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• Forward thinking companies that adapt positively to the sustainable business agenda will be at the forefront of resource productivity, reducing waste and of environmental reporting. They and their management teams make things happen ahead of their competitors

  Michael Meacher

  Business, Team, Thinking

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• Reducing your life down to three pairs of jeans, two skirts, a couple of shirts, and a few pairs of shoes was so nice for me. I really loved living in this tiny room where I didnt have space for anything. It sounds really lame, but it made me feel a lot more free, because I just didnt have as many choices.

  Emma Watson

  Couple, Nice, Jeans

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• We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vision. What if humans designed products and systems that celebrate an abundance of human creativity, culture, and productivity? That are so intelligent and safe, our species leaves an ecological footprint to delight in, not lament?

  William McDonough

  Creativity, Intelligent, Vision

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• Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Knowing, Progress

  Karen Wilkin, Georges Braque (1991). “Georges Braque”

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• The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.

  Kingsley Amis

  Degrees, Weight, Requirements

  Kingsley Amis (2010). “Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis”, p.90, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.

  Willem de Kooning

  Horse, Pain, Drama

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• We believe in the Three Rs - reducing the consumption of meat and other animal-based foods; refining the diet by eating products only from methods of production, transport, and slaughter that minimize pain and distress; and replacing meat and other animal-based foods in the diet with plant-based foods.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Pain, Believe, Animal

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• Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when it comes to immigration, the single biggest contributor to population growth in the industrial world, they stand largely silent.

  Gary Bauer

  Keys, Rights, Support

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• When overpowering authority or leadership intervenes in a team, it can affect the team by (1) throwing the team off track, (2) decreasing the motivation of the team, (3) reducing the commitment of the team members, and (4) causing more problems than solutions.

  J. Richard Hackman

  Teamwork, Motivation, Commitment

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• "Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum... In a world of hyperabundant content, point of view will become the scarcest of resources...

  Paul Saffo

  Views, Age, Information

  "It's The Context, Stupid" by Paul Saffo, www.wired.com. March 1, 1994.

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• Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children.

  Madeleine Bunting

  Children, Cutting, Car

  "Greens Need to Grasp the Nettle: Aren't There Just Too Many People?". www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2007.

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• Despite what many nutritionists have preached for years, rapid weight-loss diets can be healthy if done correctly and can work wonders on reducing pounds and inches in just days.

  Mike Moreno

  Loss, Years, Healthy

  Mike Moreno (2013). “The 17 Day Diet Breakthrough Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not a question of arriving and putting in a whole new administration, but instead, arriving and "compacting" things as much as possible, reducing management layers. We want as few management layers as possible, so that executives are very close to the operations. We also don't believe in having big corporate infrastructures.

  Carlos Slim

  Believe, Arriving, Want

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• Chile needs to unite behind the goals of reducing poverty and creating more equal opportunities so that everyone can benefit from what the country has to offer.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Country, Opportunity, Creating

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• You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you're discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.

  Nelson Mandela

  Ideas, People, Relaxation

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.198, Pan Macmillan

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• Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.

  Bill Gates

  Strong, Opportunity, Discovery

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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• Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.

  Jerome Bruner

  Memories, Loss, Ideas

  Jerome S. Bruner (2006). “In Search of Pedagogy Volume I: The Selected Works of Jerome Bruner, 1957-1978”, p.46, Routledge

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• Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.

  Daniel Goleman

  Empathy, May, Gaps

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• The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

  Rajneesh

  Capacity To Love, People, Looks

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• Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.

  Clifford Geertz

  People, Understanding, Culture

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• I am convinced that most companies don't maximize their barter possibilities. Instead of aggressively reducing costs by trading their services with those of their suppliers, they seem content to pay top dollar for everything.

  Mark McCormack

  Business, Pay, Dollars

  Mark H. McCormack (1990). “What They Still Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School”, Bantam

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• High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company but the entire economy... LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power to do many things. It has no margin for error and less margin for additional risk.

  Franco Modigliani

  Errors, Safety, Risk

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• The securitisation of mortgages added a new dimension of systemic risk. Financial engineers claimed they were reducing risks through geographic diversification: in fact they were increasing them by creating an agency problem. The agents were more interested in maximising fee income than in protecting the interests of bondholders. That is the verity that was ignored by regulators and market participants alike.

  George Soros

  Creating, Agency, Risk

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• I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, Government, Roles

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• Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated, we're not going to be the most powerful for very long.

  Kent Conrad

  Powerful, America, Long

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