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I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work.
Helen Thomas / Author
Decrepit
Giving
Giving Up
Want
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A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
Malcolm Muggeridge / Journalist
Society
Decrepit
Individual
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There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.
Gerrit Smith / American Politician
Decrepit
Rooms
Vigorous
Young
Ranks
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The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.
Nathaniel Hawthorne / Novelist
Decrepit
Grey
World
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Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples.
Graham Chapman / Comedian
Decrepit
Dressing
Ladies
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Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.
Gerald Griffin /
Decrepit
Finished
Soldier
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The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.
Suzanne Somers / Actress
Aging
Decrepit
Frail
Myth
Sick
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I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.
Rufus Wainwright / Singer
Decrepit
Longing
Reverence
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I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.
Lulu / Singer
Beyonce
Decrepit
Next
Old Lady
Past
Want
Rihanna
In The Past
Lady
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For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.
F. Sionil José / Writer
Aging
Decrepit
Deeds
Delay
Fullness
Rejoice
Youth
Bodies
Infuse
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The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.
David Byrne / Musician
Decrepit
Neighborhood
One Day
Rich
Rich Poor
Voting
Booth
Joint
Leveler
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
George Eliot / Novelist
Funny
Happy Birthday
Smile
Time
Decrepit
Enough
Fifty
Hardest
Years
Asked
Between
Down
Seventy
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Surely, we've got a way that we can tinker with this system that shuttles our children from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand-new high-tech prisons.
Michelle Alexander / Professor
Decrepit
High-Tech
Prisons
Surely
Tinker
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Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.
Rufus Wainwright / Singer
America
Decrepit
Rebirth
Thinking
Want
Destroy
Experienced
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
Daniel Cudmore / Film Actor
Men
Decrepit
Past
Ugly
Vampire
In The Past
Old Men
Vampires
Young Men
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Part of my job is to be looked at and I do think we live in a world where you are judged on your looks. If you look at someone you previously liked and they look old and decrepit, I don't think it's that pleasant.
Limahl /
Decrepit
Judged
Pleasant
World Your Look
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The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.
Aubrey De Grey / Author
Aim
Decrepit
Disabled
Disease
End Of Life
Extending
Frailty
Passed
Postpone
Shorten
Thereby
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The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.
Pankaj Mishra / Essayist
Chinese
Decrepit
Empires
Free Trade
Ruins
Scorned
Turkish
Arab
Imperialist
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A plump, well-fed stream is as satisfying to behold as a well-fed animal or a thrifty tree. One source of charm in the English landscape is the full, placid stream the season through; no desiccated watercourses will you see there, nor any feeble, decrepit brooks, hardly able to get over the ground.
John Burroughs / Essayist
Animal
Brooks
Charm
Decrepit
Landscape
Satisfying
Tree
Behold
English
Feeble
Ground
Hardly
Nor
Season
Stream
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I vividly remember my sixth-grade classroom. I remember what it smelled like, where I sat, what I could see out the window, and how I felt about things. Peel away my decrepit middle-aged exterior, and an important part of me is still twelve years old. It helps me when I sit down to write stories for kids.
Rodman Philbrick / Writer
Classroom
Decrepit
Exterior
Middle Aged
Twelve
Window
Important Part
Peel
Smelled
Vividly
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Most new prison construction has occurred in predominately white, rural communities, and thus a new and bizarre form of segregation has emerged in recent years. Ghetto youth are transferred from their decrepit, underfunded, racially segregated schools to brand-new high-tech prisons located in white rural counties.
Michelle Alexander / Professor
Bizarre
Construction
Decrepit
Ghetto
Counties
Emerged
High-Tech
Located
Occurred
Prisons
Recent
Recent Years
Rural
Segregated
Thus
Transferred
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