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  The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.

  Herbert Hoover

  Presidential, Economics, Should

  Herbert Hoover (1937*). “American ideals and the New deal ... eight addresses upon pressing national problems”

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• The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones.

  Georg Simmel

  Determination, People, World

  Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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