Reduction Quotes

• True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Lying, Civilization, Doe

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• Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

  Judith Guest

  Depression, Simple, Giving

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.225, Penguin

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• Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.

  Donella Meadows

  Science, Agreement, Climate

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• A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.

  Ted Turner

  Nwo, Eugenics, People

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• Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

  David R. Brower

  Government, Parent, Historical

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• You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.5, Random House

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• By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.

  Moshe Sharett

  Hands, Majority, Immigration

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• Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Responsibility, People, Promise

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• I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year.

  Carly Fiorina

  Opportunity, Thinking, Years

  "Battle for the Senate on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Believe, Agreement, Important

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.331, Best Books on

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• I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

  Placido Domingo

  Piano, Score

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• I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.

  Cliff Stearns

  Believe, Long, Social

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• If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

  Prince Philip

  Ebola, Wish, Viruses

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• The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. ...The real enemy then is humanity itself.

  Aurelio Peccei

  Real, Men, Kyoto Protocol

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• The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our own narrow self-interest, it is as if we open an inner door. It reduces fear, boosts confidence and brings us inner strength. By reducing distrust, it opens us to others and brings us a sense of connection to others, and sense of purpose and meaning in life.

  Dalai Lama

  Strength, Confidence, Buddhist

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• Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.

  Jon Elster

  Heart, Progress, Progress In Science

  Jon Elster (1989). “Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no food security, no poverty reduction, no environmental sustainability without transforming our agricultural practices. The book ?presents well documented cases of best practices from all over the world. It should be required reading for all concerned with agriculture, the environment, food security or just the future of our children.

  Ismail Serageldin

  Children, Book, Reading

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• A review of the science suggests that uncertainty is so high as to raise a good prospect that mandatory green house gas reductions will produce little or no environmental benefit.

  Kenneth P. Green

  House, Environmental, Benefits

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• The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.

  James Burnham

  Hunger And Poverty, Egalitarianism, Economic

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• You’re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I object to the whole reduction idea…if my work is reductionist it’s because it doesn’t have the elements that people thought should be there. But it has other elements I like.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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• With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season.

  David Stern

  Left, Seasons

  "First 2 weeks of NBA's regular season canceled" by K.C. Johnson, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 10, 2011.

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• Options other than mastectomy include high risk surveillance and risk reduction. Surveillance is a combination of monthly self breast exam, annual mammography and whole breast screening ultrasound, annual breast MRI, and biannual clinical breast exam.

  Kristi Funk

  Self, Ultrasounds, Risk

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Any company run by unknowing and mechanistic minds is in jeopardy and faces a limited life. Specifically, the pursuance of policies that focus on cost reduction and a continued optimisation of the bottom line just accelerate progress towards sudden death

  Peter Cochrane

  Running, Focus, Mind

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• Risk reduction for BRCA2 carriers includes taking tamoxifen. Removing ovaries prior to age 40 drops breast cancer risk in half. Ovarian cancer surveillance is unfortunately inadequate at early detection, but birth control pills reduce ovarian cancer incidence up to 60%.

  Kristi Funk

  Cancer, Risk, Age

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise consumption by major reduction ofindividualincometaxrates.

  John F. Kennedy

  Important, Today, Investment

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