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Heard someone say, 'I can't wait until I can finally say I've made it.' The day you think you've 'made it' is the day you begin your decline.
J. J. Watt
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Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.
Jane Byrne
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Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline
Mikhail Botvinnik
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
Ludwig von Mises
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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
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Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.
Nick Murray
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If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.
Steve Pavlina
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The standard of living of the average American has to decline.
Paul Volcker
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Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.
Benjamin Graham
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The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
Norm Dicks
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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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A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
William Graham Sumner
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When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate.
Richard Heinberg
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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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Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.
Robert Payne
19.
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
Alastair Campbell
21.
Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?
Peter Greenaway
22.
While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.
Jasmine Guinness
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We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, it’s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect it.
Max De Pree
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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.
Colin Wilson
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This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well.
Murray Walker
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The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.
Howard Baker
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When I look at the work, if it speaks to me, I'll say 'yes' and if the work doesn't resonate with me, I'll politely decline.
Phylicia Rashad
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We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.
Marco Rubio
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Margaret Thatcher - a woman I greatly admire - once said that she was not content to manage the decline of a great nation. Neither am I. I am prepared to lead the resurgence of a great nation.
Carly Fiorina
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Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
Dan Buettner
32.
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
Brian Eno
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I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.
Josiah Warren
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It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
Eberhard Weber
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Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose.
Meg Rosoff
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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.
Philip Roth
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I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
Demosthenes
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At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
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Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.
Penelope Spheeris
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
Adam Ant
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Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.
Penelope Spheeris
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Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.
John Ruskin
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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.
Douglas Adams
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My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.
Ludwig von Mises
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But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.
Pete Seeger
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I was never a believer in decline.
Max Gallo
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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.
Donald Miller
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On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.
Dorothy L. Sayers