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Letter "D" » declining
«Avarice is the vice of declining years»
Author: George Bancroft
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declining
«People talk about my image, like I come in two dimensions, like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind, like what I happen to be wearing the day that someone takes my picture is my new statement for all womankind»
Author: Ani Difranco
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
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People,
Women
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come in, declining, dimensions, lipstick, my image, My picture, statement, talking picture, two dimensions, wearing, womankind
«Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.»
«He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.»
«Keep up prayer from the declining of the sun till the darkness of the night and the morning recitation; surely the morning recitation is witnessed. (The Children of Israel 17.78)»
«In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind -- too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. . . . East and West do not distrust each other because we are armed; we are armed because we distrust each other. And our differences are not about weapons but about liberty. . . . The most fundamental distinction of all between East and West (sic.) [is that] the totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship. The totalitarian world finds even symbols of love and of worship an affront.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
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affront, affronted, affronts, backwardness, communist, declining, distrust, East, health food, human health, sic, soviet, Soviet Union, symbols, technological, thwart, thwarting, thwarts
«As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasur»
«The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life»
«As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
amusing, declining, imparts, unbecoming
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