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• The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wise, Fighting, Blow

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• It is easier to start taxes than to stop them. A tax an inch long can easily become a yard long. That has been the history of the income tax. Would not the sales tax be likely to have a similar history [in the U.S.]? ... Canadian newspapers report that an increase in the sales tax threatens to drive the Mackenzie King administration out of office. Canada began with a sales tax of 2%.... Starting this month the tax is 6%. The burden, in other words, has already been increased 200% ... What the U.S. needs is not new taxes, is not more taxes, but fewer and lower taxes.

  B. C. Forbes

  Kings, Long, Office

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• You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.

  Barack Obama

  Horse, Military, Land

  Barack Obama's remarks in the Third Presidential Debate at the Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 23, 2012.

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• Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be eagerly followed. Few people will commit suicide without a push. And fewer still will pay good money to be told to do what is against human nature and self-interest to do.

  Paul Samuelson

  Suicide, Self, People

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• Principles are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions. Every game has principles that successful players master to achieve winning results. So does life. Principles are ways of successfully dealing with the laws of nature or the laws of life. Those who understand more of them and understand them well know how to interact with the world more effectively than those who know fewer of them or know them less well.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Successful, Player

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• The message to organizations is this: You have to increase the number of categories of contributing, or the types of career paths, which people can experience as successful. You cannot restrict esteem to the fewer and fewer who will be climbing up the management ladder. You need to have the majority of your people feeling like winners.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Successful, Climbing, Careers

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• We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.

  Frank Pierson

  Philosophy, Needs, Philosopher

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• What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except the few burnt lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lakes, Land, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.80

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• It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

  Agatha Christie

  Love You, People, Suffering

  Agatha Christie (1952). “A Daughter's a Daughter”

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• What women look for in a man: Breathing, IQ over 80, weight under 550 pounds, fewer than six ex-wives. What men look for in a woman: Pia Zadora as she was ten years ago.

  Cathy Crimmins

  Women, Years, Breathing

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• ... in all cases of monstrosity at birth anaesthetics should be applied by doctors publicly appointed for that purpose... Every successive year would see fewer of the unfit born, and finally none. But, it may be urged, this is legalized infanticide. Assuredly it is; and it is urgently needed.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Doctors, Years, Purpose

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• I get in fewer arguments when I'm alone.

  Paula Poundstone

  Argument

  FaceBook post by PAULA POUNDSTONE from Aug 11, 2013

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• Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Let Me

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• There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed
  rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Giving, Hours

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.410, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

  Mark Twain

  Ifs

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• Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Character, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1505, Delphi Classics

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• Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral.

  Andrew Schneider

  Roots, Funeral, Biggie

  "Fictional character: Chris Stevens". "Northern Exposure/ Our Wedding", www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• The degree to which the child-rearing professionals continue to be out of touch with reality is astounding. For example, a widely read manual on breast-feeding, devotes fewer than two pages to the working mother.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Mother, Children, Reality

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• All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Philosophy, Rights

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• A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.

  Jonas Salk

  People, Deficit, Elders

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• We are killing our host the planet Earth.... I was once severely criticized for describing human beings as being the 'AIDS of the Earth.' I make no apologies for that statement.... We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.

  Paul Watson

  Apology, Population, Needs

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• Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Exercise, Thinking

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• During the last 100 years cosmic rays became scarcer because unusually vigorous action by the Sun batted away many of them. Fewer cosmic rays meant fewer clouds - and a warmer world.

  Henrik Svensmark

  Clouds, Years, Rays

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• I think we as a country have definitely got to do better when it comes to housing people of all backgrounds. Not only can the less fortunate afford housing but fewer people of all kinds can afford it.

  CeCe Winans

  Country, Thinking, People

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• Well, of course, all of the statistics say there are fewer eligible black men in my circle. But I've never thought of it that way. I believe that if the right person came into my life that would have been terrific.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Believe, Men, Circles

  "Dr. Rice Makes a House Call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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