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• It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization have brought about a shrinking of intelligence. There is no doubt that the quality of any human group decreases when the number of the individuals composing this group increases beyond certain limits... The best way to increase the intelligence of scientists would be to decrease their number.

  Alexis Carrel

  Science, Men, Numbers

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• As the proportion of people reaching higher states of consciousness increases, this inertia will decrease, and at the same time a supportive momentum in the new direction will start building up.

  Peter Russell

  Building Up, People, Supportive

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• Iran is undertaking a massive effort to expand its influence in southern Iraq. At the same time, that influence decreases the more the political process in Iraq progresses.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Iran, Iraq, Effort

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The activity of both sets of muscles, the diaphragm and the abdominal muscles, varies reciprocally. Thus, during inspiration the tonus of the diaphragm increases while that of the abdominal muscles decreases, and vice-versa during expiration. Hence there exists between these two muscle groups a floating equilibrium constantly shifting in both directions.

  Dave Gorman

  Inspiration, Breathing, Two

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• Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

  Henri Nouwen

  Fate, Giving, Goal

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to develop substitutes. But what about the appetite itself? The major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production, particularly in industrialised countries

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, Deterioration, Use

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• As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.

  Joel Miller

  Government, Quality, Increase

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• Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

  David A. Bednar

  Increase, Righteous, Impulsive

  "We Believe in Being Chaste". www.lds.org. April 2013.

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• Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Gratitude, Law, Increase

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2016). “The Complete Collection (with the book "The Power of the Spoken Word")”, p.76, Florence Scovel Shinn

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• Returns decrease as motion increases.

  Warren Buffett

  Return, Increase

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.111, Carolina Academic Press

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• Caring about what people think of me decreases everyday.

  Rashida Jones

  Caring, Thinking, People

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• NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171/100,000 in 1984 to 175/100,000 by the year 2000!

  Samuel Epstein

  Cancer, Years, Mortality

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• People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme.

  John Scott

  Teenager, Responsibility, People

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• Unlike George Bush and his friends at the big oil companies, I'm going to work for a real energy policy for this country that decreases America's dependence on foreign oil and helps lower the costs to American families.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Real, Oil

  "White House, Saudis: No election deal on oil". www.cnn.com. April 19, 2004.

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• Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children.

  Laura Bush

  Nature, Children, Stress

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• If frequency with which you cite an education credential does not decrease over the course of your life, you’re not accomplishing very much.

  Ben Casnocha

  Doe, Citing, Courses

  Twitter post from Dec 3, 2009

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• Ahead of me lies the familiar litany: weakening of the heart, hardening of the arteries, increasing brittleness of bones, decreases in kidney filtration rates, lower resistance of the immune system, and loss of memory. The list could be extended almost indefinitely. Evolution seems indeed to have arranged things so that all our systems deteriorate, and that we invest in repair only as much as we are worth.

  Jared Diamond

  Life, Memories, Lying

  Jared Diamond (2013). “The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee”, p.118, Random House

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• The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease consumption, and thus increase cancer rates. The levels of synthetic pesticide residues are trivial in comparison to natural chemicals, and thus their potential for cancer causation is extremely low. [Ames believes that "to eat your veggies" is the best way to prevent cancer.]

  Bruce Ames

  Cancer, Believe, Science

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• Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.

  Abu Hanifa

  Faith, Would Be, Doe

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• From the Million Man March to this day, the crime and murder rates have significantly decreased in the major cities of America, according to police reports. I believe that the Million Man March was a significant part of the reason for the decrease.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Believe, Men, Cities

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The hours spent viewing TV are hours not available for actively participating in the real world, or playing, or being involved with friends and family. Watching television is an individual activity that tends to discourage interaction with others; as viewing time increases, family communication time decreases. As family communication decreases, people grow more distant from each other and may even forget how to carry on a good conversation.

  Louise Hart

  Real, Communication, Interaction With Others

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• The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn't a government spending program. It's called marriage.

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Government, Poverty

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of recreations the most innocent. But now the sport is marred, and why you ask? Fishes decrease, and fishers multiply.

  Thomas Bastard

  Sports, Exercise, Lakes

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• As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.

  Andy Stanley

  Authority, Increase, Organizational

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• How can anyone think so insanely that the human life has the same value and mankind, the same morality, independent of numbers? It is lucid to me that everytime a new child is born, the value of every human in world decreases slightly. It is obvious to me that the morality of the population explosion is wholly unlike than when man was a sparse, noble species in its beginning.

  Pentti Linkola

  Children, Independent, Men

  "The Doctrine Of Survival And Doctor Ethics", Personal website, www.penttilinkola.com. June 29, 2006.

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