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• The challenge for any government is how do you do two things at the same time. How do you put money forward for things like the payroll tax holiday, for things like getting a jump-start on infrastructure, for building schools, and make the decisions for long-term deficit reduction.

  Jacob Lew

  School, Holiday, Two

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.

  Randal Cremer

  War, People, Armament

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• I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

  Carrie Fisher

  Pain, Addiction, Mind

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject.

  Hedi Slimane

  Emotion, Intimacy, Distraction

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction.... I wish to avoid [splitting our party]. I shall do all in my power to retain the corporation tax as it is now and also force a reduction of the [tariff] schedules. It is only when all other efforts fail that I'll resort to headlines and force the people into this fight.

  William Howard Taft

  Party, Fighting, People

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• In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I'm saying.

  Etgar Keret

  Dog, Israel, People

  "My country right and wrong". Interview With Rory McCarthy, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2008.

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• Anarchism is that political philosophy which advocates the maximization of individual responsibility and the reduction of concentrated power regal, dictatorial, parliamentary: the institutions which go loosely by the name of "government" to a vanishing minimum.

  Alex Comfort

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Government

  In the Preface of "People Without Government" by Harold Barclay, p. 7, 1982.

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• If you want to make a substantial reduction in your carbon footprint, doing it on your own is virtually impossible, especially if you're driving a car. Here are tools available in the marketplace, enabling our customers to have this conversation.

  Tom Arnold

  Carbon Footprint, Tools, Enabling

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• We stand for the dismantling of foreign military bases. We stand for a reduction of armed forces and armaments in areas where military confrontation is especially dangerous, above all in central Europe.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Military, Europe, Armament

  "Voices of Tomorrow : The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union". Book by Jessica Smith, p. 30, 1971.

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• The US and UK governments' relentless backing for the global spread of genetically modified seeds was in fact the implementation of a decades long policy of the Rockefeller Foundation since the 1930's, when it funded Nazi eugenics research - i.e. mass-scale population reduction, and control of darker-skinned races by an Anglo-Saxon white elite. As some of these circles saw it, war as a means of population reduction was costly and not that efficient.

  F. William Engdahl

  War, Mean, Eugenics

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• How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

  Bill Vaughan

  Tombstone, Names, Two

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• The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Risk, Development, Corporations

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, Commitment, Competition

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1971). “The new industrial state”, Houghton Mifflin

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• The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible to the actual.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Transition, Wave

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• Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Introduction, Absurdity, Concepts

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• The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all life to a perfectly composed and dynamic miniature - a microcosm where there is perfect balance of emotion and intellect, stress and strain resolving itself, form rhythmically poised in three dimensions.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Stress, Perfect

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• It may also be pertinent to ask whether a greater effort in the less expensive basic stages of research may not lead to reductions of effort in the far costlier stages of development and prototype construction.

  Alan Tower Waterman

  Effort, May, Research

  "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" Vol. 9, No. 2, published by by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc., (p. 38), March 1953.

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• Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the diminution of capital. Every reduction of capital is therefore necessarily followed by a less effective demand for corn, by a fall in price, and by a diminished cultivation.

  Thomas Malthus

  Fall, Population, Demand

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• Art is precisely that condition which pertains when, after all analysis and reduction to parts has taken place, there remains a 'quality' which is more than the sum of those parts, which could not exist in any other form, and which cannot be caught, or held, or contained.

  Douglas Portway

  Art, Taken, Quality

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• The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  War, Fighting, Poverty

  Marian Wright Edelman (1987). “Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical.

  Giovanni Bisignani

  Oil, Cost, Gains

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• Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

  Gertrude Stein

  Forensics, Eloquence

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “How to Write”, p.386, Courier Corporation

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• the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.

  Ouida

  Wall, Moving, Government

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• A lot of the things that we passed in the energy policy were embedded in law, and they resulted in tremendous reductions in waste of energy in all kinds of things.

  Jimmy Carter

  Law, Energy, Waste

  "The Tavis Smiley Show', www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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• The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is today universal) actively promotes the absorption of the small man by the great, the reduction of small property owners to a proletarian condition.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Credit

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.97, TAN Books

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