“If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Over the last 15 years or so, Manchester has undergone huge transformation - from a city in decline and on its knees… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Obviously it's true that as you go up the ranks, the number of women starts to decline. Whether that's because of 'self-deselection'… — Marianne Lake Copy Share Image
It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to change human nature. There will always be cranks and conspiracy theorists among us. But we can try to… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune… — Saadi Copy Share Image
I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think… — Eddie Campbell Copy Share Image
I am apoplectic that people no longer expect progress because for so long they have worn the clothes of decline. — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e.… — Phil Jones Copy Share Image
The easier sex gets, the less intimate every sexual act gets. In the Victorian period, a kiss was like a f -… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a… — Tom Wopat Copy Share Image
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than… — Jane Brody Copy Share Image
“Our politicians, by their words and policies, either expand or contract the frontiers of freedom. We the people either monitor and encourage… — Scott L. Vanatter Copy Share Image
As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems,… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Be hald, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all. There are to decline your nectared wine, But… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human… — Bob Graham Copy Share Image
It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without… — J. Irwin Miller Copy Share Image
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that. — Penelope Spheeris Copy Share Image
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