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• As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead,
  For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said.
  Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Ephemeral, Tablets

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.328, Hayes Barton Press

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• Any Democrat who squirms on the tax-cut issue in the primaries has no chance ' zero ' to win the nomination. Each will have to take the “pledge” to oppose the Bush tax cuts. Thus, Bush will have succeeded in creating a situation where anyone who can win the nomination can't win the election. Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

  Dick Morris

  Zero, Cutting, Winning

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• The right to live does not connote the right of each man to reproduce his kind ... As we lessen the stringency of natural selection, and more and more of the weaklings and the unfit survive, we must increase the standard, mental and physical, of parentage.

  Karl Pearson

  Men, Doe, Kind

  Karl Pearson (1912). “Darwinism, Medical Progress and Eugenics: The Cavendish Lecture, 1912, an Address to the Medical Profession”

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• Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.

  Denis Dutton

  Art, Self Esteem, Museums

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• In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation.

  John Tukey

  World, Economics, Fractions

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• Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Mind, Employment, Pleasure

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• Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population ... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.

  Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

  Mother, Rights, Abortion

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• We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Rights, Issues, Needs

  "Now Is the Time. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Labor in the South: The Case for a Coalition". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., Statement on minimum wage legislation (March 18, 1966), January 1986.

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• Dignity increases more easily than it begins.

  Seneca the Younger

  Dignity

  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius)". Book by Seneca the Younger (letter CI), circa 65 AD.

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• The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Reading, Ignorance, Thinking

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3589, 谷月社

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• • As society rapidly changes, individuals will have to be able to function comfortably in a world that is always in flux. Knowledge will continue to increase at a dizzying rate. This means that a content-based curriculum, with a set body of information to be imparted to students, is entirely inappropriate as a means of preparing children for their adult roles.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Mean, Adults

  John Taylor Gatto (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.13, New Society Publishers

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• As love increases, prudence diminishes.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Intrigue, Prudence, Diminish

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• Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friends, Self, Judging

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• Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  And Love, Lasts, Proportion

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• As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Age, Folly

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• The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.

  Carl Jung

  Attitude, Intellectual, Monsters

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, R. F.C. Hull (1954). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then quarrel with them when they are grown up, for having been spoiled; some love them like mothers, and attend only to the bodily health and strength of the hopes of their family, solemnize his birthday, and rejoice, like the subjects of the Great Mogul, at the increase of his bulk: while others, minding, as they think, only essentials, take pains and pleasure to see in their heir, all their favourite weaknesses and imperfections.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love, Family, Mother

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.459

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• For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Years, People, Quality

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• A poor American feels guilty at being poor, but less guilty than an American rentier who has inherited wealth but is doing nothingto increase it; what can the latter do but take to drink and psychoanalysis?

  W. H. Auden

  Guilt, Wealth, Drink

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• Thomas Edison reads not for entertainment but to increase his store of knowledge. He sucks in information as eagerly as the bee sucks honey from flowers. The whole world, so to speak, pours its wisdom into his mind. He regards it as a criminal waste of time to go through the slow and painful ordeal of ascertaining things for one's self if these same things have already been ascertained and made available by others. In Edison's mind knowledge is power.

  B. C. Forbes

  Flower, Science, Self

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• New Year, the season for changes in positions and advances in salaries, approaches. If you have in your employ some who deserve more salary, do not compel them to go through the unpleasant ordeal of asking a raise, but, rather, voluntarily increase their remuneration. A raise that comes from the boss without asking is worth a lot more than one that has to be gouged out of him. Is it not true that a great many employers who would not dream of overcharging their customers have no qualms whatever about underpaying their employees if the latter will submit without protest?

  B. C. Forbes

  Dream, New Year, Deserve More

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• The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.

  B. C. Forbes

  Real, Men, Years

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• It is easier to start taxes than to stop them. A tax an inch long can easily become a yard long. That has been the history of the income tax. Would not the sales tax be likely to have a similar history [in the U.S.]? ... Canadian newspapers report that an increase in the sales tax threatens to drive the Mackenzie King administration out of office. Canada began with a sales tax of 2%.... Starting this month the tax is 6%. The burden, in other words, has already been increased 200% ... What the U.S. needs is not new taxes, is not more taxes, but fewer and lower taxes.

  B. C. Forbes

  Kings, Long, Office

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• Where there is no compassion, crime increases.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Compassion, Crime, No Compassion

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• Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there's going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.

  Ben Bernanke

  Cutting, Law, Important

  "Highlights: Bernanke's Q&A testimony to House panel". Ben Bernanke's remarks during the House Committee on Financial Services hearing at Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., www.reuters.com. February 29, 2012.

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