#decline

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#decline #had #languages #their

The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline of empires has happened much faster than folks think. I believe that gold will be a far better bet in 20 years than the dollar. ↗

— Tom Winnifrith

#believe #bet #better #britain #change

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#journalist

What I'm primarily saying,' he says, 'is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing. We learned a lesson, you and I. We personally grew. Gratitude for this growth is an appropriate response. Gratitude, and being careful never to make the same mistake twice. ↗

— George Saunders

#narcissism #personal-growth #personal-growth

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live. ↗

— Adam Ant

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For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe. ↗

— Charles Vest

#administration #been #between #both #budget

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

#change #company #decline #dramatically #history

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

#decline #five #go #i #intensity

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

— Patricia Highsmith

#decline #i #know #mine #movies

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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