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• Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

  Nick Cave

  Levels, Texting, Apocalyptic

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• Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think most people would argue that probably more needs to be done on that front, and they've just begun to take the first steps to accepting that there's going to have to be much closer economic integration in Europe.

  Vince Cable

  Thinking, Europe, Issues

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• In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.

  Terence McKenna

  Animal, Keys, Psychology

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• I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has been a good thing, its extermination would be a very bad one, and that the conservation of wilderness is the most urgent and difficult of all the tasks that confront us, because there are no economic laws to help and many to hinder its accomplishment.

  Aldo Leopold

  Law, Accomplishment, Tasks

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• I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we need to do if we're going to make a contribution to a global reduction in greenhouse gases, without putting a price on carbon.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Believe, Moving, Australia

  "Malcolm Turnbull, Member for Wentworth". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 30, 2010.

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• Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

  Max Weber

  Unity, Administration, Cost

  Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.214, Routledge

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• All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Zero, Distance, Government

  "Going global: social innovation" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2010.

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• The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions of the franchise, their effect being to place the principal power in the hands of classes more and more below the highest level of instruction in the community.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, Hands, Class

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Considerations on Representative Government”, p.196, John Stuart Mill

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• Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Poetry, Expansion

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• The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Heart, Angel

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal.

  Tom Robbins

  Yoga, Effort, Drug

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• We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Self, Ego

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• I had a breast reduction.

  Patti Stanger

  Breasts

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• Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Long, Levels, Eras

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• Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent

  Amartya Sen

  Progress, Deprivation, Enrichment

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• The Depression, which started in 1929 was rather mild from 1929 to 1930. And, indeed, in my opinion would have been over in 1931 at the latest had it not been that the Federal Reserve followed a policy which led to bank failures, widespread bank failures, and led to a reduction in the quantity of money.

  Milton Friedman

  Opinion, Federal Reserve, Policy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world's poorest people.

  John Ricard

  Country, Health Education, Poverty Reduction

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• Our task is tough, and our time is limited. Party organizations and governments at all levels must give priority to emission reduction and bring the idea deep into people's hearts.

  Hu Jintao

  Party, Heart, Government

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• We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first - and that takes time. But we must do this quickly - the climate will not wait for us.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Responsibility, Waiting, Energy

  Rupert Murdoch's Speech on Carbon Neutrality, www.theaustralian.com.au. May 10, 2007.

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• In reality, those who deny climate change and demand a halt to emissions reduction and mitigation work, want us to take a huge gamble with the future of every human being on the planet, every future human being, our children and grand children, and every other living species

  Edward Davey

  Children, Reality, Demand

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• The only real form of pollution is people. Any ecological system which does not include the reduction or stopping of growth of the population is eyewash

  Heinz Wolff

  Real, People, Growth

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• But on the other hand, if you come under circumstances where each person is entitled to a pro-rata share of the pot, to take an extreme example, or even to a low level of the pie, than the effect of that situation is that free immigration, would mean a reduction of everybody to the same, uniform level. Of course, I'm exaggerating, it wouldn't go quite that far, but it would go in that direction. And it is that perception, that leads people to adopt what at first seems like inconsistent values.

  Milton Friedman

  Mean, Hands, Pie

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• A drastic reduction in the deficit...will take place in the fiscal year '82.

  Ronald Reagan

  Years, Economy, Deficit

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• Over the period from 1988 to 2005, the income share of the top five percent has grown by about 3.5 percent of global household income, and the shares of all the other groups have diminished. The greatest relative reduction was in the bottom quarter, which lost about one third of its share of global household income, declining from 1.155 to 0.775 percent, and now is even more marginalized.

  Thomas Pogge

  Groups, Income, Share

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Loneliness, Emotional, People

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