#decline

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

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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

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

— Penelope Spheeris

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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners. ↗

— Daniel Boone

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There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

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