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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.
Globally, manufacturing jobs are on the decline, simply because productivity growth has outpaced growth in demand.
If we decline to become set in our ways, that's good. But it doesn't always feel good. It can be very challenging.
It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.
Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.
Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.
Like so many Americans, I am sick and tired of watching the rapid decline of our culture right in front of our eyes.
And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline.
America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.
I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
Businesses grow and they don't change enough and they decline over time. Retailers do that on a bit of a faster cycle.
News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.
It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.
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 had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.
The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.
When I look at the work, if it speaks to me, I'll say 'yes' and if the work doesn't resonate with me, I'll politely decline.
To qualify as a recession, economic activity must decline in an absolute sense; a mere slowdown in real growth is not enough.
Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.
The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.
These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.
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.
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.
Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.
There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.
Stay-at-home mothers are building our future. And I feel like if we had more of them, our society would not be in such a decline.
In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility device for businesses.
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'
It is absurd to suggest a president whose party controls the Senate should jointly decline to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat - ever.
It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions.
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.
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
Hispanics' welfare consumption - and their affinity for the Democratic message - will decline over time as they climb the economic ladder.
It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.
Heard someone say, 'I can't wait until I can finally say I've made it.' The day you think you've 'made it' is the day you begin your decline.
Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.
I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.
Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing but decline for decades.
We start to decline as humans and, particularly, as athletes right around 25 years old. If you're real lucky, you might push that to 27 or 28.
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.