Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
…shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline. — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“The gentle downward slope gets steeper and imperceptibly becomes an abyss.” — Tomas Tranströmer Copy Share Image
Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
People today read less, take fewer museum trips, and attend fewer concerts. Is that because these activities aren't as fun? The decline...… — Frank Partnoy Copy Share Image
When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how… — Nick Murray Copy Share Image
What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Most people spend less than 20 hrs a year learning about freedom, yet many wonder why it's in decline. Don't fight upstream.… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now. — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agenda, somehow believe that the future of… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication?… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty,… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability… — Paul L Wachtel Copy Share Image
Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
In the Latino community, the Trump campaign, even when it seemed it was a long shot he would be elected president, his… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
There is a connection waiting to be made between the decline in democratic participation and the explosion in new ways of communicating.… — Robin Cook Copy Share Image
“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first… — George Will 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… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor… — Harry Bruno Copy Share Image
I'm not running to manage the decline of this great country. I'm running to make real changes in D.C. — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
Housing is a relatively small sector of the economy, and its decline should be self-correcting. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The rise of the ecologist almost exactly parallels the decline of the naturalist. — Paul Sears Copy Share Image
“Love on the decline is hard to tell from love on the rise.” [From 'The Lady from Lucknow']” — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The honour of physical decline is waiting, and you have to get used to that reality. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline. — Talulah Riley Copy Share Image
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