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It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.
by Robert Shea (Author, American , born in 1909) keywords: becomes, computer, creativity, decline, fun, idealism, important, industry, instance, instructive, more, prosperous, romance, sheer, trace , vision As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
by Abdolkarim Soroush (Philosopher, Iranian , born in 1945) keywords: also, awareness, being, came, consciousness, decline, ethnicity, identity, into, islamic, national , result When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
by Muriel Spark (Novelist, English , born in 1918) topics: Age keywords: age, days, decline, first, immortality, life, noble, old, prepared , reveals Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.
by Penelope Spheeris (Director, American , born in 1945) keywords: decline, drugs, funded, iii, kidding, lot, money, myself, print, sold , studio I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.
by Penelope Spheeris (Director, American , born in 1945) keywords: actually, copies, decline, flea, ii, market, once, out, paying, picked, up, walked , without The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.
by Penelope Spheeris (Director, American , born in 1945) keywords: appreciation, bands, because, decline, did, first, form, love, more, music, new, out, political, punk , sheer 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.
by Penelope Spheeris (Director, American , born in 1945) keywords: any, dearly, decline, even, ii, loved, made, money, movies, never, rights, some, suburbia, them , those When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
by Anne Louise Germaine de Stael (Author, Swiss , born in 1766) keywords: age, days, decline, first, immortality, life, noble, old, prepared , reveals A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
by William Graham Sumner (Businessman, American , born in 1840) keywords: according, decline, dissolution, drunkard, fitness, gutter, him, just, nature, ought, process, removes, set, she, survived, tendency, their, things, upon, usefulness, where , which 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.
by James Thurber (Comedian, American , born in 1894) keywords: answers, decline, english, expression, fact, give, grace, helps, interviews, language, lies, little, offhand, opposition, oral, perpetuate, such, take , value For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.
by Charles Vest (Educator, American , born in 1941) keywords: accounts, administration, been, between, both, budget, congressional, date, decade, decline, dollars, far, impact, less, much, percent, projections, real, science, severe, showed , technology Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.
by Paul Virilio (Writer, French , born in 1932) keywords: attached, civic, decline, drifting, effectiveness, fall, grace, immediate, more, now, once, science, towards, truth, ut , which It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
by Eberhard Weber (Musician, German , born in 1940) keywords: after, audience, better, decline, finish, notices, peak, soon, than, until , wait The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline of empires has happened much faster than folks think. I believe that gold will be a far better bet in 20 years than the dollar.
by Tom Winnifrith (Businessman) keywords: believe, bet, better, britain, change, decline, dollar, economies, empires, far, faster, folks, gold, happened, much, than, think, top, two, us, were, will , years 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.
by Tom Wopat (Actor, American , born in 1951) keywords: amazing, conveyed, decline, emotion, good, hear, kind, matures, really, starts, still, then, vocalist , voice This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.
by Daniel Yergin (Author, American , born in 1947) keywords: after, also, decline, gulf, hurricanes, iraq, loss, lot, mexico, nigeria, output, production, since, unrest, venezuelan , war These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.
by Mortimer Zuckerman (Publisher, Canadian , born in 1937) keywords: american, day, days, decline, dream, every, families, home, horrible, into, meant, millions, much, nightmare, ownership, reality, them, these, turned, value , wake
