"History. The more of it you have the……" — John Updike
"History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline."
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339 Quotes by John Updike
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You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure...
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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity,…
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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
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I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my…
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In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
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Without rain, there would be no life.
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Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
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Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
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What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin…
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"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not…
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...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive.…
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More Decline Quotes
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
— Aristotle
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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the…
— Mary Astell
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike…
— Rowan Atkinson
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What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the…
— Michele Bachmann
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I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
— Scott Adams
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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
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number…
— Daniel Boone
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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
— Luis Bunuel
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It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the…
— Graydon Carter
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
— Adam Ant
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