#decline

Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity. ↗

— Warren De la Rue

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There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#direct #direct proportion #evidence #industrialization #industry

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. ↗

— George Santayana

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Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. ↗

— George Saunders

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It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero. ↗

— Dick Schaap

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But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them. ↗

— Pete Seeger

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I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known. ↗

— Pete Seeger

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Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis. ↗

— Silvan Shalom

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It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous. ↗

— Robert Shea

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Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

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