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After joining as a youth trainee at 16 from school, in my first two or three years the club was on a financial downward spiral and there was none of the new sparkling kit and the sparkling conditions that the kids get now.

~Colin Cooper

Topics: After Club Conditions Downward Financial First Get Joining Kids Kit New None Now School Sparkling Spiral Three Two Years Youth

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Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.

~Daryn Kagan

Topics: Downward Focus Forward Mind Same Same Time Simply Time Your

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There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on. You cannot perpetually stay in that place of blame, otherwise it's just a downward spiral.

~David Oyelowo

Topics: Been Blame Cannot Civilizations Communities Downward Ethnic Just Many Minorities Move Move On Others Otherwise Perpetually Place Spiral Stay You

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The trajectory of nearly all technology follows this downward and widening path: by the time a regular person is able to create his own TV network, it doesn't matter anymore that I have or am on a network.

~David Shields

Topics: Able Am Anymore By The Time Create Downward Follows His Matter Nearly Network Own Path Person Regular Regular Person Technology Time Trajectory Tv Widening

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Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.

~Edward Burnett Tylor

Topics: Across Downward Earth Every Forming Gradually How Imagine Just Knows Lies Miles Outlet Plain Snow Ten Towards Valley Valleys Which

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News-free existence is not a serious proposal, but it is worth noting that while today's 24/7 media environment is wonderful in many ways, it can also be like drinking out of a fire hose and intensify a downward reinforcing cycle of despair.

~Elaine Chao

Topics: Also Cycle Despair Downward Drinking Environment Existence Fire Hose Like Many Media Noting Out Proposal Serious Today Ways While Wonderful Worth

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With shorter clubs, your ball position should be just back of middle, to really promote hitting the ball first on a downward strike.

~Ernie Els

Topics: Back Ball Clubs Downward First Hitting Just Middle Position Promote Really Should Strike Your

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It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

~Florence Kelley

Topics: Additional Any Below Bodies Body Difficulty Downward Fatal Forever Hanging Just Level Maintain Means Other Overcome Own Pressure Rates Reasonable Skirts Struggle Wages Workers

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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Answer Correct Downward Exponentially Follows Forget Forgetting Fortunately Getting Graph Human Levels Likelihood Off Our Over Pattern Quickly Quiz Then Time

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Walmart's period of explosive growth coincided with decades of wage stagnation and deindustrialization. By applying relentless downward pressure on prices and wages, the company came to dominate both consumer spending and employment in small towns and rural areas across the middle of the country.

~George Packer

Topics: Across Applying Area Both Came Company Consumer Country Decades Dominate Downward Employment Explosive Growth Middle Period Pressure Prices Relentless Rural Rural Areas Small Small Towns Spending Stagnation Towns Wage Wages Walmart

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