Decline Quotes - Page 3

• The principle of investing is that by use you possess and gain, by disuse you decline and lose.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Aggravation, Gains, Use

  "Treasure: uncovering patterns and principles that create prosperity".

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• For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

  Christiane Amanpour

  Country, Aggravation, Murder

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• We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Life, Aggravation

  "Of The Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.

  John Prescott

  Moving, Aggravation, Administration

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• I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

  Josiah Warren

  Confused, Aggravation, Controversy

  Josiah Warren (1875). “True Civilization: A Subject of Vital and Serious Interest to All People; But Most Immediately to the Men and Women of Labor and Sorrow”, p.106

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• There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

  Andy Grove

  Missing You, Business, Next

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• If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies

  Patricia Highsmith

  Writing, Aggravation, People

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• If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Aggravation, Heaven, Ladders

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• It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

  Eberhard Weber

  Aggravation, Waiting, Audience

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• The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was produced by private enterprises in a profit-and-loss system. And losses were at least as important in weeding out failures, as profits in fostering successes. Let government succor failures, and we shall be headed for stagnation and decline.

  Milton Friedman

  Letting Go, Weed, Loss

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• I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.

  Scott Adams

  Aggravation, Hallucinations, Dilbert

  Scott Adams (2012). “Dilbert 2.0: The Dot-com Bubble: 1998 TO 2000”, p.187, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

  Mary Astell

  Aggravation, Steps, Sin

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.67, Cambridge University Press

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• It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Civilization, Aggravation, Long

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• Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

  Paul Virilio

  Fall, Science, Aggravation

  Paul Virilio (2005). “The Information Bomb”, p.2, Verso

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• The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Reading, Literature, Nations

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.109

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• Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Historical, Democracy

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• Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

  Robert Payne

  Civilization, Fragmentation

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Law, Aggravation

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• Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Aggravation, Able, Embarrassed

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• Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Aggravation, Found, Wanted

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• It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

  Dick Schaap

  Sports, Horse, Hero

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• The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Appreciation, Aggravation, Political

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• But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

  Martin Feldstein

  Aggravation, Dollars, Months

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• Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more.

  Martin Feldstein

  Mean, Years, Months

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• This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.

  Du Fu

  Aggravation, Giving, Support

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