"Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our…" — Edward Young

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• The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed… — Ben Bernanke
• We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. — Jean de la Bruyere
• The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. — Ezra Pound
• The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present,… — Peter Drucker
• Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term,… — Dalai Lama
• In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another. — Unknown Author
• The danger of tautological propositions is considerable in discussions of the concept of normal profits. Because supernormal profits seem to… — Fritz Machlup
• From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what… — Pope Benedict XVI
• The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent.… — Jeff Cooper
• He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a… — Unknown Author

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