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Oscar Wilde
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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Sigmund Freud
Our children continue to be healthier ... because our infant and adolescent mortality rates continue to decline.
National Center
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.
Arnold Toynbee
As the price of gas climbs, people's values decline.
Jeff Lenard
Today was the end of the quarter and that helped the overall decline.
Warren Meyers
At present, no decline in housing construction is evident in the data.
Michael Bazdarich
We've actually tracked a percentage decline in that category going back to 1996.
Candace Corlett
There was an almost an 80% decline one year from 640,000 vehicles to 200,000, and now it's grown back. Our share has grown a lot.
Rick Wagoner
It's not like it was unexpected. It was in decline.
John Bachman
Everywhere I know of, people complain about the decline in manners.
Deborah Durham
We don't know if the decline is going to be a gradual decline or a sharp decline.
Gregg Laskoski
If history is any indication, there is little the Bush administration can do to reverse this decline.
John Mueller
Obviously the area is making up for that decline.
Michael Wald
That has considered the decline in cigarette consumption and production.
Anggito Abimanyu
I really was thinking it was on the decline, steadily on the decline. From one day they're $2.39 another they're $2.43 and tomorrow, who knows what it will be.
Debbie White
I think we are looking for the trade gap to stabilize, not to decline.
Alan Levenson
This is not good. The decline in enrollment is something we have to grapple with.
Scott Patterson
That is pretty much the case all over [the country], and the Richmond area did have a decline.
Bill Mezger
We sort of mirror the state's decline.
Brandon Martin
I was concerned that you were searching for reasons to decline the petition.
Laurel Cox
Golf began to decline nationally.
John Lawton
That seems to be the trend most of the way around the globe, apart from Asia where there is a lot of BitTorrent. BitTorrent traffic levels are in decline.
Andrew Parker
He was beginning to see a decline in the respect for public schools and that bothered him.
Muriel Cooper
These 25 percent revenues are and will continue to decline.
Michael Francis
There's been a decline in the double standard. That's why you're seeing more of these cases.
David Finkelhor
It is a genuine shocker... I don't think anyone anticipated a decline of this magnitude.
Wayne Ayers
The trend in the last couple of years has been a decline in unemployment.
Shelley Allen
It's just unacceptable. Our property values will decline.
Janice Moore
That was based on a $6 decline in market returns but with a $3 gain on the currency.
Grant Cuff
The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
Luis Bunuel
You have this every couple years. You have a 10 or 11 percent decline. We've had it. It will probably go a little bit lower but this is not the beginning of the end.
Harvey Eisen
Dancehall, in particular, has been affected tremendously - by about a 30 to 35 per cent decline. Apart from the burning of CDs, illegal downloading affects us too.
Paul Shoucair
I will tell you right off the bat, I believe the (unemployment) decline is a little exaggerated.
Michele Hiester
We had expected cereal to actually decline based on AC Nielsen data.
David Driscoll
We are seeing a decline and it's real.
Prabhat Jha
We could see that he wasn't at his best. We could see it would be a further decline for him. We knew this was the inevitable end.
Hollie Colahan
It's been a steady decline over the past 28 years that I've been with the agency.
Ron Anglin
We expect a decline in consumer confidence as several factors come to bear on the consumer.
Chris Mccarty
The Grokster case did not result in a rapid decline in P2P usage.
Andrew Parker
One of the most important things right now in environmental studies is the decline of amphibians.
Catesby Jones
I'm expecting a decline in acres of rice statewide. It's a question of how much.
Chuck Wilson
We want to catch the child at the beginning of the decline.
Sharon Reid
Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.
Neil Diamond
The decline has been progressive . . . as the work force changes.
Pat Jenkins
There's actually a year over year decline in crude prices.
Marilyn Schaja
If you want me to comment on accelerating share decline, I guess I would have to say we don't see it.
Paul Laviolette
No. We're going to decline to comment.
Mike Taylor
Without it, we decline, we wither, and somebody else takes our place.
Tracy Koon
It's not the Japanese who are causing the market share decline. It's Americans buying the Japanese vehicles.
Bruce Belzowski
We are addressing it and we are seeing a decline.
Frank Gribbon
It was less of a decline that we expected, so Iraq was really in line of how we modeled it.
Jeff Tillery
Given that's a new model, that's a big decline.
Rebecca Lindland
It's clear that decline couldn't possibly be the new system.
Stephanie Goodman
That is a big decline.
Evan M. Magrill
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