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• Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Ideas, Language

  Walter Lippmann (2007). “Public Opinion”, p.67, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than thought) but about equal from diseases; poor sanitation and water; inadequate healthcare; and diseases of malnutrition. In industrialized societies, early deaths are caused more by diseases triggered by stress, which breaks down the immune system. It is since stress has become the key factor that men have died so much sooner than women.

  Warren Farrell

  Stress, Men, Keys

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action.

  Romain Rolland

  Soul, Action, Reason

  Romain Rolland (1910). “Jean-Christophe: Dawn. Morning. Youth. Revolt”

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• Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Men, Wish, Desire

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.154, Jazzybee Verlag

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• As a rule, large capitalists are Republicans and small capitalists are Democrats, but workingmen must remember that they are all capitalists, and that the many small ones, like the fewer large ones, are all politically supporting their class interests, and this is always and everywhere the capitalist class.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Class, Remember, Republican

  "Outlook for Socialism in the United States" by Eugene V. Debs in "International Socialist Review", www.marxists.org. September 1900.

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• I feel like a lot has changed - ebooks are a much more valid format and bigger presses are taking less chances. As a bookseller, there are less real bookstores and more people buying on-line. As a writer, I think there are fewer paths to break through on a big press, but on the other hand there are more small presses doing awesome work now. Overall, artistically, I think it's a pretty exciting time in the literary world.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Real, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is destroying its own legitimacy. We face a choice not of anarchy or authoritarianism, but a choice of limited government or unlimited government .

  James Bovard

  Government, Law, America

  James Bovard (1994). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.6, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

  Carroll Quigley

  Today, Realizing, Scientist

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• The world can use more light and less noise. More solvers and fewer blamers. More folks showing a better way and fewer folks complaining about how much better things used to be. More folks offering help and fewer folks wringing their hands about the problems. More hope bringers and fewer hope killers.

  Steve Goodier

  Light, Offering, Hands

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• Increasingly gang violence and organized crime, together with climate change-driven natural disasters, are displacing more people as wars are fewer on the continent and political violence has decreased considerably, the NRC has decided to treat this as a humanitarian crisis.

  Jan Egeland

  Change, War, People

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• I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.

  John Prescott

  Journey, Order, Years

  "Record Traffic Jams Break Labour Pledge" by Kamal Ahmed, www.theguardian.com. August 05, 2001.

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• If there was more courting in marriage, there'd be fewer marriages in court. Date your mate. Today.

  Rick Warren

  Today, Court, Mates

  Twitter post from Aug 30, 2010

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• More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

  M.J. Rose

  Book, Reading, Avid

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• Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Squares, Feet, Kites

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• I think that there are a lot of great studio people but the fewer voices in my head when I'm getting out a draft, the better. I just get it out and then I'll listen to all manner of good ideas. And that's what happens, too, when I'm touring and doing a character on stage.

  Mike Myers

  Character, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I've noticed that the less makeup I wear, the less I need it because my skin starts to look better - my face doesn't break out as often and I have fewer skin problems because I'm not clogging your pores every single day with makeup.

  Lindsay Arnold

  Makeup, Skins, Faces

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• God has a university. It's a small school. Few enroll; even fewer graduate.

  Gene Edwards

  School, Graduates, University

  Gene Edwards (2011). “A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness”, p.15, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Ninety-eight percent of all American companies have fewer than 100 employees. Over half of all Americans work for a small business. Small businesses are the backbone of our nation’s economy and we must protect this great resource.....Helping American small business is part of our movement for change and the end of politics as usual.

  Barack Obama

  Eight, Usual, Movement

  "Obama Tries to Retract Statement to End Billions in Contracting Fraud" by Lloyd Chapman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2008.

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• It seems that the most fearful people in our country are those who don't travel and are metaphorically barricaded in America. If we all stayed home and built more walls and fewer bridges between us and the rest of the world, eventually we would have something to actually be fearful of.

  Rick Steves

  Country, Travel, Wall

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• If it were true that Christianity and science were incompatible, there would be no Christians who were respected scientists. If fact, about forty percent of professional natural scientists are practicing Christians, and many others are theists of other kinds. Fewer than thirty percent are atheists.

  Jeffrey Burton Russell

  Christian, Atheist, Atheism

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• We have only to see a few letters of the alphabet spelling our name in the sand to recognize at once the work of an intelligent agent. How much more likely, then is the existence of an intelligent Creator behind human DNA, the colossal biological database that contains no fewer than 3.5 billion "letters the longest "word" yet discovered?"

  John Lennox

  God, Intelligent, Names

  John C. Lennox (2011). “God and Stephen Hawking: Whose Design is it Anyway?”, p.74, Lion Books

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• All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

  C. S. Lewis

  School, America, Should

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• Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.

  Maya Rudolph

  Men, Doubt, Comedy

  Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2009.

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• I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

  Olivia Colman

  Girl, Classic, Harder

  "'I'm lucky I'm not a pin-up': ITV's Broadchurch star Olivia Colman's own battle" by Halina Watts, www.mirror.co.uk. March 23, 2013.

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• But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

  Jenny Offill

  Fun, Getting Older, Seems

  Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.77, Granta Books

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