Increase Quotes

• It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Letting Go, Crazy

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• To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Choices, Sailing, Desire

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.28, Wildside Press LLC

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• If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Failure

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• Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Light, Giving

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.

  Julian Assange

  Important, Phenomenon

  "An Interview With WikiLeaks' Julian Assange". Interview with Andy Greenberg, www.forbes.com. November 29, 2010.

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• In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.

  Charles Babbage

  Important, Machines, Use

  Charles Babbage (1832). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.26

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• Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

  George W. Bush

  Massachusetts, Enough, Education Funding

  George W. Bush during Presidential Debate at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, www.npr.org. October 13, 2004.

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• Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

  Paul Gauguin

  Stress, Opposites, Keys

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.

  Paul Gillmor

  Hurt, Years, Oil

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• An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.

  Newt Gingrich

  Senior, Jobs, Cost Of Living

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• Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

  Vaclav Havel

  Life, Struggle, Hero

  Open letter to Dr. Gustáv Husák, Communist President, April 08, 1975.

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• The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

  Dan Lipinski

  Zero, Car, Independence

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• Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Air, Individuality, Comfort

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XXI, 1840.

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• Labor diligently to increase your property.

  Horace

  Literature, Labor, Property

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• I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker.

  Joichi Ito

  Believe, Media, Marketing

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• The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

  David F. Houston

  Individual, Crops, Duty

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• Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.

  Bob Ney

  Jobs, Oil, Wildlife

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• There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

  John Phillips

  Heart, Years, Phases

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• When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

  Mort Walker

  Stars, Soldier, Black

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• If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

  Matt Blunt

  Stupid, Assembly, Taxes

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• Now in a way, money is money, and if it's going to increase our audience, that's fine.

  Gene Ween

  Money, Way, Fine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of cell lines readily available to scientists must increase.

  Ron Kind

  Believe, Cells, Numbers

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• Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

  Josiah Strong

  Cities, Growth, Doe

  Josiah Strong (1891). “Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis”

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• I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region.

  Pete Domenici

  Country, Energy, Cost

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• The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

  Townsend Harris

  War, Habit, Expenses

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