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• A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.

  Alphonse Karr

  Sex, Book, Writing

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• Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

  Jane Goodall

  Size, Women's Education, Planets

  "Jane Goodall Works To Help Humans, Too". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. February 12, 2010.

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• When you have a bad suspicion about a Muslim in your heart, you should increase your consideration toward him and make dua for him. This way you will infuriate Satan and will be able to drive him away. Because of this, Satan will be reluctant to put evil thoughts into your heart, afraid that you would increase your consideration towards your brother and will make dua for him again.

  Al-Ghazali

  Brother, Heart, Evil

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• We, as a nation, cannot wait for the Pearl Harbor of the information age. We must increase our vigilance to tackle this problem before we are hit with a surprise attack.

  Fred Thompson

  Waiting, Age, Pearls

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• In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low.

  Dave Reichert

  Years, Population, Washington State

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• Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

  Sallust

  Fall, Decay

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• What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Children, Real, Impact

  "World Bank Issues Alarming Climate Report". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 7, 2012.

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• As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

  Derek Bok

  Country, Cost, Maintaining

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• What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

  Susan Cain

  Mistake, Tasks, Looks

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.85, Broadway Books

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• Turkeys energy bill due to imports will fall with the increase in use of renewable energy sources. We have no control over the prices of petroleum and natural gas.

  Ali Babacan

  Fall, Turkeys, Bills

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• I want to have different Ferraris for different Ferraristi. We have a lot of parallel activities that can increase revenues without being obliged to produce more cars.

  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

  Car, Want, Ferrari

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• In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.

  Paul Lafargue

  Rights, Numbers, Political

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• Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production.

  Paul Lafargue

  Order, Law, May

  Paul Lafargue (2016). “The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies”, p.12, Library of Alexandria

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• Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

  Jason Epstein

  Technology, Bookstores, Inventory

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• Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, College, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.325, Bantam Classics

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• Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.

  Steven Weber

  Smart, Commitment, Space

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• Start first and increase your lead.

  Buddy Melges

  Firsts

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• More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Payroll Tax, Benefits, Trends

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• Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Strong, Land, Growth

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• There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

  Emily Oster

  Birth Defects, Risk, Gardening

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• The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Age, Disease, Related

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• What we are saying is that on top of the warming trend there is a long-periodic oscillation that will probably lead to a lower temperature increase than we would expect from the current trend during the next years.

  Mojib Latif

  Years, Long, Trends

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• Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Writing, Poetry, Consistency

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.12, A&C Black

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• The diversity revolution [in the news media] was supposed to increase readership and enhance credibility. Just the opposite has resulted. How long will it take the business to figure this out?

  John Leo

  Media, Opposites, Long

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• Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams!

  Grant Cardone

  Dream, Giving Up, Target

  Grant Cardone (2011). “The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons

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