Increase Quotes - Page 13

• The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

  Alice Rivlin

  California, Low Income, Trends

  "MAKING ENDS MEET / The well-off are better off, but the ranks of the poor are growing, and middle- and low-income workers feel pressure of high prices" by Jason B. Johnson, www.sfgate.com. September 28, 2005.

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• We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.

  Huey Newton

  Trying, Levels, Conflict

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• Hot Plants enhance sexual experience. They increase sensitivity and make sex more urgent. Men get better erections. Women benefit, too. Your orgasms are like Chinese New Year fireworks.

  Chris Kilham

  New Year, Sex, Men

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• Peace is never so complete that we may not have something to suffer. . . . Since it is impossible to please all of [those you serve], they offer you the occasion for practices which increase your merit in the measure that you make them meritorious by your patience.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Practice, Suffering

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• You might argue that I make the rounds no matter what year it is, but sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.

  Markus Zusak

  Race, Escaping, Years

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.225, Random House

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• A father who finds it difficult to express his love vocally for his children may need, at first, to be humbly obedient in holding family home evenings in order to help him to discover, or to increase, his appreciation for his children. Next can come to him the courage to say I love you to each one.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Love, Appreciation, Children

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• It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.

  J. W. N. Sullivan

  Art, Real, Science

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• As adults, if our top priorities are constantly directed toward the acquisition of more and better worldly goods, it will not take long to increase our love in those directions. The purchase of a larger house or a nicer car or a more expensive boat may cause us to sacrifice our resources and develop an unwise love for these symbols of success and pleasure. We learn to love that which we serve, and we serve that which we love.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Sacrifice, Car, Long

  Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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• To everyone wanting a safe, untroubled, comfortable life free from danger, stay away from Jesus. The danger in our lives will always increase in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.

  David Platt

  Jesus, Depth, Safe

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• Each increase of tension
  has produced an increase of arms;
  each increase of arms
  has produced an increase of tension.

  John F. Kennedy

  Arms, Tension

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

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• The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

  Jean Racine

  Eye, Names, Shame

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• We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

  Veerappa Moily

  Choices, Needs, Fuel

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• In all of the history of mankind there has never been a time when we have had a greater opportunity to increase our knowledge of the law of the Lord...Surely there can be no excuse for us not to become the best informed generation of all time in our knowledge of the scriptures. Never before have we had opportunity such as we have today to become real gospel scholars.

  L. Tom Perry

  Real, Opportunity, Law

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• I think that people who study the scriptures get a dimension to their life that nobody else gets and that can’t be gained in any way except by studying the scriptures. There’s an increase in faith and a desire to do what’s right and a feeling of inspiration and understanding that comes to people who study the gospel—meaning particularly the Standard Works—and who ponder the principles, that can’t come in any other way

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Inspiration, Thinking, People

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• At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Home, Common Sense, Decision

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• The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously.

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Goal, Inventory, Measurement

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (2016). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, p.84, Routledge

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• We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We see huge changes in the planet's hydrology already, the cycles of drought and flood both amped up because warm air holds more water vapor than cold. These things are happening with a one-degree increase and going to two degrees won't be twice as bad, the increase in damage won't be linear, it most certainly will be exponential. So it was precisely the wrong moment to elect Trump.

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ice, Sea

  Source: therumpus.net

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• But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.

  David Ricardo

  Fall, Luxury, Wages

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.146

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• Act always so as to increase the number of choices

  Heinz von Foerster

  Numbers, Choices

  Heinz Von Foerster (1984). “Observing Systems”

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• I live in the same house I purchased in 1971 for $22,500. I think we need to increase the minimum wage and so all my neighbors can get an increase in their wages.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Thinking, House, Needs

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• Raising minimum wage doesn't just benefit the workers behind me, it creates a proven ripple effect that increases wages all the way up the scale. ... Let's get the facts straight, only 20 percent of people making the minimum wage are teenagers. The rest are hardworking adults, many of them with families, and I mean hardworking.

  Joe Biden

  Teenager, Mean, People

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• Prepare for every negotiation... 1) Focus on Outcomes. What is it that you want to walk away with? Being as specific as possible also increases the likelihood of negotiation success. 2) Support your desired outcome with data that points to its reasonableness. 3) Writing down your key points in advance - and practicing them - enables you to stay focused on what's most important and avoid going off on tangents. 4) Err on the side of asking for more, rather than less [of what you really want]. 5) Be willing to walk away.

  Lois P Frankel

  Writing, Keys, Data

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• For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.

  Laurent Fabius

  Technology, Long, Would Be

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• The elimination of horrible disease, the increase of the quality of lives (for humans and for animals) achieved through research using animals is so incalculably great that the argument of these critics, systematically pursued, establishes not their conclusion but its reverse: to refrain from using animals in biomedical research is, on utilitarian grounds, morally wrong.

  Carl Cohen

  Animal, Quality, Research

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• Typical pay increases are not enough to motivate employees, but they are enough to irritate them. … Even when companies create seemingly significant pay differentiation between low and high performers, the actual cash increase is insufficient to sustain performance – or it drives the wrong behaviors. … Effective management is a system, not a pay plan. The mistake is that companies try to solve all their problems with pay.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Mistake, Trying, Typical

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