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• A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Animal, Men, Talking

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.25, Lulu.com

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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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• Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them.

  Carl Honore

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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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• The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.

  Albert Pike

  Writing, Echoes, Leaving

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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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• Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

  Sophocles

  Inspirational, Expression

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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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• In 1960, fewer than 13 percent of Americans were obese, and diabetes had been diagnosed in 1 percent. Today, the percentage of obese Americans has almost tripled; the percentage of Americans with diabetes has increased sevenfold.

  Gary Taubes

  Today, Percentages, 1960s

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• Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

  Luc de Clapiers

  People, Use, Speech

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

  C. S. Lewis

  School, America, Should

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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