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«Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.»
«Never be surprised at the crumbling of an idol or the disclosure of a skeleton»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
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«If the sun refused to shine, I'd still be loving you. If mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.»
«Crumbling between the fingers, under the feet, / Crumbling behind the eyes, / Their world gives way and dies / And something twangs and breaks at the end of the street.»
Author: Louis MacNeice
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«I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!»
«If this invisible germ of life in the grain of wheat can thus pass unimpaired through three thousand resurrections, I shall not doubt that my soul has power to clothe itself with a body suited to its new existence when this earthly frame has crumbled into dust.»
Author: William Jennings Bryan
(Orator, Politician)
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«Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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«Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
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«In one way, the fickle fish of the mind will be held steady; the swan-soul shall not fly away, and the body-wall will not crumble»