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• In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them to their elements. Understanding proceeds from the whole to its parts, not from the parts to the whole as knowledge does.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Thinking, Understanding, Doe

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• We're not just discussing limits on a further increase of nuclear weapons; we seek, instead, to reduce their number. We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Numbers, One Day, Nuclear

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

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• As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?

  Arthur F. Burns

  School, Mind, May

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• The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

  Robin Williams

  Age, Madness

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• It is true that the faith, which I am enabled to exercise, is altogether God's own gift; it is true that He alone supports it, and that He alone can increase it; it is true that, moment by moment, I depend upon Him for it, and that, if I were only one moment left to myself, my faith would utterly fail.

  George Muller

  Exercise, Support, Failing

  George Muller (2013). “Answers to Prayer From George Müller's Narratives (Start Classics)”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.

  Johan Cruijff

  Player, Games, Giving

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• Crucial to how we feel is being aware of how we are feeling in the moment. The sine qua non of that is to realize that you are being emotional in the first place. The earlier you recognize an emotion, the more choice you will have in dealing with it. In Buddhist terms, it's recognizing the spark before the flame. In Western terms, it's trying to increase the gap between impulse and saying or doing something you might regret later.

  Paul Ekman

  Buddhist, Regret, Emotional

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• [D]ebt increases that didn't arise either from war or from extraordinary financial crisis are entirely associated with hard-line conservative governments.

  Paul Krugman

  War, Government, Lines

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• While I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Revenge, Mean, Race

  Bertrand Russell, Kenneth Blackwell (2008). “The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell”

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• Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; 'Light momentary affliction.'

  David Platt

  Pain, Light, Church

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• If you're living hand-to-mouth, and still buying into the con that the big threats to America are socialized medicine, Mexican immigrants and tax increases, then you're not being kept down by the rich. You're being kept down by you.

  Bill Maher

  Hands, Medicine, America

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• Without sattva you can never reach the Supreme.
  Wherever you are, in whatever station, from there you have to reach sattva in varying degrees because tamas will be reduced only when the mind's agitations, vikshepas are quietened. As agitations quieten, sattva increases slowly.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Mind, Degrees, Agitation

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• All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Men, Discovery, Causes

  Laurence J. Peter (1972). “The Peter prescription: how to be creative, confident & competent”

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• [Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.

  Barney Frank

  Government, Trying, Roles

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• Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.

  Janice Rogers Brown

  Government, World, Size

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• The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Support, Speech, Vote

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• The worst thing the federal government could do is to increase the size, reach and cost of government. If government failed in its response to the hurricane, the answer is not more inefficient government.

  Cal Thomas

  Government, Cost, Answers

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• One of the dirty little secrets of the stock market rally is that the rising corporate profits that powered it are largely phantom profits. They are artifacts of currency devaluation, not an increase in efficiency or production of goods and services.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Dirty, Secret, Rising

  "Phantom Profits Will Vanish As The Dollar Strengthens" by Charles Hugh Smith, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2012.

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• Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.

  June Jordan

  Purpose, Durability, Occasions

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• Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression.

  Milton Friedman

  Produce, Rapids, Decrease

  Milton Friedman (1994). “Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When our people were fed out of the common store, and laboured jointly together, glad was he could slip from his labour, or slumber over his taske he cared not how, nay, the most honest among them would hardly take so much true paines in a weeke, as now for themselves they will doe in a day: neither cared they for the increase, presuming that howsoever the harvest prospered, the generall store must maintaine them, so that wee reaped not so much Corne from the labours of thirtie, as now three or foure doe provide for themselves.

  John Smith

  People, Together, Doe

  John Smith (2006). “Generall Historie of Virginia Vol 1: New England & the Summer Isles”, p.222, Applewood Books

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• Private enterprise is not as spectacular nor as easy to see as the socialist way of temporarily diffusing poverty by eating up the seed corn - the tools - which will increase poverty in the long run.

  Raymond C. Hoiles

  Running, Long, Tools

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• The financial history of the last century shows a steady increase in the amount of public indebtedness. Nobody believes that the states will eternally drag the burden of these interest payments. It is obvious that sooner or later all these debts will be liquidated in some way or other, but certainly not by payment of interest and principal according to the terms of the contract.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Believe, Debt, Way

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.282, Lulu Press, Inc

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• You cannot cover the 50 million new people Obama seeks to cover without more doctors and nurses. But the administration and even the Blue Dogs in the House have proposed nothing to add to the supply of medical services even as they plan vastly to increase the demand by covering new people.

  Dick Morris

  Dog, Blue, Doctors

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• Obama has paid and will continue to pay dearly for betting on his stimulus package. Because of it, the Bush recession is becoming the Obama recession much faster than it would have had he adopted a more gradual approach to solving economic problems. By jumping in immediately, as he did, in order to increase government spending and pass eight years of Democratic dreams in one day, he made the public expect a solution.

  Dick Morris

  Dream, Jumping, Eight

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