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«There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.»
Author: Andy Grove
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«The aristocracy is in decline in the City, and the cloth-cap professionals are in the ascent. And we will take over.»
«My opposition [To Interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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«I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it -- yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.»
Author: Orson Welles
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«I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination»
Author: Scott Adams
(Cartoonist)
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«Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.»
«Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.»
«Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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decline, degenerate, degenerated, degenerating, democracies, republics
«Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ''ugly.'' His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride -- they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«Students should acquire human values, in addition to their scholastic, intellectual and other attainments. It is the decline in human values that accounts for the degradation of human beings in the country today.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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accounts, attainments, decline, scholastic
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