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    1. "An epidemic of decadence


    2. “Sure,” I said, not really thrilled about the decadence of the whole thing, as Robin back in Colorado was so well aware


    3. His socialism was accompanied by a passing phase of vegetarianism, and with the ferment of youth working headily within him he could hardly escape the charge of being a crank, but "a crank, if a little thing, makes revolutions," and Brooke's youthful extravagances were utterly untinged with decadence


    4. I shook my head at the decadence of today"s youth and indicated with a conspiratorial nod that I"d keep an eye on the place


    5. She has studied The Eliminator, she has learned its every move, she knows what it lusts after, knows what it cannot resist: knowledge, decadence, and bad music


    6. And the man’s sores healed within a week! Had he not driven bad spirits and decadence from men merely with his presence? The demons of lust and greed would writhe in agony, trying to take control of the inflicted men, as they had all of their tortured lives


    7. It further presents the history of having experienced Hellenization, paganization, secularization, institutionalization, intellectual deterioration, spiritual decadence, moral hibernation, threatened extinction, later rejuvenation, fragmentation, and more recent relative rehabilitation


    8. much more productive without thy consuming decadence and


    9. An alcove held a marble bust – head and shoulders, a nod to Romanesque decadence


    10. decadence among the youths have chosen the path of righteousness

    11. What’s gained by all the suffering and death, when even the victor dies not having experienced the beauty of peace and warmth of friendship, or even decadence of luxury? Right or wrong, Alexander was an able military leader


    12. "Your Chocolate Decadence would have hit the spot


    13. The space brothel was chosen as a target because it had no effective defenses against such a ramming attack and because it symbolized for the African Union the supposed decadence and extravagant waste of us Spacers


    14. The Hotel Elysium rose like a neon castle above the riff-raff of the city, an icon of decadence wrapped in Grecian columns and faux ivory


    15. When Mercury is located at either one of its elongation points (within five days of exact GWE or GEE) it is furthest from the sun, so the natives’ inner dialogue is developed to a high degree of refinement, embellishment, and decadence


    16. This underscores the worrisome level of moral decadence prevalent amongst some University lecturers who, in reality, should be setting moral standards and good examples for the younger generations


    17. All will be revealed when vanity reaches a pinnacle of decadence


    18. It creates decadence


    19. Your decadence is a sign of inward collapse


    20. Abstain from decadence without judging those who participate in it

    21. There use to be the concept of the “Noble Savage” where adherents believed individuals from backwards cultures were somehow morally superior since they had not been sullied by the perceived decadence of more developed nations


    22. "decadence" was a reaction against the hard,marmoreal forms of the "Parnasse," and in its train


    23. Where I differed with them was that I saw clearly and was sometimes revolted by the decadence


    24. I was downing a scrumptious bite of something that had the flavor of summer decadence with a hint of spicy warmth when Artaxis almost made me choke on it by saying, “For your information, Philanthia’s army is more than three times the size of ours


    25. His followers adopted the big, muscular type of their master, but lost the primitive strength he expressed; and when this primitive force was lost sight of, what a decadence set in!


    26. And when these primitive conditions are lost touch with, a decadence sets in


    27. Like Durgeon, Madnishnue had thrived in the decadence that followed the war, and was said to be every bit as ruthless as his cross-town nemesis


    28. There’s another thing those scenes of decadence have in common


    29. Mori seemed to disapprove of cutlery as a sort of unnecessary decadence and by way of reinforcing the point, he did all the washing up except Thaniel’s fork, which he left in a jar like a chemical specimen


    30. A very shrewd observer of the deterioration of Western societies, British writer Theodore Dalrymple, said: “This mental flabbiness is decadence, and at the same time a manifestation of the arrogant assumption that nothing can destroy us

    31. It may be that in the larger design of the universe this invasion from Mars is not without its ultimate benefit for men; it has robbed us of that serene confidence in the future which is the most fruitful source of decadence, the gifts to human science it has brought are enormous, and it has done much to promote the conception of the commonweal of mankind


    32. The decadence of Richardson's popularity amongst his countrymen is a fact familiar to all


    33. The chief wire-puller in this affair was Maslova, presenting the phenomenon of decadence in its lowest form


    34. He spoke of heredity, of innate criminality, of Lombroso, of Charcot, of evolution, of the struggle for existence, of hypnotism, of hypnotic suggestion, and of decadence


    35. But the ruling spirit in this crime was Maslova, who was the mouthpiece of the lowest phenomenon of decadence


    36. As instances of questions which are to a certain extent their own answers I will quote the following:—Concerning the 4th question, of the methods for making heretics, he asks in one of the questions (the 7th): "Does not all history tend to show us that the greatest makers of heretics, the adepts in the art, were those very wiseacres from whom the Father concealed his secrets—that is, the hypocrites, the Pharisees, and the Scribes, or utterly godless and evil-minded men? (Question 20-21) And in the corrupted times of Christianity did not the hypocrites and envious ones reject the very men, talented and especially indorsed by the Lord, who would have been highly esteemed in periods of pure Christianity? (21) And, on the other hand, would not those men who during the decadence of Christianity rose above all others, and set themselves up as teachers of the purest Christianity, would not they, during the times of the apostles of Christ and his disciples, have been considered as the shameful heretics and anti-Christians?" Among other things, while expressing the idea that the verbal declaration of the essence of faith which was required by the Church, the abjuration of which was regarded as a heresy, could never cover all the ideas and beliefs of the faithful, and that hence the requirement that faith shall be expressed by a certain formula of words is the immediate cause of heresy, he says in the 21st question:—


    37. And they would succeed, because the certainty of peace—I do not say peace, but the absolute certainty of peace—would in less than half a century produce a corruption and a decadence in men more destructive than the worst of wars


    38. If by some impossible chance a fraction of human society—all the civilized West, let us suppose—were to succeed in suspending the action of this law, some races of stronger instincts would undertake the task of putting it into action against us: those races would vindicate nature's reasoning against human reason; they would be successful, because the certainty of peace—I do not say peace, I say the certainty of peace—would, in half a century, engender a corruption and a decadence more destructive for mankind than the worst of wars


    39. The fact remains that nothing can be more sane or simple, and it only touches fanatical frenzy in minds which border hysteria and decadence


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