#decline

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero. ↗

— Dick Schaap

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Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis. ↗

— Silvan Shalom

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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ↗

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

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Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

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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

#been #college #consider #consideration #declined

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

— Ezra Pound

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Over the last 15 years or so, Manchester has undergone huge transformation - from a city in decline and on its knees to one that is growing, vibrant and confident. ↗

— Lucy Powell

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The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival. ↗

— Lucy Powell

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