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Start first and increase your lead.

Buddy Melges

Firsts

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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 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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But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.

Stefan Zweig

Knowledge, Achievement, Creative

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Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore the extraordinary is always the measure of all greatness. And the creative element always remains the value superior to all others and the mind superior to our minds.

Stefan Zweig

Creativity, Greatness, Creative

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Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

Thomas Malthus

Ratios, Subsistence

Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.47, Penguin UK

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Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.

Yasmin Mogahed

Forgiving, Deeds, Sin

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Winning is in your DNA. The most high God breathed His life into you. You've got what it takes. This is your time. This is your moment. Shake off doubts, shake off fear and insecurity, and get ready for favor, get ready for increase, get ready for the fullness of your destiny. You can, you will!!

Joel Osteen

Winning, Destiny, Dna

Joel Osteen (2014). “You Can, You Will: 8 Undeniable Qualities of a Winner”, p.114, Hachette UK

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As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

Khalil Gibran

Friends, Decrease

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The most fearful phenomenon of these midcentury years is not the atom bomb; atomic energy does have its constructive possibilities.... The most fearful event of these times is the colossal expansion of the government of the United States and the constant increase of executive power within the government.

Wheeler McMillen

Government, Years, America

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I think the experience of getting an audience a little bit tense and shocking them with a jump scare, and then moving on it can be cheap and easy. The harder thing is to get them unnerved and disturbed in a growing way. That starts off easy and increases all the way through the picture.

C. Robert Cargill

Moving, Thinking, Scare

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As we increase in our awareness and our integration of Self the process of integration grows and expands as we begin to incorporate the fullness of our nature, that of our spiritual nature or our Soul.

Genevieve

Spiritual, Self, Soul

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This week the White House proposed fingerprinting and photographing foreign visitors so they can do background checks. Officials in Saudi Arabia said this will only increase anti-American feelings in the Mideast. Is that possible? Gee, you hate to have people dislike us for no reason. Things were going so well.

Jay Leno

Hate, White, People

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The funding of mobile first companies will increase significantly.

Keith Teare

Firsts, Funding, Company

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A proactive person needs no pressure to perform and an ineffective person offloads his pressure onto others to deform the positive work culture of the system. So practically, a progressive organization knows that no pressure environment plays a pivotal role to increase the productivity or proficiency of its workforce.

Anuj

Play, Organization, Needs

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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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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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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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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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