.

Argentinian Director

Edward Norton

Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

Philip Gibbs

We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.

British Journalist

Gutzon Borglum

I am ready to rot in jail for the rest of my life rather than admit that my small-minded enemies are right.

American Sculptor

Edvard Munch

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Norwegian Artist

Ogden Nash

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

American Poet

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Philosopher

Georgia May Jagger

English Model

Used to indicate the gradual decay over time, especially with neglect.

Time Indicator

Highlights the visible damage or degeneration of materials.

Physical Damage

Implies something undesirable and usually irreparable.

Negative Connotation

Refers to the natural breakdown of organic materials.

Natural Process

Can be prevented by appropriate action or care.

Preventable State

The action of rotting usually increases over time if unchecked.

Progressive Action

Used metaphorically for a decline in moral standards or character.

Moral Deterioration

Can describe how negative experiences degrade someone's mental state.

Psychological Effect

Slang expression, mainly used in the UK to show disbelief or disagreement.

British Colloquial

Expresses strong rejection or the act of dismissing someone's opinion.

Informal Dismissal

 But the sight of their fellow vultures guides them to the feeding. Their featherless heads help them regulate the sudden rise in temperature as they descend— and keep them clean as they tear into the decaying gazelle. The carcass is stripped clean in hours, well before the rotting meat infects the water supply.

Vultures: The...

 and can be reared on organic waste, like vegetable peelings, that might otherwise just end up rotting in landfills. Feeling hungry yet? Faced with a plate of fried crickets, most people today would still recoil, imagining all those legs and feelers getting stuck between their teeth. But think of a lobster.

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 by controlling the warmth in his kumara filled sheds it stayed fresh all year round and the industry cheered but all was not well in the northern fields on the dark of the flats the fields fell to yield the kumara growers were down on their knees black rot had set in a killer disease you do it

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 Those are very important, critically important to us. And we must do something about those problems. But at the same time, as Arthur C. Clarke said, The rotting of the human mind, the business of believing in the paranormal and the occult and the supernatural --

Homeopathy, quackery and...

 not thousands of tons of clothing and it's rotting they're gonna burn it and then put it out to sea and there's certainly nothing green about that at all now what about the economy one of the first things you want to have happen when a whole area gets

The dark side of...

 Leaks, mold, bug and rodent infestations - all the usual enemies of the homeowner- now go uncontested. Within 75 years, most houses' supporting beams have rotted and sagged, and the resulting collapsed heap is now home to local rodents and lizards.

What would happen if...

 they're the bowels of one of the world's largest and most polluted cities where disease runs rampant and the stench is sickening human excrement toxic waste rotting cadavers all flowing right

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 Reluctantly, the youth knocked on the rotting door. The devil’s grandmother answered his call. She was known to help some visiting souls, and harm others.

The tale of the boy who...

 but it's very attractive to carrion flies they lay their eggs on rotting flesh the scent lures the fly deep into the

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