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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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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Gautama Buddha

Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

Rebecca Miller

Quality, Quality Of Life, Security

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

Mark Twain

Baby, Angel, Wings

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If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

Charles Dickens

Population, Scrooge, Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.9

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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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Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases.

Johannes Stark

Running, Numbers, Lines

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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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I was heartened to hear the President say that as we make progress on the ground, and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels.

Howard Coble

President, Progress, Able

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The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

George Sutherland

Mean, Law, Would Be

Gregory v. Helvering, 293 U.S. 465, (469), 1935.

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We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

Nina Fedoroff

People, Support, Growth

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

Larry Elder

Cutting, Doe, Increase

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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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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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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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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

Memorable, Great Love, Heaven

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes”, p.30

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We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.

Michael Enzi

Careers, Way, Quitting

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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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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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I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker.

Joichi Ito

Believe, Media, Marketing

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Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S

Rosa DeLauro

Government, Abortion, Low Income

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