Decline Quotes - Page 23

• Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.

  Samuel Garth

  Running, Lines, Firsts

  Sir Samuel Garth, Thomas Tickell (1822). “The Poems of Garth, and Tickell”, p.48

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• I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We may differ in form and particulars in our religious faith. Those are matters that are sacred to each of our inner sanctuaries. It is our privilege to decline to argue them. Their real demonstration is the lives that we live.

  Herbert Hoover

  Faith, Religious, Real

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• We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fall, Inspiration, People

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.76, Cambridge University Press

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• To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Children, Thinking

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.

  Martin Feldstein

  Country, Moving, Adverse Effects

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• The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their fields; children return to school; violence against women declines; trade and economic activity resume; medical and other services become more accessible, and the international focus changes from relief to development and self-sufficiency. All this makes new wars less likely. It is a virtuous cycle that deserves nurture and support.

  Kenneth Bacon

  Children, War, School

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• I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to "Hamlet" on the grounds that I knew who won.

  Quentin Crisp

  Years, Age, Rooms

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 12, 1968.

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• I hate pork rinds. I couldn’t imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Hate, Race, Pigs

  "Q&A – Joel Kinnaman (Stephen Holder)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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• Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics.

  Archie Kalokerinos

  Children, Vaccines, Fever

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• I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

  Bill Keller

  Thinking, Names, Dollars

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• When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when people who earn less than average have the deficiency , or the greater part of it, turned over to them in hand-outs and doles, the production of all must sharply decline; for the energetic and able who lose their incentive to produce more than the average, and the slothful and unskilled lose their incentive to improve their condition.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Average, Hands, People

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.122, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Determination, Funny Things, Want

  The Mixture as Before "The Treasure" (1940)

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• You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.

  Narciso Rodriguez

  Selling Products, Years, Two

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• The honour of physical decline is waiting, and you have to get used to that reality.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Waiting, Used

  "What I Talk about When I Talk about Running". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 15, 2007.

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• We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

  George W. Bush

  Mistake, Book, Home

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• In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because of a real thing: the actual, concrete decline in violent crime that started in the early 90s and which appears to be permanent. America is simply a safer place than it used to be, and looks set to stay that way.

  Kevin Drum

  Real, America, Looks

  "Our Obsession With Mass Incarceration May Finally Be Ebbing" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 2, 2015.

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• The investor with a portfolio of sound stocks should expect their prices to fluctuate and should neither be concerned by sizable declines nor become excited by sizable advances. He should always remember that market quotations are there for his convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

  Benjamin Graham

  Taken, Sound, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Civilization, Trying, Study

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• I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.

  E. B. White

  Believe, Society, Machinery

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• What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

  Randy Newman

  Song, Years, Consistency

  "Randy Newman: 'I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth'" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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• I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race.

  Winston Churchill

  Race, Degenerates, Halt

  Winston Churchill's remarks as Home Secretary in a 1910 Departmental Paper (the original document is in the collection of Asquith's papers at the Bodleian Library in Oxford); later quoted in Clive Ponting "Churchill", 1995.

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• Money never declines. Money just moves.

  Richard M. Kovacevich

  Moving, Banking

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• Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.

  Bernard Baruch

  Land, Cities, Roots

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• While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.

  Jasmine Guinness

  Cities, Towns, Farmers

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• In the larger scheme of things, God has commonly effected this purifying by revival or judgement. Strange though it may seem, there are distinct similarities between the ways of God in revival and in judgment... Because of His very nature, God cannot and will not permit spiritual decline to continue unchecked. He is ever halting and reversing the trend of the times by means of revival - or judgment. Where His people are not prepared for the one, they shut themselves up to the other.

  Arthur Wallis

  Spiritual, Mean, People

  "In the Day of Thy Power: The Spiritual Principles of Revival".

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