Decline Quotes

• The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

  James Cook

  Fall, Civilization, Citizens

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• Be hald, and your friends are many;
  Be sad, and you lose them all.
  There are to decline your nectared wine,
  But all you must drink life's gall.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Wine, Drink, Loses

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• People must have freedom and at the same time they must have security. They must not be using freedom to fight with each other. When they have security of the mind, their fears will subside, and their mistrust of others will also decline. There will be no need to worry that somebody will be looking at you with jealousy. They won't have to worry that someone will report some lies to their superiors and get them into trouble. This fear of being unjustly punished would disappear and I believe confidence and trust will mount and people will have more love and respect towards one another.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Lying, Believe, Fighting

  Source: www.rfa.org

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• It was an all-white church. It was starting to decline. They had to hire a new pastor, and they hired him. But he came under the condition that "I want and I'm called to make this a multiethnic church." So they knew. He's interesting because he's part-Asian, part-white. He's married to a Hispanic woman, so that's their family and that's their vision.

  Michael Emerson

  White, Interesting, Vision

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The more money women make, the less violence, the less sexual crimes against women. Everything horrific and misogynistic declines. But then what you're dealing with here is "What does it mean to be in love with people who are your equals?" And that's a very beautiful thing that we should cherish, but it's also incredibly tough in some ways.

  Stephen Marche

  Beautiful, Mean, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Fall, Aggravation, Firsts

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “My Work: In Retrospect”, p.99, Ignatius Press

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• If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

  Stephen Bayley

  War, Political, Atmosphere

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• For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.

  Charles M. Vest

  Real, Science, Technology

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• I decline to accept the end of man.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

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• As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Islamic, Ethnicity, Aggravation

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• Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

  Jane Byrne

  Aggravation, Chicago, Mayors

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• Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

  John Keats

  Death, Divorce, Sea

  John Keats (2015). “Sonnets (Complete Edition): 63 Sonnets from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets, influenced by John Milton and Edmund Spenser, and one of the greatest lyric poets in English Literature, alongside William Shakespeare”, p.345, e-artnow

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• The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

  Jacques Delors

  Aggravation, Unions, May

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• All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Aggravation, Office, Effort

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• What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

  Cao Cao

  Hands, Aggravation, Enemy

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• I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

  Peter L. Berger

  Aggravation, Organization, People

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• Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Aggravation, Voice, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

  Jacques Delors

  Europe, Aggravation, France

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• If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Color, Aggravation, Numbers

  "Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow". Book by Alexander Kendrick, 1969.

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• The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

  Norm Dicks

  Environmental, Tools, Endangered Species Act

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• In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

  Daniel Boone

  Kentucky, Aggravation, Rivers

  John Filson, Daniel Boone (1793). “The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucky, and an introduction to the topography and natural history of that ... country. Also colonel Daniel Boon's narrative of the wars of Kentucky”, p.35

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• Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

  Philip Roth

  Aggravation, Greed, Volatility

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• We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments.

  Alexis Herman

  Technology, Government, Growth

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• The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Aggravation, Javascript, Kind

  "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.

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• The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Men, Religion

  1927 The Future of an Illusion.

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