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California's economy is declining so rapidly that candidates are asking 'Are you better off now then you were four minutes ago?' — Craig Kilborn

Cynicism is the besetting and venial fault of declining youth, and disillusionment its last illusion. — Francis Macdonald Cornford

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. — Dave Barry

For in a declining civilization it is often the old who see furthest and see with youngest eyes. — Olaf Stapledon

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

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry. — Margaret Thatcher

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

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing. — Bruce Sterling

Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths. — Pythagoras

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

Declining welfare rolls and increasing work participation rates demonstrate that Missouri is moving people away from welfare dependency and into jobs. — Mel Carnahan

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

I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust. — Christopher Gadsden

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility. — Bruce Jackson

In the Year 2000 due to the declining number of champions in the world, Wheaties will change its slogan to 'Breakfast of Sexual Deviants. — Conan O'Brien

The long-standing wisdom that everyone wins in a single world market has been undermined. Global trade, capital flows, and immigration are declining. — Roger Altman

Sharks are declining globally ... — Barbara Block

Deficit reduction is the demand of the financial institutions and the superrich, and in a rapidly declining democracy, that's what counts. — Noam Chomsky

I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years. — John McAfee

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night. — E. M. Forster

Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes. — Gore Vidal

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

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

Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting. — Tom Robbins

He talked about the struggling economy, rising inflation, and declining American power abroad. — George W. Bush

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. — Plato

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

The economy in Gaza is declining because Gaza is controlled by a terror regime. — Ayelet Shaked

Kindly and firmly, she refused to sleep with me. Not even a charity fuck. — Julian May

Avarice is the vice of declining years. — George Bancroft

If you want to fight against a declining trend, you've got to have a much bigger bazooka. — David Miliband

has given his reasons for declining a solicitor on the custody record. — Caroline Mitchell

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts. — Diana Palmer

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

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining. — David Korten

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest. — John McCarthy

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

Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves. — Pliny The Elder

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on. — Jayne Anne Phillips

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama. — Rush Limbaugh

Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy. — Edward Gibbon

The day is declining through the white afternoon to the long blue spring evening. He drives past a corner where someone is practicing on a trumpet — John Updike

in the evolution of a society, continued investment in complexity as a problem-solving strategy yields a declining marginal return. — Joseph A. Tainter

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.

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts. - WORDSWORTH. — George Eliot

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

Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage. — Daniel M. Gilbert