#decline

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

#berkeley #declined #i #loyalty #oath

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace. ↗

— Paul Virilio

#civic #decline #drifting #effectiveness #fall

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#decline #heaven #i #invitation #ladder

The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#believers #calmer #christian #creates #decline

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline. ↗

— Philip Roth

#downside #fear #gradually #greed #itself

We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#american #american century #another #bring #century

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

— Warren De la Rue

#decline #goes #laws #must #nature

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

#adorn #among #any #away #beautiful

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ↗

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

#days #decline #first #immortality #life