Decline Quotes - Page 6

• Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.

  Mark Zandi

  Fall, Home, Knives

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• Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model develops as the simple function of one money-variable over time, with a long-term trend which increases monotonically.

  John Carroll

  Moving, Simple, Economic Models

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.135, Taylor & Francis

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• The clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline of hegemonic powers.

  Robert Gilpin

  Space, Innovation, Growth

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.109, Princeton University Press

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• All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into different cycles.

  Frederick Lenz

  Soul, Enlightenment, Different

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• I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wisdom, Men, Justice

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• The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.

  J. B. Bury

  Progress, Atheism, Together

  J. B. Bury (2014). “A History of Freedom of Thought (Illustrated)”, p.141, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at first seemed a vessel with sweet wine For thirsty lips. So down the swift decline You went through sloven spirit, craven heart And cynic indolence. And here the art Of molding clay has caught you for the nonce And made your shame our shame ~ Your head in bronze!

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Sweet, Art, Wine

  Edgar Lee Masters, “On A Bust”

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• Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Joy, Forever

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII”

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• A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure.

  David Riesman

  Loss, America, Enthusiasm

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.162, Transaction Publishers

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• Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.

  James Buchan

  Egypt, World, Invasion

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• All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils.

  Theodor Adorno

  Sacrifice, Men, Culture

  Theodor W. Adorno (1982). “Prisms”, p.72, MIT Press

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• As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them.

  Robert Crumb

  Growing Up, Book, Kids

  "The R. Crumb Handbook". Book by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski, 2005.

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• If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect has put out the fire of persecution, as other fires are observed to smoulder before the light of the same.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Fire, Light

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.110

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• We’ve never had a decline in house prices on a nationwide basis. So, what I think what is more likely is that house prices will slow, maybe stabilize, might slow consumption spending a bit. I don’t think it’s going to drive the economy too far from its full employment path, though.

  Ben Bernanke

  Thinking, House, Employment

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• For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can they grow up before they grow old? If not, then they'll end their days in societies dominated by people with a very different worldview.

  Mark Steyn

  Growing Up, Real, Simple

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.20, Regnery Publishing

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• The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization.

  Pat Robertson

  Acceptance, Civilization, Lasts

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• The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows suffered a metamorphosis, going from the real and social issues to the hair-raising.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Real, Hair, Issues

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• Every major industry was once a growth industry. But some that are now riding a wave of growth enthusiasm are very much in the shadow of decline. Others that are thought of as seasoned growth industries have actually stopped growing. In every case, the reason growth is threatened, slowed, or stopped is not because the market is saturated. It is because there has been a failure of management.

  Theodore Levitt

  Growth, Marketing, Shadow

  Theodore Levitt (2008). “Marketing Myopia”, p.1, Harvard Business Press

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• The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.

  Felicity Huffman

  Pregnancy, Use, Way

  "Don't threaten women's health care" By Felicity Huffman, www.cnn.com. February 29, 2012.

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• General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.

  Michael Marmot

  Fall, Health, Class

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• We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Thinking, Years

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• Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

  Theodore Martin

  Art, Work, Believe

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• The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead of using its powers to offset the depression, it presided over a decline in the quantity of money by one-third from 1929 to 1933 ... Far from the depression being a failure of the free-enterprise system, it was a tragic failure of government.

  Milton Friedman

  Garden, Government, Investing

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• When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed.

  Robert Herrick

  Flower, May, Firsts

  Robert Herrick (1898). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers”

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• The press heralded this as a major accomplishment. The rush from the press as soon as it was announced suggested a high level of coordination. Like lemmings in a staged dive off a cliff, 'historic' became the media's rallying cry. There is nothing historic about the deal. In fact, news reports from November 2012 noted that China expected, in 2012, that its carbon emissions would begin to decline after 2030 because of factory upgrades, efficiencies, etc.

  Erick Erickson

  Media, Rallying Cry, Carbon Emissions

  Erick Erickson (2016). “The Wrong Type of Values”, p.60, Creators Publishing

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