Hillel the Elder
Religious Leader, Scholar
"Who does not grow, declines."
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Decline
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Nick Murray
Author and Educator
"Declines are temporary, gains are permanent."
Benjamin Graham
Investor, Author
"It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%."
Alastair Campbell
Political Consultant, Author
"There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation."
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"I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them."
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"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile."
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"This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well."
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"Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline."
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"The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline."
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"At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen."
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"Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline."
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"When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution."
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"Societies in decline have no use for visionaries."
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"Every fair from fair sometime declines"
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"There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline."
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"As Pride increases, Fortune declines."
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"So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the measure of my inevitable decline. I repeat, this is no more than what a healthy person has to do in slower motion."
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"I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race."
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"All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains."
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"Apples taste sweetest when they're going."
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"Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch."
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"I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't."
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"Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline."
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"The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines."
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