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Letter "T" » The Decline
«You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.»
«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.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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«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
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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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«We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.»
«The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.»
«We think there is a parallel between the Federal involvement in education and the decline in quality over recent years.»
«The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief»