The value of solar and wind decline in economic value as they BECOME LARGER shares of the electricity grid for physical REASONS. They produce too MUCH energy when SOCIETIES don't need it and not enough energy when they do.

I'm very concerned about the TONE of politics in recent years. We've SEEN a decline in civility and bipartisanship, and a rapid increase in hostility between those who have differing opinions. I THINK this has LED to the alienation of the public in governance, which jeopardizes democratic PARTICIPATION.

There's EVIDENCE of a social decline in direct proportion to TECHNOLOGY and the industrialization of the motion picture INDUSTRY.

You've got to EARN it every DAY. It's never enough when you think you've done enough. That's when you START to get on the decline... You've got to earn it every day, practice hard and SHOW you belong.

Labor force participation peaked in early 2000, so its decline began WELL before the Great Recession. A portion of that decline clearly relates to the AGING of the BABY boom GENERATION. But the pace of decline accelerated with the recession.

We can RECOGNIZE the DAWN and the decline of LOVE by the uneasiness we feel when ALONE TOGETHER.

Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete LAWS, SLOWING BLOOD flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians SEE decline of empire.

If you don't have the TIME or DESIRE to do whatever is being asked of you, say, 'no.' Even if you want to bake those cookies for your kid's fundraiser or take on a new freelancing gig, SOMETIMES you just have to politely DECLINE until you do have the extra time. The other party may be disappointed, but it's not the end of the WORLD.

The DECLINE and fall of the modern religious RIGHT's notion of a CHRISTIAN America creates a calmer POLITICAL environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.

I can FEEL the gradual decline of energy and vitality. And I mean generally, EVERY year, when you know you are not on the same LEVEL as last year. But that's LIFE.

I might be in a little DECLINE. I don't KNOW. How many guys that have played 150 games are STILL on the upswing? I've played a LOT of games, a lot of snaps.

When a noble life has prepared for OLD AGE, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first DAYS of immortality.