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Young, middle-aged, elderly, old, dead: this was how life conjugated. (No, life was a noun, so this is how life declined. Yes, that was better in any case, life declined.


Julian Barnes


#age

As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.


Ralph A. Cram


#centuries #christianity #correspondingly #declined #followed

Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined.


Frank Dane


#had #rome #senators #too #why

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.


Jack Steinberger


#berkeley #declined #i #loyalty #oath

A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter.


Simon Newcomb


#been #college #consider #consideration #declined

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.


Steve Israel


#american workers #among #declined #dramatically #economic

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.


Arne Jacobsen


#declined #enthusiasm #everything #grandma #hand

Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.


Bill Walton


#been #changes #declined #fountains #fun

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.


Joe Conason


#agenda #billion #bush #bush tax cuts #coming

I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long.


Scott Rigell


#congressional #could #decline #declined #every






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