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• Shale gas represents a promising new potential energy resource for the UK. It could contribute significantly to our energy security, reducing our reliance on imported gas, as we move to a low-carbon economy.

  Edward Davey

  Moving, Energy, Economy

  "George Osborne questioned by MPs about autumn statement: Politics live blog" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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• The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Oil, Reliance

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• ... the consensus of the scientific community has shifted from skepticism to near-unanimous acceptance of the evidence of an artificial greenhouse effect. Second, while artificial climate change may have some beneficial effects, the odds are we're not going to like it. Third, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases may turn out to be much more practical and affordable than currently assumed.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Acceptance, Odds, Community

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• With this information, in light of the increasing human demands on vegetation, it is my personal opinion that capping CO2 emissions or reducing them to some prior level would be akin to 'biting the hand that feeds us.

  Keith E. Idso

  Light, Personal Opinions, Hands

  "Co2: Villain Or Friend? An Exclusive Interview With Keith E. Idso". Interview with Bonner Cohen, www.heartland.org. January 1, 1999.

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• When leaders carry out policies for decades that have no consequences for the stated goal and are very costly, you have to ask whether they are telling you the truth or whether the policies are for a different goal, because they are not reducing drug use.

  Noam Chomsky

  Drug Use, Goal, Leader

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• Fear is a big reason. Ultra achievers don't have an attitude for overcoming fear. They just do it anyway, because they're okay with being afraid. Instead of putting energy into reducing fear, they confront it with action.

  Rory Vaden

  Attitude, Overcoming, Energy

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• Students need to learn how to unlearn those elements of a market driven society that deform their sense of agency, reducing them to simply consumers or even worse to elements of a disposable population. So we need to understand who controls the means of public education and the larger forms of what Raymond Williams called the cultural apparatuses of permanent education both in terms of the dangers they pose and the possibilities they harbor.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Agency, Population

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money.

  Carly Fiorina

  Moving, Government, Reform

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• I don't believe in the theory that the United States is reducing its presence in the Middle East. Quite the contrary, in the Gulf, we see an increase in American military presence, as well as an increase in American investments. The argument is more accurate when one says America is focusing more attention to the Far East. But I don't believe it comes at the expense of the Middle East.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Military, Believe, America

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Self, Car, World

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Let's look at lending, where they're using big data for the credit side. And it's just credit data enhanced, by the way, which we do, too. It's nothing mystical. But they're very good at reducing the pain points. They can underwrite it quicker using - I'm just going to call it big data, for lack of a better term: "Why does it take two weeks? Why can't you do it in 15 minutes?"

  Jamie Dimon

  Pain, Data, Two

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's the 21st century and music doesn't mean the same things to people and that it's so disposable.

  Alan Light

  Song, Mean, Idols

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet. One leads to ecological collapse. The other is a reversion, in many ways, to poverty.

  Ramez Naam

  Energy, Climate, Burning

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• As the newspaper industry continues to contract, one of the most commonly voiced fears is that serious investigative journalism will be among the victims of the scaleback. And, indeed, many newspapers are drastically reducing their investigative teams.

  Arianna Huffington

  Team, Serious, Journalism

  "Announcing the Launch of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund" By Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2009.

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• When workers make more money, they respond by being more productive in their jobs and are less likely to leave, reducing turnover costs. This puts money in business' pockets, and workers also then have more money to spend in the local economy.

  David Rolf

  Jobs, Pockets, Cost

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• By speeding the transition to cleaner energy, we can improve the lives of billions of people, while also reducing the risks we face from a changing climate.

  Michael Bloomberg

  People, Risk, Energy

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• One of the reasons the United States has actually been reducing its emissions in recent years is actually that there's been a boom in natural gas. It's displacing coal. It emits less carbon dioxide when you burn it. This is not really an Obama policy. It's just something that happened because of technology and the free market.

  Chris Mooney

  Technology, Years, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Domesticity has been a challenge for me but painful as it's been, engaging with family has been a school for reducing solipsism and increasing my understanding of people's different reactions to stress.

  Phillip Lopate

  Stress, School, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's expense.

  Catherine Wilson

  Moral, Advantage, Interest

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Under my plan, I'll be reducing taxes tremendously, from 35 percent to 15 percent for companies, small and big businesses. That's going to be a job creator like we haven't seen since Ronald Reagan. It's going to be a beautiful thing to watch.

  Donald Trump

  Beautiful, Jobs, Watches

  First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I think wherever we can cooperate with Russia, that's fine. And I did as secretary of state. That's how we got a treaty reducing nuclear weapons. It's how we got the sanctions on Iran that put a lid on the Iranian nuclear program without firing a single shot.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Russia, Iran

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• Some philosophers have begun writing sympathetically about predator elimination as a way of reducing animal suffering. From an environmental perspective this is somewhere between naïve and potentially disastrous.

  Dale Jamieson

  Writing, Animal, Perspective

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I worry that even well-intentioned attempts to "improve nature" (say by reducing suffering) will make things worse even in their own terms.

  Dale Jamieson

  Worry, Suffering, Term

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In middle age I've begun to embrace stress reducing behaviors. Just in doing yoga, for example, my health has improved dramatically.

  James Redford

  Stress, Yoga, Age

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Building on the public's unwillingness to act on principle in support of market solutions to apparent problems, whether real or imagined, these interest groups secure arbitrary restrictions on voluntary exchanges and, in the process, secure rents for their members while reducing both the liberties and economic well being of other members of the economic nexus, both domestically and internationally.

  James M. Buchanan

  Philosophy, Real, Political

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