I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?
It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.
But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.
The success of Darwinism was accomplished by a decline in scientific integrity.
The rise of the ecologist almost exactly parallels the decline of the naturalist.
What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat
I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline.
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.
When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the unspeakable horrors of the middle passage. Christian slaveholders treated their slaves as they did the cattle in their fields: they worked them, scourged them, mated them , parted them, and sold them at will. Abolition came with the decline in religious belief, and largely through the efforts of those who were denounced as heretics.
Alzheimer's usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress.
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.
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.
The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy that keeps expanding until it bursts, leading to economic decline. Or we can adopt Plan B and be the generation that stabilizes population, eradicates poverty, and stabilizes climate. Historians will record the choice, but it is ours to make.
I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.
