The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together. — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity. — Warren De la Rue Copy Share Image
Sara held up a hand. 'How exactly did you "decline" his offer?' 'By slitting his throat. — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
One thing I take great pride in is that my case was the one that started the decline of the Mafia. — Joseph D. Pistone Copy Share Image
At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad, it is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
In the service of the Lord, it is not where you serve but how. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I got a feeling that after six years of disappointment, of mediocrity and decline, a slow course correction is not what voters… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a… — Norm Dicks Copy Share Image
As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Now, on the longest day, light triumphs, and yet begins the decline into dark. We turn the Wheel for we have planted… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive… — Charles P. Kindleberger Copy Share Image
When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Decline and Fall was a very depressing Evelyn Waugh novel, I think it was his first. I didn't get it at all,… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I think of what's happening in Detroit as part of something that's much bigger. Most people think of the decline of the… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes,… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
Although it has been fashionable to deny it, anti-slavery doctrines began to appear in Christian theology soon after the decline of Rome… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration. — John Prescott Copy Share Image
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