“I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me. Is it my age, I wonder, or the age… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
American money was never more sound, or banking more free, than 200 years ago. Since then, it's been a long steady decline… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And that decline could set… — Seth Copy Share Image
Ideas are the engines of progress. They improve people's lives by creating better ways to do things. They build and grow successful… — Alan Robinson Copy Share Image
The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and… — Felicity Huffman Copy Share Image
From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained… — Theodore Martin Copy Share Image
We are fast approaching a situation in which nobody will believe anything we [physicists] say in any matter that touches upon our… — Leo Kadanoff Copy Share Image
Even though it is the case that poverty is linked to AIDS, in the sense that Africa is poor and they have… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. As you may… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things,… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
For the first thirty years of my life I exercised very little, and I smoked cigarettes for ten or twelve years, and… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests… I think the employer who declines to… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Since loans are getting more expensive and there's less money available, we're seeing a commensurate decline in growth. Higher costs and lower… — Paul Achleitner Copy Share Image
I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
I hate pork rinds. I couldn't imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
All my career I've gone to teams on the decline. I went to Quebec when they were losing the Stastny brothers. I… — Ron Tugnutt Copy Share Image
We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. The more determinately (consciously)… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Stocks in the United States plunged in 2002 amid fears of war and terrorism, a weak economy, rising oil prices and dozens… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better. You can't worry about it,… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
nothing like a few restful weeks contemplating the decline of civilization to restore the humors. What I did on my summer vacation… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
One reason for the decline in moral values is that the world has invented a new, constantly changing and undependable standard of… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits… — Fujio Mitarai Copy Share Image
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