Decline Quotes

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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;… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Customers don't always know what they want. The decline in coffee-drinking was due to the fact that most of the coffee people bought was stale… — Howard Schultz
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,… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
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… — Ron Tugnutt
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. — Marilyn Ferguson
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
Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair. — Terence McKenna
Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want. — Alan Sugar
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… — George Carlin
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
Thank you for your kind invitation. However, as a gay man, I must decline. I am deeply troubled by the current attitude toward and treatment… — Wentworth Miller
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… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
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… — Dalai Lama
To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable… — Ludwig von Mises
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been… — Douglas MacArthur
The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was… — Milton Friedman
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like… — Hugh Miller
She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not… — John Kenneth Galbraith
...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or… — Lyndon B. Johnson

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