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Some people aren’t ready to see that yet, it’s literally people’s flesh rotting, and you can smell it. – James Sherman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
My skin was rotting off and my bones were visible, i thought I would die on that boat. – Hatemon Nesa	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I was ready to put my head through a wall – it was like, ‘ Are you kidding ? The biggest threat is COVID ? ’ There are things rotting us from the bottom. Either you just don't know or you are playing a political game, but it doesn't matter because you are not benefiting the junior service member if that is your diagnosis of the problem. – Marine Lt. Gen. Stuart Scheller	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Three dead bodies were rotting outside our home for three days, but it was too dangerous to get them. The Taliban is attacking on one side. The government is attacking the other side. In the middle we are just losing, we just want peace. We need peace. We don't care who's the ruler... People said that when America withdraws there would be peace in Afghanistan but then they withdrew and the war got worse. – Mahmad Ismael	Found on CNN 2 years ago
For the last three weeks, table grapes have been experiencing lengthy delays at port. There are about 400 or 500 containers that are taking between five and 10 days longer than normal to be cleared, the fruit is in cold storage so it’s not rotting but shipments are being moved from port to port to try and avoid delays and Australian farmers will be liable for that costs. – Jeff Scott	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The fruit is in cold storage so it’s not rotting but shipments are being moved from port to port to try and avoid delays and Australian farmers will be liable for that costs. – Jeff Scott	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I could smell a funny smell. Like rotting. Not nice. There was stuff inside of it. – Shane Schlatman	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The vast majority of slugs and snails feed on dead or rotting vegetation so I wouldn't call them the gardener's pest, they get a bad press. – Paul Hetherington	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There were thousands of them. I felt physically sick. I felt dirty, like I had rotting flesh. I wanted my leg off there and then. – Victoria Abbott-Fleming	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Car companies are saying they're not able to continue production. Retailers are losing access to product. Agricultural products are rotting in their containers because they can't be shipped overseas, when all that economic impact began to be felt, it became very difficult for the President to do nothing. If Secretary Perez determines that there's no hope of reaching an agreement, the President could be forced to make a difficult choice. . Under the Taft-Hartley Act,, if the President concludes that a strike or labor dispute is a threat to the country's health or safety, he can go to court and seek an injunction to force everybody back to work. This is where a labor dispute could become a more complicated political issue. President Barack Obama is on track to send Congress legislation that will give President Barack Obama fast-track trade authority, an essential tool to win congressional approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal with 11 Pacific Rim nations, making it the largest trade deal in American history. The labor movement is generally strongly opposed to fast-track authority and the Trans Pacific Partnership. – Labor Secretary Seth Harris	Found on CNN 9 years ago
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people -- including me -- would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. – Hunter S. Thompson	added by anonymous 10 years ago
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. – Edvard Munch	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War. – Edmund White	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Some people aren’t ready to see that yet, it’s literally people’s flesh rotting, and you can smell it.

– James Sherman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My skin was rotting off and my bones were visible, i thought I would die on that boat.

– Hatemon Nesa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was ready to put my head through a wall – it was like, ‘ Are you kidding ? The biggest threat is COVID ? ’ There are things rotting us from the bottom. Either you just don't know or you are playing a political game, but it doesn't matter because you are not benefiting the junior service member if that is your diagnosis of the problem.

– Marine Lt. Gen. Stuart Scheller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Three dead bodies were rotting outside our home for three days, but it was too dangerous to get them. The Taliban is attacking on one side. The government is attacking the other side. In the middle we are just losing, we just want peace. We need peace. We don't care who's the ruler... People said that when America withdraws there would be peace in Afghanistan but then they withdrew and the war got worse.

– Mahmad Ismael

Found on CNN
2 years ago

For the last three weeks, table grapes have been experiencing lengthy delays at port. There are about 400 or 500 containers that are taking between five and 10 days longer than normal to be cleared, the fruit is in cold storage so it’s not rotting but shipments are being moved from port to port to try and avoid delays and Australian farmers will be liable for that costs.

– Jeff Scott

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The fruit is in cold storage so it’s not rotting but shipments are being moved from port to port to try and avoid delays and Australian farmers will be liable for that costs.

– Jeff Scott

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I could smell a funny smell. Like rotting. Not nice. There was stuff inside of it.

– Shane Schlatman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The vast majority of slugs and snails feed on dead or rotting vegetation so I wouldn't call them the gardener's pest, they get a bad press.

– Paul Hetherington

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There were thousands of them. I felt physically sick. I felt dirty, like I had rotting flesh. I wanted my leg off there and then.

– Victoria Abbott-Fleming

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Car companies are saying they're not able to continue production. Retailers are losing access to product. Agricultural products are rotting in their containers because they can't be shipped overseas, when all that economic impact began to be felt, it became very difficult for the President to do nothing. If Secretary Perez determines that there's no hope of reaching an agreement, the President could be forced to make a difficult choice. . Under the Taft-Hartley Act,, if the President concludes that a strike or labor dispute is a threat to the country's health or safety, he can go to court and seek an injunction to force everybody back to work. This is where a labor dispute could become a more complicated political issue. President Barack Obama is on track to send Congress legislation that will give President Barack Obama fast-track trade authority, an essential tool to win congressional approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal with 11 Pacific Rim nations, making it the largest trade deal in American history. The labor movement is generally strongly opposed to fast-track authority and the Trans Pacific Partnership.

– Labor Secretary Seth Harris

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people -- including me -- would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

– Hunter S. Thompson

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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

– Edvard Munch

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

– Edmund White

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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