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On decline and losing ability

Spiritual decline gets serious attention here, with one quote describing mid-twentieth-century white America through the lens of quiet atrophy.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Erratic
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Nov 07, 2020

The type of Alzheimer's Dad has is rare - posterior cortical atrophy or PCA - and it affects his spatial awareness and the way he judges distance. His first symptoms were erratic typing and spelling, but to talk to him, you'd never know there was a problem.

Quotes by Rhianna Pratchett

Destroy
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Nov 07, 2020

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Quotes by Martha Gellhorn

Death
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Nov 07, 2020

'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

Quotes by John Lahr

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

Far
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Nov 07, 2020

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Quotes by Ezra Pound

Choice
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Nov 07, 2020

You almost have no choice but to continue to innovate because if you don't, you are likely to atrophy rather than expand.

Quotes by David Carey

Physical atrophy is covered too, as one Bitter reflection on a rare condition shows how illness can gradually affect awareness and movement.

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