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The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change. -- Toshihiko Fukui
Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That's inflation. -- W. Edwards Deming
Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths. -- Pythagoras
Declining welfare rolls and increasing work participation rates demonstrate that Missouri is moving people away from welfare dependency and into jobs. -- Mel Carnahan
It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it. -- Peg Bracken
Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world. -- Richard Lugar
"No" is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you... Declining to hear "no" is a signal that someone is either seeking control or refusing to relinquish it. -- Gavin de Becker
Although everyone does benefit from lower-priced goods and services, people also care greatly about the chance to be productively employed and the quality of their work. Declining employment opportunities feel real and immediate; the rise in real incomes brought by lower prices does not. -- Michael Spence
Avarice is the vice of declining years. -- George Bancroft
A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest. -- John McCarthy
I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust. -- Christopher Gadsden
I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years. -- John McAfee
Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. -- Dave Barry
We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives. -- Camille Paglia
Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics. -- Robert Teeter
Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them. -- Camille Paglia
People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values. -- Al Franken
There are several silver linings on the horizon. The current account deficits in Spain and Portugal are declining because they have become more competitive and they're exporting more. -- Wolfgang Schauble
When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby to save a marriage. -- Adam Davidson
The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues. -- James Wolcott
The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we're not going to have the population. -- Susan Oliver
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. -- Joseph Addison
Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram. -- Larry Craig
Certain media-related developments in the country are raising questions regarding its objectivity and credibility. Paid news and the declining roles of the editors and their editorial freedom is posing a major threat to the Indian media. -- Mohammad Hamid Ansari
From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing. -- Noam Chomsky
Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting rid of the bad apples and declining opportunities that bring instant wealth at the cost of selling one's soul. -- Vivek Wadhwa
There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem. -- Aubrey de Grey
But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems. -- Jonah Goldberg
Heroine' is about a declining and imbalanced superstar - a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could carry a role like this. I have given 200 per cent to this role. She's a very complex character, very aggressive, manipulative and bold, yet she's very fragile. -- Kareena Kapoor Khan
If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high. -- Al Gore
If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama. -- William J. Clinton
Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be. -- Viggo Mortensen
Sharks are declining globally ... -- Barbara Block
The American dream itself is declining. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry. -- Margaret Thatcher
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility. -- Bruce Jackson
The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts. -- Diana Palmer
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes. -- Gore Vidal
The economy in Gaza is declining because Gaza is controlled by a terror regime. -- Ayelet Shaked
The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night. -- E. M. Forster
Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting. -- Tom Robbins
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. -- Plato
Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on." -- Jayne Anne Phillips
Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy. -- Edward Gibbon
Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves. -- Pliny the Elder
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline -- Mikhail Botvinnik
Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama. -- Rush Limbaugh
Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage. -- Daniel Gilbert
If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining. -- David Korten
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing. -- Bruce Sterling
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It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore. -- M.I.A.
California's economy is declining so rapidly that candidates are asking 'Are you better off now then you were four minutes ago?' -- Craig Kilborn
While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships. -- Tom Brokaw
Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary. -- Rem Koolhaas
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In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining. -- Noam Chomsky
During Governor Jennifer Granholm's administration, Michigan has experienced job losses, declining personal incomes, diminishing home values, and the highest unemployment rate in the nation. -- Tim Walberg
It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries. -- Glenn Greenwald
As whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion? -- John Tanton
Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media. -- Bernie Sanders
Institutional United Methodism in America has given up on cities and given up on young people, so no surprise we are declining by nearly 100,000 annually. -- Mark Tooley
North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks. -- Paul Watson
Gladstone .. spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question, ... -- W. C. Sellar
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations. -- Winston Churchill
She didn't want to alienate herself from the very wealthy man that was about to offer her a job by declining the polite offer of a drink. -- S.A. Tawks
A top geneticist at Stanford says human intelligence is declining. You know what that means? We are seeing Congress at its smartest and most effective right now. -- Jay Leno
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper. -- Erica Jong
I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day, when he is highest, none at all. -- Joseph Hall
Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up. -- Leslie Moonves
And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically. -- Samuel P. Huntington
C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly strong for the basic system-type things. -- Dennis Ritchie
We have a reversal of a longstanding trend, from rising inequality across nations and constant or declining inequality within nations, to declining inequality across nations and rising inequality within them. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Ann Taylor - great name, great real estate, shitty business. Gap -great name, great real estate, declining business. J.Crew - Hellooo? Great name, better fashion image than the Gap. -- Millard Drexler
After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times. -- Marianne Williamson
That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine. -- Charles Babbage
British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question. -- W. C. Sellar
A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. -- Philip K. Dick
Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining. -- Mark Kennedy
There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them. -- Iain Sinclair
But every time new powers emerge they have to find their balance. New powers are emerging, old powers are declining. It's not that process that's dangerous, it's the emerging position that's dangerous. -- George Friedman

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