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• The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mother, People, Drug

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got.

  Franklin Raines

  Stimulus, Be Careful, Rate

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• More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.

  Elton Gallegly

  Horse, Pregnancy, United States

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• He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

  Michael Feinstein

  Names, Numbers, People

  "Music fans celebrate Gershwin's many contributions". www.cnn.com. September 25, 1998.

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• In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.

  David F. Houston

  Country, Sweet, Animal

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• Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Sea, Office

  Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934) p. 34

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• War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, War, Doe

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• No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

  Thomas Malthus

  Forever, Earth, May

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.9, University of Michigan Press

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• We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Used, Chiefs

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.71, Vanderbilt University Press

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• I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

  James Q. Wilson

  Believe, Pay, Crime

  "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1, 1995.

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• It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Men, Debt

  Epistulae ad Familiares, II, 6, 2, 43 BC.

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• We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.

  Adam Schiff

  Numbers, Troops, Engagement

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• The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

  James Monroe

  Important, Population, Unions

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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• I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources.

  Lois Capps

  Years, Energy, Alternatives

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• A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

  Fanny Burney

  Ambition, Expectations, Mind

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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• Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.

  Frank Herbert

  Numbers, Space, Molecules

  Frank Herbert (2011). “Dune Messiah: The Second Dune Novel”, p.141, Hachette UK

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• You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.

  Deborah Bull

  Ballet, Training, Example

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• to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

  Fanny Burney

  Expectations, Enjoyment, Diminish

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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• The increase in the world's population represents our victory over death.

  Julian Simon

  Victory, Population, World

  "Hoodwinking the Nation".

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• Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

  Jane Addams

  Doe, Charity, Moral

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.227, Courier Corporation

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• Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

  William Shenstone

  Beauty, Opposites, Simplicity

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on men and manners”, p.150

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• Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.

  William Weld

  Senior, Years, Income

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• War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

  Thomas Paine

  Wisdom, Money, Motivation

  Prospects on the Rubicon (1787)

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• As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

  Charles Morgan

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

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  Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

  John Adams

  Leadership, Character, Persistence

  "I’ll Vote for That" by Katharine Rose, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2015.

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