Quotes with decline

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  • Bill Goldberg After you ride a roller coaster that's been going up for a year and a half, and you reach the pinnacle and then dive straight down with no gradual decline, it's a little disorienting. I didn't know how to take losing.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush 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
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Bob Graham During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • George Santayana I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Luis Bunuel If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. ''Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order,'' I'd reply, ''so I can go on drinking and smoking!''
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Carol Loomis In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal sales of stock index futures by so-called portfolio insurers - whose investment strategies depended entirely on these derivatives - greatly exacerbated the 500-point market decline.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • John Keats Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • James Thurber My opposition [To Interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Marilyn Ferguson Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
    Marilyn Ferguson
    American author, editor and public speaker (1938 - 2008)
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  • Aristotle Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Luis Bunuel The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Andrew Grove 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.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • Campbell Brown This must be such a relief for the TV executives managing a business in decline, suffering from a thousand cuts from social media and other new platforms. Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Mme de Stael When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
    Mme de Stael
    French-Swiss novelist and essayist (1766 - 1817)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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