Decline Quotes - Page 2

• In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Aging, Periods, Certain

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• A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

  William Graham Sumner

  Aggravation, Gutters, Process

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.114, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Men, Religion

  1927 The Future of an Illusion.

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• I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, America, Citizens

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• China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good.

  Mark Mobius

  Relationship, Aggravation, Differences

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• 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

  Life, Beautiful, Aggravation

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)

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• This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.

  Daniel Yergin

  War, Loss, Aggravation

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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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• I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Aggravation, Fleas, Flea Markets

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• Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Movie, Rights, Aggravation

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• There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

  Mark Rydell

  Technology, Aggravation, Industrialization

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• All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Aggravation, Language, Birth

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.44, Editorial MAXTOR

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• You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.

  Cyril Clarke

  Believe, Aggravation, People

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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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• The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Aggravation, Growth, Patterns

  "Chemistry: 1901-1921" by Nobel Foundation, (p. 166), 1966.

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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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• The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

  Luis Bunuel

  Depressing, Time, Alcohol

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• Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

  Silvan Shalom

  Suicide, Numbers, Bombers

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• 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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• Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

  Sakya Pandita

  Beauty, Men, Flames

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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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• Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Aggravation, Drug, Print

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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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• We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.

  Peter Akinola

  Grief, Missionary Zeal, Age

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• We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

  Franz von Papen

  Party, Aggravation, Soul

  "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, Volume 6, p. 3,

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