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The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'
These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.
If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.
Unfortunately, chivalry seems to be on the decline, but let's hope that manners can remain important. I, for one, will certainly be an evangelist with it.
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.
Of course I want people to show up to the concerts and I am sure for that to decline would be a difficult thing.
When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies
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.
Look the, the American worker has been losing - for decades now. We've seen manufacturing in decline here in the industrial Midwest.
When gross public debt exceeds 90 percent of GDP, economic growth tends to decline considerably.
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.
A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.
And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline.
We have experienced highly challenging global market conditions in the past quarter with significant steel price decline in all regions.
Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.
Businesses grow and they don't change enough and they decline over time. Retailers do that on a bit of a faster cycle.
Hispanics' welfare consumption - and their affinity for the Democratic message - will decline over time as they climb the economic ladder.
Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.
Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.
I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.
Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
Americans have seen the value of the dollar slowly decline due to the steady erosion of inflation.
There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.
When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate.
Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.
If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.
I had first-hand experience watching my father's health decline over the stretch of 13 years.
One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.
Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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.
The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most.
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.
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.
I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies.
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.
We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.
We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.
The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.
Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.
Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles.
It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
We tried our damnedest to make it a special entertainment, but I'll admit I'm a contributor to the decline in TV standards.
I am apoplectic that people no longer expect progress because for so long they have worn the clothes of decline.
Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
One of the main causes of our artistic decline lies beyond doubt in the separation of art and science.
The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.