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My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it. — Soren Kierkegaard

In our decline we live in the shadow of giants. — Ian McEwan

If there is some divine plan that requires my survival and the deaths of all those children in day care, I respectfully decline to participate. — Tim Kreider

These are the rewards of maturity, to be enjoyed only as we decline. We — Christopher Hitchens

God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives 'declining'. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

However, as commercialization of microfinance deepens, the proportion of female clientele of microfinance institutions will decline steadily. — Godwin Ehigiamusoe

The Church is going to have to recognise that secularisation is not the cause of their decline, it is the result of it. — Keith Porteous Wood

The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with. — Ian McKellen

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. — Sigmund Freud

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards. — Saskya Pandita

One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties. — Charles A. Reich

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

At best you have one of those debilitating conditions which come in many forms, and which some people decline to admit actually exist. — Julian Barnes

The biggest threat to American power in the long run is the persistent decline in its middle class standard of living today. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them. — Penelope Spheeris

The Rome he has been trained to serve, the Rome of Augustus and Germanicus, was gone. In its place stood Neronopolis, ruled by a megalomaniac brat. — James Romm

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline — Mikhail Botvinnik

When gross public debt exceeds 90 percent of GDP, economic growth tends to decline considerably. — Kevin McCarthy

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. — Morrissey

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry. — Mark Rydell

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat — Satish Kumar

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all. — Martin Parr

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. — Logan Pearsall Smith

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins. — Theodore Martin

Dartmouth is the place I've devoted my life to, so it's very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual strength of the institution. — Jon Appleton

Islam takes advantage of two structural flaws that exist in the Western society. One is political correctness and other is the decline of morality. — Ali Sina

Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that. — Penelope Spheeris

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist. — Tom Wopat

The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years. — Steven Pinker

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify. — Alan Hirsch

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens. — James Cook

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government. — George McGovern

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

Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime. — Jami Attenberg

Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives. — Neil Diamond

Revival is renewed interest after a period of indifference or decline. He wants to wake us up, to refresh our faith - to fire us up again. — James MacDonald

Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline. — George Jones

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade ... there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event. — Nathaniel Branden

if "over the hill" means the beginning of a person's decline, a straight woman is over the hill as soon as she's old enough to drink. — Christian Rudder

Pain is a breach in the walls of decline and stagnation. — Bryant McGill

Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity. — Warren De La Rue

Our terminal decline into old age and death stems from the fine print of the contract that we signed with our mitochondria two billion years ago. — Nick Lane

Was humanity, or even life itself, that significant in the grand scheme of things? Wasn't humanity's survival directly related to nature's decline? — M.R. Mathias

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline. — Jane Byrne

I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying. — Penelope Spheeris

They looked at me, in my hippie garb, with horror and disgust, the Decline of Western Civilisation suddenly plopped in their midst. — Paul Monette

Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply. — Edmund Phelps

When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline. — Joe Whitney

The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol. — Howard Baker

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose. — Walter Savage Landor

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

To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children. — Erma Bombeck

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. — Winston Churchill

It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline. — Graydon Carter

There is a great deal of ruin in a nation. — Adam Smith

Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want. — Alan Sugar

One of the main causes of our artistic decline lies beyond doubt in the separation of art and science. — Gino Severini

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick. — Alastair Campbell

I broke in swiftly. "How kind of you to renew your offer, your Grace. But I am afraid I must decline. Brisbane is the man for me. — Deanna Raybourn

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself. — Susan Sontag

They are asking that everyone dress up as the decline of the printed word in a society reverting to a state of brainless animality. — Joseph Fink

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

Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline. — R. J. Reynolds

The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline. — Henry David Thoreau

Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair. — Terence McKenna

You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline — Phil Gramm

Old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled — Joseph Conrad

...the Supreme Court made several liberal decisions in the 1970s, indicating the moral decline of the nation as a whole. — Kurt Grussendorf

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. — Stephen Bayley

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
— Luis Bunuel

Growth in the number of humans is associated with decline in humanity. — Meeta Ahluwalia

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. — Pierre De Coubertin

A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal. — Ted Turner

Most postmodernists blame the decline of the dracono-bardic tradition on the sudden and soaring popularity of the Beatles. — E.K. Johnston

If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts. — Martial

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods. — Charles Nodier

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. — Jean De La Bruyere

Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles. — Roger Babson

Ruthless is the temper of royalty; How much better to live among the equals.Let me decline in a safe old age. The very name of the "middle way". — Euripides

It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%. — Benjamin Graham

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline. — Henry Ward Beecher

Today you are walking in Paris the women are all steeped in blood
It was and I'd rather not remember it was at beauty's decline — Guillaume Apollinaire

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live. — Adam Ant

The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most. — Irving Fisher

I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline. — SonReal

But that closing night at Carnegie was without a hint of decline. — Walter Terry

The entire empire has sunk into a quagmire of extravagance from which they cannot extricate themselves. — Liu Cixin

Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline. — Saadi

When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make a contribution to. — George Carlin

I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit. — Peter Thiel

You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going. — Cyril Clarke

We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings. — Eric Samuel Timm

The Romans saw loss of virtue all around them. The Victorians decried the decline in religiosity in the next generation. — Fareed Zakaria

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene. — Harold Bloom

I'm not running to manage the decline of this great country. I'm running to make real changes. — Bobby Jindal

This dramatic increase in the speed of information and the precipitous decline in critical thinking have been disastrous. — Bronwen Dickey

It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not. — Ryan Holmes

The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together. — J. B. Bury