Decrease Quotes

• It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Letting Go, Crazy

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• Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

  Roseanne Barr

  Believe, Space, Trying

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• He must increase, but I must decrease.

  John the Baptist

  Christian, Missionary, Glorifying God

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• The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.

  Herman Kahn

  Numbers, Objectivity, Weapons

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.29, Lexington Books

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• People at .08 are too impaired to drive. Studies show that at .08, the ability to perform critical driving functions is decreased by as much as 60 percent.

  Frank Lautenberg

  People, Driving, Study

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• Although many seniors are happy with the generous drug coverage they have from their former employers, the number of companies offering that kind of coverage has decreased by one-third since the mid-1980s.

  Jim Gerlach

  Senior, Numbers, Offering

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• A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

  Greg Walden

  Jobs, Loss, Average

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• We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, War, Growth

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

  Paul Gillmor

  Aunt, Oil, Middle East

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• Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

  Larry Elder

  Cutting, Doe, Increase

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• Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers.

  Marvin Harris

  World Religions, Principles, Followers

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• In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

  Garrett Hardin

  Mean, Environmental, World

  Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

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• As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform.

  Deborah Bull

  Space, Dancer, Brain

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• Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

  Havelock Ellis

  Population, Tasks, Speeding

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.126, Elsevier

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• The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

  Walter Benjamin

  Art, Criticism, Aversion

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, an abnormal decrease of sugar in the blood. Eventually I learned to eat five small meals a day. Now if I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time out to eat some crackers

  Carol Alt

  Blood, Meals, Abnormal

  "The Body Game". Interview with Elizabeth Sporkin, people.com. January 11, 1993.

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• A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

  Mark Twain

  Baby, Angel, Wings

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• A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.

  Jane McGonigal

  Oil, Availability, Dramatic

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• Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual decrease back to the original audio level.

  Honor Harger

  Couple, Half, Levels

  "Tuning In to the Universe" by Honor Harger, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

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• You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate.... The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop or really even decrease deforestation.

  Patrick Symmes

  Real, Failure, Science

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• Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying.

  Richard Louv

  Bullying, May, Natural

  "Restoring Peace: 6 Ways Nature in Our Lives Can Reduce the Violence in Our World" by Richard Louv, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2013.

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• If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

  Richard Stallman

  Mean, Demand, Increase

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• You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.

  Andy Stanley

  Numbers, People, Groups

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• Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.

  Hans Rosling

  Children, Average, Population

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• If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to write. The number of people wanting to be novelists is probably not going to decline - but certainly the number of people who are going to be able to make a living as authors is going to dramatically decrease.

  Scott Turow

  Passion, Writing, Simple

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