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“The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.”

Men Giving Management Excuse Dinner Time Management Decline Invitations Free Man

“Don't blame yourself for the declines, because one day you will credit yourself for the increases.”

“As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don't decline. Because with the fall of certain souls in this world, the world itself will collapse. These are the pillars which support it. They are few, but enough.”

World Long Soul Matter Enough Certain Fall Strong Support This World Decline Collapse Pillars

Book:Report to Greco

Source: Report to Greco

“The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature - of which spirit is a part - need fear no premature decline.”

Source: The practice of psychotherapy

“If we are to have a stabilized market demand, selling pressure should be maintained . . . perhaps increased . . .at the first sign of a decline in business. I know of no single way business managers can do more to stabilize market demand than through greater stabilization of sales and advertising expenditures.”

Ifs Knows Way Should Firsts Can Do Business Greater Demand Pressure Selling Advertising Managers Decline Expenditures

Author:Paul G. Hoffman

“Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.”

People World Felt Conditions Movement Determined Secure Fascism Decline Remedy Threatened Explosions Renaissance Decadence Old World

Book:My Life - Oswald Mosley

Source: My Life - Oswald Mosley

“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.”

Ifs Wells Happens Ready Investment Investing Investors Decline Recessions Not Ready Successful Investing

Author:Peter Lynch

“All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.”

Art Stories Journalism Decline Hype Aggravation Shrinking Landmarks

Author:Dick Schaap

“Man's nature is not a bit the same as wines. He loses flavour as his life declines. We drink the oldest wine that comes our way. Old men get nasty, old wines make us gay.”

Men Way Bits Loses Drink Gay Wine Old Man Decline Nasty Flavour Old Wine

Author:Alexis Sanchez

“He played with enormous energy and great fighting spirit. Offering him a draw was a waste of time. He would decline it politely, but firmly. "No, thank you," he would say and the fight would go on and on and on.”

Spirit Fighting Energy Goes On Waste Draws Chess Enormous Wasting Time Offering Decline Fighting Spirit

Author:Lubomir Kavalek

“One common behavior of late Stage 3 [in the process of a company's decline] is when those in power blame other people or external factors- or otherwise explain away the data- rather than confront the frightening reality that the enterprise may be in serious trouble.”

People May Reality Process Leadership Common Company Trouble Stage Serious Behavior Late Blame Factors Data Enterprise Decline Frightening

Author:Susan Collins

“Who does not grow, declines.”

Doe Grows Growth Personal Growth Decline

Author:Hillel the Elder

“Every fair from fair sometime declines”

Failure Fairs Decline Love Poems Wedding Ceremony Best-love-poems .

Author:William Shakespeare

“It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.”

Kind Two Character Sports Cases Hero Horse Boxing Racing Ironic Decline Suitable Aggravation Horse Racing

Author:Dick Schaap

“The man in the street has unfortunately been sold the idea that the breakthrough cure for cancer is just around the corner... The very prospect of effective treatment seems so remote that it doesn't even enter into the speculative day-to-day conversation of people engaged in cancer research... New treatments have not produced any detectable decline in the total annual cancer mortality, even for children.”

“Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.”

“Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind eye to them, and pretend that the weapons are no longer a threat. We will not in any way tolerate the testing of nuclear weapons, or their manufacture, or their deployment.”

Way Mean Eye Turns Weapons Blind Strategy Threat Nuclear Decline Nuclear Weapons Tolerate Testing Deployment Blind Eyes Deterrence Nuclear Deterrence

Author:David Lange

“The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their fields; children return to school; violence against women declines; trade and economic activity resume; medical and other services become more accessible, and the international focus changes from relief to development and self-sufficiency. All this makes new wars less likely. It is a virtuous cycle that deserves nurture and support.”

“Money never declines. Money just moves.”

Moving Decline Banking

Author:Richard M. Kovacevich

“Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of the English tongue, as the medium of all modern communication, is so great that I can witness without a sigh the gradual decline of the Irish language.”

Heart I Can Language History Modern Communication Connected Tongue Superiors Mediums Witness Decline Sigh Utility Recollection Irishmen Modern Communication

Author:Daniel O'Connell

“England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile intention? We should sink to the level of a fifth rate Power, our Colonies would be stripped from us, our commerce would decline, famine and unemployment would stalk the land... I have yet to learn that the cause of peace can be served by rendering our country impotent.”

“Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.”

Knows Might Fall Leader History Labour Cheer Decline British History

Author:Noel Coward

“Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.”

Numbers Percent Suicide Terrorist Decline Fence Casualties Terrorist Attacks Bombers Suicide Bombers

Author:Silvan Shalom

“We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.”

Truth Answers Judging Circumstances Evidence Determine Judgement Comparison Decline Confrontation Circumstantial Evidence

Book:The Origin of Continents and Oceans

Source: The Origin of Continents and Oceans

“And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline.”

Thinking Security Capacity Decline Coalitions

Author:John Abizaid

“We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.”

Want Soul Whole Body Nations Party Claims Followers Decline Aggravation

Author:Franz von Papen

“We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.”

Has Beens Seems Age Spirit Church Grief Christianity Filled Embrace Determined Witness Buried Missionary Decline Reincarnation Zeal Bishops Burying Missionary Zeal

Author:Peter Akinola

“Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing about staff cutbacks and circulation declines, should embrace this book as a reminder of the highest ideals, and the absolute thrills, to be found in their profession. As for regular readers, Pulitzer's Gold offers marvelous storytelling, real-life adventures, and absolute proof that journalism can change our world for the better.”

“In light of the strong correlation between female education and demographic decline, a purely empirical perspective on Malala Yousafzai, the poster girl for global female education, may indicate that the Taliban's attempt to silence her was perfectly rational and scientifically justifiable.”

May Light Girl Strong Silence Perspective Female Rational Decline Posters Taliban Demographics Correlation Malala Female Education

Author:Theodore Beale

“Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for petroleum fuels, contributing to a decline in oil consumption in the United States in particular starting in 2006... The 93 billion liters of biofuels produced worldwide in 2009 displaced the equivalent of an estimated 68 billion liters of gasoline, equal to about 5 percent of world gasoline production.”

“A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic.”

Ifs Opportunity Left Hurt Behinds Picks Prepared Storm Routine Investors Decline Panic Left Behind Bargains January Great Opportunity Colorado Fleeing Blizzard

Book:Beating the Street

Source: Beating the Street

“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.”

Causes Economy Events Trade Productions Scales Decline Free Market Market Economy Large Scale

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“I am not satisfied that Darwin proved his point or that his influence in scientific and public thinking has been beneficial ... the success of Darwinism was accomplished by a decline in scientific integrity.”

Thinking Has Beens Influence Integrity Satisfied Accomplished Decline Beneficial Darwinism

Author:W. R. Thompson

“The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.”

Courses Ought Comfortable Advantage Shame Pursuit Manners Our Time Exception Cynical Decline Restraint Aggravation

Author:J. Irwin Miller

“If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely.”

Source: On the Manipulation of Money and Credit

“This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.”

Giving Helping Grows Support Diets Decline Cream Aggravation

Author:Du Fu

“What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad, it is a mere flowing of things following the development and decline attributes of the moment.”

Way Mean Moments Courses Development Mere Following Taoism Attributes Decline Tao

Author:Jian Yang

“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.”

Ifs Persons Stills Accepting Offers Insult Decline

Author:Steve Pavlina

“The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.”

Causes Influence Misery Appreciation Chiefs Isolation Faculty Decline Tact Alleviate Thoughtfulness

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“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.”

People Decline Civility

Author:Max De Pree

“Although it has been fashionable to deny it, anti-slavery doctrines began to appear in Christian theology soon after the decline of Rome and were accompanied by the eventual disappearance of slavery in all but the fringes of Christian Europe. When Europeans subsequently instituted slavery in the New World, they did so over strenuous papal opposition, a fact that was conveniently 'lost' from history until recently. Finally, the abolition of New World slavery was initiated and achieved by Christian activists.”

“Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.”

Difficult Decline Indivisible

Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did.”

Opportunity Lost Business Failing Organization Errors Critical Decline Omission Lost Opportunity

Author:Russell L. Ackoff

“As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The adoption of a noble sentiment, or the insertion of a borrowed ornament, may sometimes display so much judgment as will almost compensate for invention; and an inferior genius may, without any imputation of servility, pursue the paths of the ancients, provided he declines to tread in their footsteps.”

Source: The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous

“Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.”

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

“The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire. . . . Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, one promising a revitalization of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age.”

“When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.”

Country Body Fall Born Steps Goodness Chaos Forgotten Decline Tao Piety Cleverness Filial Filial Piety

Author:Laozi

“President Obama flew to China a few days ago and announced a joint environmental pact with the communist regime. The United States will reduce its carbon emissions substantially over the next 11 years. China will do absolutely nothing but hope that its emissions decline after 2030.”

Source: The Wrong Type of Values

“The press heralded this as a major accomplishment. The rush from the press as soon as it was announced suggested a high level of coordination. Like lemmings in a staged dive off a cliff, 'historic' became the media's rallying cry. There is nothing historic about the deal. In fact, news reports from November 2012 noted that China expected, in 2012, that its carbon emissions would begin to decline after 2030 because of factory upgrades, efficiencies, etc.”

Source: The Wrong Type of Values

“It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.”

Doe Sleep Poor Wonder Failing Invites Decline Subconscious Naps Reverie

Author:Gaston Bachelard

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