This is a season for choices, and this is the choice: between choice -- between decline and prosperity, and between the past and the future.

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We have failed to meet this challenge during periods of prosperity and also during periods of decline.

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From 1932 to 1945, years of relative prosperity, there was a steady decline, followed by small fluctuations throughout the calm and relatively stable 1950s.

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