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• High-speed trains in Japan can now reach 375 mph - twice as fast as any public transit train in the United States. America's railroads were once the envy of the world. Today they are in disrepair and we are falling further and further behind the rest of the world. We need to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, including rail. When we do that we not only make our country more productive and efficient, we create millions of new jobs.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Fall

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• Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

  Adrienne Rich

  Knives, Cake, Mind

  1963 Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law,'Snapshots of a Daughterin- Law,1'.

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• Y dicen
  Está en el equipo de clase A
  Atrapada en su ensoñación
  Lleva así desde los dieciocho, pero últimamente
  Su cara parece
  Lentamente hundiendo, desperdiciando
  Desmoronándose como pasteles
  Y gritan
  Las peores cosas de la vida nos salen gratis
  Porque estamos bajo la mano
  Enloquecer por un par de gramos
  Y ella no quiere salir esta noche
  Y en una pipa vuela a la Madre Patria
  O vende el amor a otro hombre
  Hace demasiado frío fuera
  Para que los ángeles vuelen
  Ángeles para volar

  Ed Sheeran

  Pareja, Equipo, Ángel

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• Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news picture, no matter how hard-earned, allows me only a crumbling foothold on this steepening climb—an ascent whose milestones are fear and doubt.

  Sally Mann

  Taken, Air, Doubt

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• We have begun a throw away culture. This tendency is seen on the level of individuals and whole societies; and it is being promoted! In circumstances like these, solidarity, which is the treasure of the poor, is often considered counterproductive, opposed to the logic of finance and the economy. While the income of a minority is increasing exponentially, that of the majority is crumbling.

  Pope Francis

  Majority, Income, Culture

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.35, Orbis Books

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• I think that political parties are fuelling this fear in order to create divisions. The more we bring up fear, the more we neglect real political issues. Political debate in France is crumbling since every single issue is brought to Islam now.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Real, Fiesta, Pensamiento

  Fuente: themuslimtimes.info

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• Si yo fuera
  callado como un trueno
  ¡cómo lloraría y gemiría!
  Un gemido mío
  haría temblar el claustro desmoronado del mundo.
  Y si
  acabaría rugiendo
  con toda la potencia de sus pulmones y más -
  los cometas, angustiados, se retorcerían las manos
  y desde el techo del cielo
  saltarían enfebrecidos.

  Vladimir Mayakovski

  Hands, Sky, Roaring

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (1985). “Селестед Воркс ин Тхрее Волумес: Селестед версе”

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• En unas elecciones como estas [las de 2016], en las que no solo los votantes están insatisfechos, sino que los cimientos de nuestra economía, nuestra democracia, nuestro ecosistema y la guerra y la paz internacionales se están desmoronando y corren un grave riesgo de fracasar en muchos aspectos, necesitamos desesperadamente mantener una conversación pública honesta sobre el historial de nuestra trayectoria, los problemas críticos a los que nos enfrentamos y lo que hace falta para resolverlos.

  Jill Stein

  War, Ecosystems, Track

  Fuente: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Broken, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.17, Yale University Press

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• You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.

  Macklemore

  Labels, Unconventional, Approach

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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• Is it really in our countrys best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out a little longer because congressional determination to defeat them is crumbling? Doesnt such a resolution further diminish our chances for success at the very time our soldiers are preparing to go into battle? And finally, regardless of our politics is this the time to announce to the world that our president is 'on his own'?

  Fred Thompson

  Determination, Waiting, Soldier

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• With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!

  David Hockney

  Photography, War, Editing

  "'Photography is Crumbling'". Interview with Martin Gayford, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 18, 2004.

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• You know that thing when you're not asleep but you're not awake, and you can't move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my mouth. Now I have this fear of all my teeth being knocked out of my mouth somehow!

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Moving, Teeth, Mouths

  "Hot Guy to Know: Nicholas D'Agosto". Interview with Kara McGrath, www.seventeen.com. August 8, 2011.

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• Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling.

  Robert Payne

  Firsts, Kingdoms, Philosopher

  "The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America". Book by Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (Ibn Khaldun and Machiavelli, p. 139), 1975.

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• Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.

  David O. Selznick

  Blow, Wind, Pyramids

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• Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling.

  James Russell Lowell

  Blue, Weather, Tears

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes”, p.19

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• El desmoronado castillo, que se alzaba entre las brumas, exhalaba la estación, y cada fría piedra la exhalaba. Los árboles torturados junto al oscuro lago ardían y goteaban, sus hojas arrebatadas por el viento giraban en círculos salvajes a través de las torres. Las nubes se marchitaban enroscadas o se movían inquietas sobre el cielo de piedra, levantando coronas que se deslizaban por las torrecillas y trepaban por los muros ocultos.

  Mervyn Peake

  Wall, Dark, Lakes

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.161, The Overlook Press

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• ¿Quiénes somos en realidad? ¿Combinaciones de sustancias químicas comunes que realizan acciones mecánicas durante unos años antes de volver a desintegrarse en los componentes originales? ¿Nuevas almas frescas, extraídas al azar para algún armario celestial donde Dios guarda un suministro interminable? ¿O la misma alma, inmortal y eterna, renovada y reutilizada a través de vidas interminables, por esa ahorrativa ama de llaves? En Su sabiduría y benevolencia, Ella borra las pizarras de la memoria, como parte del proceso de limpieza, porque si pudiéramos recordar todas las cosas que hemos experimentado en vidas anteriores, podríamos oponernos a arriesgarnos de nuevo.

  Barbara Mertz

  Recuerdos, Años, Alma

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• Millions are unemployed and our roads are falling apart. If we can spend $6 trillion sending people to war, we can spend $1 trillion to put Americans to work fixing our nation's crumbling infrastructure. Let's rebuild America and create jobs.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, War, Fall

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• It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always been the success of a single victor. Coalition successes bear by the very nature of their origin the germ of future crumbling, in fact of the loss of what has already been achieved. Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions.

  Adolf Hitler

  Spiritual, Struggle, Loss

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• Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling like a macaroon under the least pressure.

  Isobel Miller Kuhn

  Heart, Missionary, Pressure

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• Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

  Tony Wilson

  Pride, Gun, Drug

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• Vamos al cine para olvidarnos del tiempo, para estar en un estado de ensoñación. Y es un entretenimiento, una distracción, del hecho de que todo se está desmoronando ante nuestros ojos.

  Christian Marclay

  Dream, Eye, Entertainment

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• Estados Unidos está en quiebra -fiscal, moral, intelectual- y la Reserva Federal ha incitado una guerra mundial de divisas a la que Japón acaba de apuntarse, los brasileños y los chinos están furiosos y la zona euro, dominada por Alemania, está sufriendo un desmoronamiento que pronto la desbordará. Cuando estalle la última burbuja, no habrá nada que detenga el colapso. Si esto suena a consejo para salir de los mercados y esconderse en efectivo, lo es.

  David Stockman

  Guerra, Japón, Consejos

  "State-Wrecked: La corrupción del capitalismo en Estados Unidos", de David A. Stockman, www.nytimes.com. 30 de marzo de 2013.

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• Los resultados del socialismo han oscilado entre lo meramente lamentable y lo verdaderamente catastrófico: pobreza, conflictos, opresión y, en los campos de exterminio del comunismo, la muerte en este siglo de unos 100 millones de personas. A esta doctrina se opuso la creencia conservadora en una libertad regida por la ley. Fue este punto de vista el que triunfó con el derrumbamiento del Muro de Berlín. Desde entonces, la izquierda ha intentado rehabilitarse distanciándose de su pasado.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Muro, Pasado, Vistas

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