#decline

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude. ↗

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Adam Ant

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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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

— Ray Dalio

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You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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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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