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• Detached forgiveness—there is a reduction in negative feelings toward the offender, but no reconciliation takes place. Limited forgiveness—there is a reduction in negative feelings toward the offender, and the relationship is partially restored, though there is a decrease in the emotional intensity of the relationship. Full forgiveness—there is a total cessation of negative feelings toward the offender, and the relationship is fully restored.

  R. T. Kendall

  Emotional, Feelings, Negative

  R.T. Kendall (2010). “Total Forgiveness: When Everything in You Wants to Hold a Grudge, Point a Finger, and Remember the Pain—God Wants You to Lay it All Aside”, p.10, Charisma Media

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• When did atheists become so evangelical? I mean, if you don't believe something to be true, wouldn't you just ignore it? That's certainly what I do. Whether it's leprechauns or a congressional debt reduction plan - if I'm convinced it's fiction, I simply put it out of my mind. Not the atheists. They are obsessed with faith and religious practice. Their identities and their works are one big reaction to that which they hate. No longer content to simply dismiss God and those who follow in Him, the New Atheists have created a cult of unbelief.

  Laura Ingraham

  Religious, Atheist, Hate

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• The (editing) work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time youd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.

  Edward Blishen

  Beautiful, Eye, Editing

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• Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class.

  James Callaghan

  Real, Class, Calling

  "Chancellor stands by three per cent growth and no devaluation". The Times, (p. 13), July 25, 1967.

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• There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.

  Tony Abbott

  Government, Said, Schemes

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• Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes.

  Tony Abbott

  Differences, Problem, Bigs

  Abbott, Tony, Tony Abbott (2009). “Battlelines”, p.172, Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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• Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Running, Investing, Taxation

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• I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism.

  Julia Gillard

  Possibility, Pollution, Carbon Tax

  "Opposition vows to repeal carbon tax". "The World Today" with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. February 28, 2011.

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• Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.

  Attila Kotanyi

  Modern, Social, Alienation

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• Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like so much wrapping paper, the traveller finds himself reduced to more modest proportions - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.

  Nicolas Bouvier

  Believe, Sight, People

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• If governments encourage people to become more spiritual there will be a reduction in healthcare costs.

  John Templeton

  Spiritual, Optimistic, Government

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• If we continue on the trend we’re on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million people out of dollar-and-a-quarter a day poverty and back from the brink of hunger and malnutrition. But if we accelerate our progress from 3 percent annual reduction to over 6 percent and focus on key turnarounds in some difficult countries, we could get a 90 percent reduction. We could essentially eliminate dollar-and-a-quarter head count poverty.

  Rajiv Shah

  Country, Keys, People

  Rajiv Shah's Remarks at The Aspen Institute, 2012-2017.usaid.gov. August 1, 2012.

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• It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead a global end-not a reduction, but an end-to absolute poverty...I have always found that a committed, powerful group of leaders, can make a huge difference.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Powerful, Years, Differences

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• As president, I will fight illegal immigration in order to preserve an appropriate level of legal immigration. At the same time, I believe our system of legal immigration needs to be re-examined. As part of this re-examination, I support a modest, temporary reduction in the annual rate of legal immigration.

  Bob Dole

  Believe, Fighting, Order

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• To the extent that our workers compete with low-paid Mexicans, it is as much through undocumented immigration as trade. This pattern threatens low-paid, low-skill U.S. workers. The combination of domestic reforms and NAFTA-related growth in Mexico will keep more Mexicans at home. It is likely that a reduction in immigration will increase the real wages of low-skilled urban and rural workers in the United States.

  William J. Clinton

  Real, Home, Skills

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• We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Pain, Sacrifice, Class

  "Interview with DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz" by John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 2, 2011.

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• I'm going to be working the next 25 or 30 years. People like me, if we want, number one, for no benefit reductions for our parents and our grandparents, number two, for the system to survive and exist for us, and, more importantly, number three, for the system to exist for us children, we are going to have to make reforms to that system.

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Years, Two

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• All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Zero, Nuclear, Use

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.132, I.B.Tauris

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• Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented.

  Steven Pinker

  Party, Technique, Use

  "War And Violence On The Decline In Modern Times". "Talk Of The Nation" with Neal ConanN, www.npr.org. December 7, 2011.

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• The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.

  Frances O'Grady

  Economic Models, Profound, Challenges

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• In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction.

  Joe Klein

  Long, Political, Facts

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• I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Europe, Navy, Important

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• People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Loneliness, Emotional, People

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• If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males.

  Mary Daly

  Thinking, Feminist, Males

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• Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output. Since most of our exogenous tax changes are in fact reductions, the more intuitive way to express this result is that tax cuts have very large and persistent positive output effects

  Christina Romer

  Philosophy, Cutting, Impact

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