#decline

I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies. ↗

— Josiah Warren

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The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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

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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age. ↗

— Peter Akinola

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Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline. ↗

— Jane Byrne

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The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

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

— Jack Steinberger

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. ↗

— Aristotle

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The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

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