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Declines are temporary, gains are permanent. -- Nick Murray
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines. -- Dag Hammarskjold
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The payroll tax is affecting sales. It's causing sales declines. -- Fred DeLuca
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. -- Ezra Pound
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable. -- Brian Eno
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things. -- Edward Cocker
This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well. -- Murray Walker
With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures. -- Ernst Engel
For some reason, ever since I was a little kid, I wake with the most energy of the day, and it slowly declines from there. -- Derek Sivers
You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets. -- Peter Lynch
Sector-specific price declines, uncomfortable as they may be for producers in that sector, are generally not a problem for the economy as a whole and do not constitute deflation. -- Ben Bernanke
Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines. -- Brian Skerry
For all of us who have been involved in the recovery efforts to bring back and strengthen wild salmon runs, we fear that this change in policy could lead to further declines in these wild stocks. -- Norm Dicks
But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries. -- Martin Feldstein
The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses. -- Ben Bernanke
Since the majority of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean, not to mention much of the world's protein, it is not an exaggeration to say that when our oceans' health declines, our very survival is at risk. -- Brian Skerry
The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality. -- Felicity Huffman
Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may be especially true for seniors, as the ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin declines with age. -- Andrew Weil
The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you're headed for the unemployment lines. Your market value declines as you age, and it becomes harder and harder to get a job. -- Vivek Wadhwa
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built. -- N. T. Wright
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
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. -- George Saunders
The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficult, the most crowded... I'm a top 1,000 blogger, not a top 100 blogger, and I get hundreds of pitches by email every week. Most of them I don't even see because my assistant declines them. -- Timothy Ferriss
I feel lucky I didn't become that newspaper cartoonist I wanted to be because in the U.S. so many newspapers have suffered circulation declines, and some have folded. What's fun about being an author is I reach a much bigger audience, and there is something special about launching a book you've penned. -- Jeff Kinney
Who does not grow, declines. -- Hillel the Elder
As Pride increases, Fortune declines. -- Benjamin Franklin
Money never declines. Money just moves. -- Richard M. Kovacevich
Time goes by: reputation increases, ability declines. -- Dag Hammarskjold
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands. -- E. B. White
Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. -- Edward Young
In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos -- John Warren Kindt
Sexual desire declines after four to seven years. That's been proven. -- Volkmar Sigusch
...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth. -- Mohsin Hamid
You might be a redneck if The Salvation Army declines your mattress. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States -- Dennis Prager
The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines. -- Noam Chomsky
When a political organization loses contact with its origin, it declines and risks implosion. -- Roberto Esposito
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Don't blame yourself for the declines, because one day you will credit yourself for the increases. -- Craig Groeschel
The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful. -- Mason Cooley
If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another. -- Stanley Unwin
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do. -- Kurt Vonnegut
... Silene, who declines The garish noontide's blazing light; But when the evening crescent shines, Gives all her sweetness to the night.... -- Charlotte Turner Smith
Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void. -- Jerry Brown
We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence. -- Alfred Wegener
The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast. -- Peter Drucker
Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them. -- Nick Murray
If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio. -- Warren Buffett
The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive. -- Peter Drucker
The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign. -- Stefan Molyneux
The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage. -- Benjamin Graham
Bad things happen, but really bad things do not. Do buy the dips, especially the lowest quality securities when they come under pressure, because declines will quickly be reversed. -- Seth Klarman
Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails. -- Dalai Lama
Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five. -- Samuel Johnson
[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably. -- Abby May Alcott
[Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be shut up and a new order of things [will] begin. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume. -- Noam Chomsky
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man's nature is not a bit the same as wines. He loses flavour as his life declines. We drink the oldest wine that comes our way. Old men get nasty, old wines make us gay. -- Alexis Sanchez

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