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

  E. V. Lucas

  Work, Character, Men

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• With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.

  Arthur Laffer

  Shrinking, Classic, Economy

  "Economic Debate: Laffer vs. Liesman". "The Kudlow Report" with Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. February 26, 2009.

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• If we build more windows and fewer walls, we will have more friends.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  Wall, Window, Ifs

  Alan Loy McGinnis (2003). “The Friendship Factor: How to Get Closer to the People You Care for”, p.26, Augsburg Books

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• There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

  Jean Shepherd

  Letters, Thrilling

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• In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Cognition, Movement, Boundaries

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• What this country needs is more people to inspire others with confidence, and fewer people to discourage any initiative in the right direction more to get into the thick of things, fewer to sit on the sidelines, merely finding fault more to point out what's right with the world, and fewer to keep harping on what's wrong with it and more who are interested in lighting candles, and fewer who blow them out.

  James Keller

  Country, Blow, People

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• If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles – but you’d be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature that.

  Marcus J. Ranum

  Car, Able, Wheels

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• Fewer women would have abortions if wombs had windows.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Abortion, Window, Womb

  "Aborting America". Book by Bernard Nathanson and Richard Ostling, 1979.

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• If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
  To do our country loss; and if to live,
  The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
  God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Loss, Men

  William Shakespeare (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.531

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• Meat is produced under HACCP plans. Meat and poultry are required to be produced under standard food safety plans and they have been since the mid-'90s, and there are now fewer problems with meat than there used to be. That's on the USDA's side.

  Marion Nestle

  Safety, Poultry, Sides

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you come from a wealthy country with open borders, unless you seriously believe you can kill, imprison or occupy all your enemies, you have to make a world with more friends and fewer enemies - with more partners and fewer terrorists.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Believe, Enemy

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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 possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Believe, Wish, Virtue

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• Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Men, Roots, Dew

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.146

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• We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

  Bill Gates

  Learning, Lines, Way

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• Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following year.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Years, Support, Bird

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: who is doing it? Trends break out because they're based on real demographics, like there being fewer nuclear families or more people living alone. If 10 people in Shoreditch are doing it, it's a 10-minute fad.

  Peter York

  Real, People, World

  "This Much I Know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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• If some confectioners were willing
  To let the shape announce the filling,
  We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs,
  Bitten into and returned to the box.

  Ogden Nash

  Chocolate, Encounters, Shapes

  Ogden Nash (1942). “Good intentions”, Little, Brown

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• All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Book, Men, Order

  "We Should All Be Feminists". Book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, July 29, 2014.

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• Generally speaking, they have as many stars as other firms, but they are low-key about it, because that's not the Goldman way, but their bench is a lot deeper. I think Goldman has as many A players, but more importantly they have fewer C players. And no firm, I have noticed, has the depth anywhere like that.

  William D. Cohan

  Stars, Thinking, Player

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• For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are...businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but -- ominously -- fewer and fewer people laugh at it.

  Neal Ascherson

  Past, Government, Years

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• For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!

  Robert Browning

  Heaven, Doe, Treasure

  'Christmas Eve' (1850) l. 1311

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• I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field.

  Christine Lagarde

  Fields, Scientist, Economist

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