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If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline. ↗

— Ray Dalio

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It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline. ↗

— David Limbaugh

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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

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First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

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In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

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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

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A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

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In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

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Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards. ↗

— Saskya Pandita

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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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