#decline

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline. ↗

— Andy Grove

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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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Snooker players go into steady decline and lose their intensity after a while. But I will have real purpose the next five years. I want to prove people wrong and win a lot more tournaments. ↗

— John Higgins

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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

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I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

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It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age. ↗

— Peter Akinola

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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

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I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

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