Decline Quotes - Page 6

• As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don't decline. Because with the fall of certain souls in this world, the world itself will collapse. These are the pillars which support it. They are few, but enough.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Strong, Fall, Long

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Investment, Wells

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• A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic.

  Peter Lynch

  Hurt, Opportunity, Storm

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire. . . . Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, one promising a revitalization of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Spiritual, Land, Space Flight

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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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• If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to write. The number of people wanting to be novelists is probably not going to decline - but certainly the number of people who are going to be able to make a living as authors is going to dramatically decrease.

  Scott Turow

  Passion, Writing, Simple

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• The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services...America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially defined. The former great periods of prosperity in America averaged eleven years. On this basis we now have three more years to go before the tailspin.

  Stuart Chase

  Depression, Years, America

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• In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The reason is, that valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, Spring, War

  "Florentine Histories" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book V, chapter 1, 1526.

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• No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Self, Liberty

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• The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Educational, Fall, Ignorance

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• All my career I've gone to teams on the decline. I went to Quebec when they were losing the Stastny brothers. I went to Edmonton after they lost Gretzky and Messier. I went to Anaheim when it was an expansion team. I came to Montreal after they'd won the Cup and were headed down. I was beginning to think it was me.

  Ron Tugnutt

  Brother, Team, Hockey

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• Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Funny, Motivational, Mean

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

  Peter Drucker

  Innovation, Growth, Age

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.183, Routledge

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• Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Psychedelic, Evolution

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• Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.

  Alan Sugar

  Business, Market Leaders, People

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• When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make a contribution to.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Civilization, Used

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Life, Noon, Existence

  Walter Savage Landor (1891). “Imaginary Conversations”

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• As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make me happy to say yes. However, as a gay man, I must decline.

  Wentworth Miller

  Country, Attitude, Gay

  "Wentworth Miller Comes Out as Gay in Letter Slamming Russia's LGBT Crackdown" by Aaron Couch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 21, 2013.

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• At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

  T. S. Eliot

  Past, Silence, Would Be

  Collected Poems (1936) "Burnt Norton" pt. 2

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• Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Running, Wisdom

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• Must, bid the Morn awake!
  Sad Winter now declines,
  Each bird doth choose a mate;
  This day's Saint Valentine's.
  For that good bishop's sake
  Get up and let us see
  What beauty it shall be
  That Fortune us assigns.

  Michael Drayton

  Valentines Day, Winter, Bird

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• The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.

  Lev Grossman

  Country, Book, House

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• In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply at the regional level. For the first time in history, grain production is dropping in a geographic region with nothing in sight to arrest the decline. Each day now brings 10,000 more people to feed and less irrigation water with which to feed them.

  Lester R. Brown

  Sight, People, Water

  "This will be the Arab world's next battle" by Lester R. Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

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• We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it, to his home, to his centers of entertainment: a total war. It is necessary to prevent him from having a moment of peace, a quiet moment outside his barracks or even inside; we must attack him wherever he may be, make him feel like a cornered beast wherever he may move. Then his moral fiber shall begin to decline, but we shall notice how the signs of decadence begin to disappear.

  Che Guevara

  War, Moving, Home

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.174, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does but through what he accepts. He must wait for the gift of love, and love can only be received as a gift... One must wait for it, let it be given to one. And one cannot become wholly man in any other way than by being loved, by letting oneself be loved... If he declines to let himself be presented with the gift, then he destroys himself.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Christian, Inspiration

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