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Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

E. V. Lucas

Work, Character, Men

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Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Problem, Arise, Meetings

Ashleigh Brilliant (1980). “I Have Abandoned My Search for Truth, and Am Now Looking for a Good Fantasy: More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises

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As far as your personal requirements are concerned, the ideal is to
have fewer involvements, fewer obligations, and fewer affairs,
business or whatever. However, so far as the interest of the larger
community is concerned, you must have as many involvements as
possible and as many activities as possible.

Dalai Lama

Community, Requirements, Affair

His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.191, Penguin Books India

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It is increasingly obvious that environmentally sustainable solutions to world hunger can only emerge as people eat more plant foods and fewer animal products. To me it is deeply moving that the same food choices that give us the best chance to eliminate world hunger are also those that take the least toll on the environment, contribute the most to our long-term health, are the safest, and are also, far and away, the most compassionate towards our fellow creatures.

John Robbins

Moving, Animal, Long

John Robbins (2010). “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World”, p.302, Conari Press

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Remember that not everyone is as strong as you are. Be mindful of human weakness, and of the fact that it may be more important, in the long run, to get many people taking steps in the right direction than to have fewer achieving the ideal.

Peter Singer

Running, Strong, Long

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By my count, the Deputy Prime Minister has sworn an oath of loyalty and service to Her Majesty no fewer than four times in the last two years, yet he has used his position as a minister of the Crown as a podium from which to rail against our history and our heritage. The minister says that instead of the monarchy he would prefer an entirely Canadian institution, but he fails to recognize that the monarchy is as Canadian as the House of Commons itself.

Elsie Wayne

Loyalty, Years, Two

Elsie Wayne during House of Commons Debates, www.parl.gc.ca. October 8, 2002.

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In the short walk between his aeroplane and reaching the outside world at Heathrow, Michael Bywater encountered no fewer than 93 separate notices telling him off for things he hadn't done or which hadn't even occurred to him to do. Being bossed and patronised are two sensations that most sophisticated adults would sooner do without and yet we are bossed and patronised, by the media, by politicians, by business, by advertising agencies and the public services, more now than at any other time in our history. Why should this be?

Alexander Waugh

Media, Two, America

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There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

Douglas Coupland

Numbness, Feelings, World

Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.208, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of friends you ‘can only take in small doses.’

Sloane Crosley

Growing Up, People, Like You

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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.

Oliver North

Country, War, Men

"Oliver North Discusses His Book, ‘War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific’". "Your Turn — Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. March 9, 2005.

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In executing an Artful Strategy: When ten times greater, surround them; When five times greater, attack them; When two times greater, scatter them. If the opponent is ready to challenge: When fewer in number, be ready to evade them; When unequal to the match, be ready to avoid them. Even when the smaller opponents have a strong position, the larger opponent will capture them.

Sun Tzu

Strong, Two, Numbers

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There are fewer ways of making love than they say, and more than one believes.

Renee Vivien

Love, Sex, Believe

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Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical stability actually result in a rundown of the energy available to ecosystems and people. Geologically young regions with recent mountain building and volcanism tend to be much more biologically productive and have supported large populations of people despite their vulnerability to natural disasters. Geologically old regions (like most of Australia) tend to have low biological productivity and supported fewer people.

David Holmgren

Thinking, Ecosystems, Australia

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I honor businesses for what they do, I honor nonprofits for what they do, I honor government for what it does, and then I invite everyone to the table so that together we can come up with innovative and broad-based solutions that can serve as many people as possible. The fewer or less diverse voices you invite to the table, the smaller and narrower your solution will be and the fewer people it will serve.

Bernie Glassman

Business, Government, Together We Can

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It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us - but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses.

Carl Sagan

Stars, Weakness, Thrive

Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.355, Ballantine Books

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Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

John Maeda

Organization

John Maeda (2006). “The Laws of Simplicity”, p.12, MIT Press

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There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven.

Jack Johnson

Stars, Heaven, Holes

Song: Holes To Heaven, Album: On And On

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Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily be described as 'Don't ask and don't tell,' needs to be abandoned -- that is not in anyone's best interest.

David Eisenberg

Views, Physicians, Needs

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I have no doubt that aggressively going after wrongdoing can result in real improvement. Fewer wrongdoers in city government means more honest employees; it means better city services; it means more efficient government. And punishing wrongdoing can have a strong ripple effect that deters others from going down the wrong path.

David Hoffman

Strong, Real, Mean

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The by-product of fewer technical support issues is also an increase in customer satisfaction, which can be reflected in reduced subscriber churn.

Patrick Fitzgerald

Issues, Support, Satisfaction

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Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.

David Shore

Safety, Noise, Runway

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Humanity's true purpose is not to become stronger physically, it's to become more intelligent-from armies, who increasingly fight with specialized units rather than regiments and tanks, to garage owners, who use a lot more than jacks to fix your engine. As intelligence prevails throughout humanity, maybe there'll be fewer wars and better cars.

Georges St-Pierre

War, Fighting, Army

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People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.

Jonathan Gottschall

People, Gloves, Crowds

"A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

Dan Gelber

Running, Conflict, Difficult

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Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.

Vladimir Lenin

Men, People, Failing

"Lenin's Hanging Order" on August 11, 1918. "The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive". Book by Richard Pipes, p. 50, 1996.

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