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• I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Caves, Protection

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• Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much is clear. Beyond that it's about how long you can put off the effects and compensate for them. Mistakes will crop in but you try to compensate for them with experience and hard work.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Mistake, Hard Work, Long

  "Vishy Anand: 'I found Bobby Fischer surprisingly normal and calm'". Interview with Sean Ingle, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence. I never saw her read a book again; but she referred to books often - as if they were shrines and cathedrals of learning that television had plundered and then abandoned.

  John Irving

  Book, Grandmother, Finals

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.275, Random House

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• Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Growth

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• A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Loss, Intellectual, World

  A World Split Apart — Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, www.orthodoxytoday.org. June 8, 1978.

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• Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Ancient, Ends, Should

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

  Anais Nin

  Visionaries, Use

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• I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Husband, Alzheimer's, Heartbreaking

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• Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.

  Steven Morrissey

  Years, Years Of Life, Listeners

  "Morrissey’s Letter On South America Explains Health Problem, Canceled Show", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2013.

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• The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.

  Jon Meacham

  Christian, Religious, Fall

  "Jon Meacham: Covering Conflict". Interview with Randall Balmer, ircpl.org. October 28, 2009.

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• What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.

  Michele Bachmann

  Loss, People, United States

  "Bachmann: The American People Are Concerned About 'The Rise Of The Soviet Union'" by Kyle Mantyla, www.rightwingwatch.org. August 18, 2011.

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• The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.

  Ben Bernanke

  Jobs, Home, Growth

  "Bernanke Says Fed to Keep Rates Low After Economy Strengthens". www.businessinsider.com. October 1, 2012.

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• We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Together, Sad Valentines Day

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• Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

  Adam Ant

  Records, Company, Record Companies

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• It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.

  Graydon Carter

  Years, America, Age

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• As long as we decline to allow sick uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.

  Gail Collins

  Lying, Long, People

  "Senseless or Sensible?". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 27, 2012.

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• In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Party, Your Side

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• If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.

  Ray Dalio

  Country, Currency, Given

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• Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

  Brian Eno

  Impact, Shock, Inevitable

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• Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Country, Pakistan, Diaspora

  "The Pakistan election has given me hope that one day the country can once again become my home" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2008.

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• Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'

  Eric Liu

  America, Worry, Six

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• I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

  George McGovern

  Country, Thinking, Government

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• A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Civilization, Obsession, Moments

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sweet, Engagement, Owing

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• I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.

  Barack Obama

  War, Men, Progress

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.322, Canongate Books

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