Even if this way of life for a long time to maintain the tranquility and beauty of native, its decline and being replaced is inevitable.

即使这种生存方式在相当长时间里维持了乡土的宁静与美好，它的没落与被代替也是不可避免的。

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By this point, for the first time in its history Microsoft was facing the prospect of a decline in its core business.

到这个时点，微软在其历史上首次面临核心业务下滑的前景。

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But Benedict suggested that its future, "at a time when many speak of its decline, " lies in seeing it as a community of many people united in a love of Christ, rather than as an organization.

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Private growth resumed despite Keynesian predictions of doom at the time as government spending fell, and debt as a share of GDP continued its gradual decline.

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If there is a lesson for the future of Islamic finance from medieval Christian finance, it is that the roots of its decline lay in societal changes to the fragmented, feudal society of Europe of its time.

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