Decline Quotes - Page 21

• The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.

  Charles Schumer

  Class, America, Income

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.

  Charles Schumer

  Class, Income, Needs

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Now, on the longest day, light triumphs, and yet begins the decline into dark. We turn the Wheel for we have planted the seeds of our own changes, and to grow we must accept even the passing of the sun Set Sail See with clear eyes See how we shine!

  Starhawk

  Eye, Dark, Light

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• Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

  Talulah Riley

  Thinking, Issues, Population

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth.

  Tom Johnson

  Loss, Self Worth, Darkness

  "Stress, depression and the CEO" by Rhonda Rowland, www.cnn.com. March 1, 2002.

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• [On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.

  Abby May Alcott

  Father, Wife, Verbs

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• Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, War, Hands

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• It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.It weepsfor the black people who think like white people.It weepsfor the Indians who think like settlers.It weepsfor the children who think like adults.It weepsfor the free who think like prisoners.Most of all, it weepsfor the cowgirls who think like cowboys.

  Tom Robbins

  Children, Thinking, Cowboy

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• Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

  Aristotle

  Education, Men, Years

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2118, Princeton University Press

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• The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.

  Charles P. Kindleberger

  Giving Up, Finals, Investing

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• The NSF study projected a shortfall of 675,000 scientists and engineers without considering the future demand for such individuals in the marketplace. It simply observed a decline in the number of 22-year-olds and projected that this demographic trend would result in a huge shortfall. This could be termed the supply-side theory of labor market analysis. But making labor market projections without considering the demand side of the equation doesn't pass the laugh test with experts in the field.

  Howard Wolpe

  Years, Numbers, Laughing

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• Establish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality, you unhinge all the principles that must preserve the limits of free constitutions.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Principles, Debt

  Alexander Hamilton (1973). “Papers”

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• In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Memorable, Long, Meals

  "Dr John Briffa assesses Sebastian Faulks' shopping basket". Interview with John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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• Something extraordinary is happening. Do you sense it? Truly, as obedience and morality decline in the world, the Lord is sending more exceptional spirits to earth. As a body they excel the average capacity of their forebears. Their potential for personal growth and positive contribution is enormous.

  Richard G. Scott

  Average, Growth, World

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• Who will argue that 98.6 Farenheit is the right temperature for man? As for me, I decline to do it. It may be that we are all actually freezing hence the pervading stupidity of mankind. At 110 or 115 degrees even archbishops might be intelligent.

  H. L. Mencken

  Intelligent, Men, Stupidity

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.213, Knopf

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• Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos. We, however, live in the firm conviction our times will see not the decline but the renaissance of the West. It is our proud hope and our unshakable belief Germany can make an imperishable contribution to this great work.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Europe, Light

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch.

  Mike Curran

  Artist, Bed, Wake Up

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• Most people spend less than 20 hrs a year learning about freedom, yet many wonder why it's in decline. Don't fight upstream. Instead, turn it around.

  Oliver DeMille

  Fighting, Years, People

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• While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.

  Henry Rollins

  Father, Believe, Civilization

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• All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Doctrine, Stills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1890*). “The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson...”

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• Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.

  Jim Cooper

  Oxygen, Blood, Law

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• Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

  Dan Buettner

  Way, Walking, Proven

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• Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.

  Tom Shales

  Christian, Civilization, Hungry Lion

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• I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Atheism, Hebrew, Accepting

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• I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Civilization, America

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