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“Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives around the world. The impact of a day of global ceasefire and non-violence cannot be underestimated.”

World Together Levels Violence Awareness Activity Raises Impact Around The World Non Violence Decrease Underestimated Save A Life Together We Can Ceasefire

Author:Jeremy Gilley

“In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.”

World Mean Share Environmental Goods Finite Decrease

Book:The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons

Source: The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons

“Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.”

Country Hands Society Bears Property Preserves Gentleman Resolution Estates Decrease Noblemen English Gentleman

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers' intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.”

Source: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power

“Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.”

Sin Accepting Increase Forgiving Deeds Good Deeds Decrease

Author:Yasmin Mogahed

“As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.”

Friends Increase Decrease

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers.”

World Wells Behinds Principles Research Well Being Followers Decrease World Religions

Author:Marvin Harris

“In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation.”

World Ought Prove Economics Increase Our Time Steady Calculations Fractions Decrease Theorems

Author:John Tukey

“capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the country, and therefore the excuse often made for extravagance, that it is good for trade, is based upon false notions respecting capital.”

Made Country Results Waste Economics Trade Notion Excuse Spending Saving Substance Decrease Extravagance Spendthrift

Book:Political Economy for Beginners

Source: Political Economy for Beginners

“Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population ... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.”

“Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.”

Lasts And Love Increase Proportion Prudence Decrease Inconsistent

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand.... Whoever interferes with equal rights and equal opportunities is in some real degree, responsible for the crimes committed in the community.”

“Giving, in the form of volunteer work: enhances your immune system, lowers cholesterol levels, strengthens your heart, decreases the incidence of chest pains, and generally reduces stress.”

Giving Heart Pain Form Levels Stress Chests Volunteer Immune Decrease Giving In Immune System Cholesterol Incidence Reduce Stress Volunteer Work

Book:The Power of Giving: How Giving Back Enriches Us All

Source: The Power of Giving: How Giving Back Enriches Us All

“If you're white and wealthy, Texas is a great place, however, no Texas governor Republican or Democrat is eager to raise taxes and without that you can't expand access to health care or decrease the cost of higher education.”

Ifs Care White Education Health Higher Republican Cost Taxes Raises Democrat Access Health Care Wealthy Texas Governors Decrease Higher Education

Author:Calvin Jillson

“I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.”

“I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.”

Accepting Balance Ordinary Increase Ministers Prime Prime Minister Decrease Ordinary Life Work Life Balance Life Balance

Author:Tony Abbott

“Basically, for any complex to be sustainable needs to have a balance between two factors: resilience and efficiency. These two factors can be calculated from the structure of the network that is involved in a complex system. A resilient, efficient system needs to be diverse and interconnected. On the other hand, diversity and interconnectivity decrease efficiency. Therefore, the key is an appropriate balance between efficiency and resilience.”

Needs Two Hands Keys Balance Involved Diversity Structure Complexes Resilience Factors Appropriate Efficient Diverse Efficiency Resilient Decrease Interconnected Complex Systems

Author:Bernard Lietaer

“Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting us to the perfection of virtue.”

Inspirational Use Christian Spirit Passion Religious Virtue Angel Perfection Increase Orthodox Decrease Negligence

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.”

Budgets Assumption Realistic Funding Request Decrease

Author:Scott Adams

“We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.”

Ifs Real Earth Mines Mountain Weight Increase Bottom Attraction Faster Clock Statistics Decrease

Author:Francis Bacon

“What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.”

Realizing Pleasure Materials Capacity Seeking Fulfillment Enjoyment Exhausted Decrease

Author:Alex Campbell

“I think that if people would be willing to grow some of their own food or eat locally grown organic foods on a regular basis we could significantly decrease the amount of harmful chemicals we pump into our soil every day.”

People Ifs Thinking Would Be Grows Willing Amount Bases Soil Chemicals Decrease Pumps Organic Food

Author:Gary Player

“More rationale decreases subjectivity.”

Decrease Subjectivity Rationale

Author:Sol Sender

“Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.”

Increase Decrease Ratios

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“As the proportion of people reaching higher states of consciousness increases, this inertia will decrease, and at the same time a supportive momentum in the new direction will start building up.”

People States Consciousness Building Higher Increase Proportion Reaching Supportive Momentum Decrease Inertia States Of Consciousness Building Up New Directions

Author:Peter Russell

“The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, one notes a decline in collective enthusiasm due to the effect of a quantitative diminution in each of the elements that make up the mass. Work is paralyzed until it is reduced to an insignificant level. It is time to make a correction.”

Sometimes States Whole Individual Mistake Elements Mass Enthusiasm Contribution Making Mistakes Collectives Quantity Decline Insignificant Decrease Corrections

Author:Che Guevara

“A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.”

Persons Ability Creative Degrees Direct Proportion Decrease

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Iran is undertaking a massive effort to expand its influence in southern Iraq. At the same time, that influence decreases the more the political process in Iraq progresses.”

Political Process Effort Progress Influence Iraq Iran Massive Southern Undertakings Decrease

Author:Zalmay Khalilzad

“The warming we've experienced in the late 20th century could just as easily be explained by small decreases in cloud cover - natural changes in the system - and have nothing to do with CO2.”

Natural Century Late Clouds 20th Century Decrease Co2

Author:Willie Soon

“Life and perfection, joy and repose and whatever all the senses desire, lie in the distinguishing spirit, and from it they have everything that they have. Even if the organs lose in power and the life in them decreases in activity, it does not decrease in the distinguishing spirit, from which they receive the same life, when the fault or infirmity is removed.”

Ifs Doe Joy Spirit Lying Desire Loses Activity Perfection Faults Senses Organs Repose Decrease Infirmity

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“Cost does not equal value... and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.”

Long Doe Values Cost Equal Long Time Lows Brands Equity Decrease

Author:Tom Peters

“A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might.”

Source: Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers

“We have to, in the next ten years, begin to decrease the rate of carbon dioxide emissions and then flatten it out. If that doesn't happen in ten years, we're going to be passing certain tipping points. If the ice sheets begin to disintegrate, what can you do about it? You can't tie a rope around an ice sheet.”

Ifs Years Happens Certain Next Ten Rate Passing Passings Ice Ties Carbon Sheets Rope Emissions Decrease Carbon Dioxide Tipping Tipping Point Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Author:James Hansen

“Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression.”

Produce Increase Quantity Inflation Rapids Decrease

Book:Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History

Source: Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History

“All the research shows that the presence of that phone will do two things to the conversation. It will make the conversation go to trivial matters, and it will decrease the amount of empathy that the two people in the conversation feel toward each other. That phone is a signal that either of us can put our attention elsewhere.”

People Feels Two Matter Shows Attention Amount Conversation Empathy Research Phones Two Things Elsewhere Signals Decrease

Author:Judy Woodruff

“Propaganda's content increasingly resembles information. It has even clearly been proved that a violent, excessive, shock-provoking propaganda texts leads ultimately to less conviction and participation. The listeners critical powers decrease if the propaganda message is more rational and less violent.”

Ifs Information Messages Conviction Critical Violent Rational Propaganda Shock Listeners Provoking Participation Decrease

Author:Jacques Ellul

“As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.”

Government Quality Our Lives Increase Quantity Decrease

Author:Joel Miller

“Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.”

Desire Wealth Poverty Increase Decrease

Author:Plato

“Love decreases when it ceases to increase.”

Increase Cease Decrease

Author:François-René de Chateaubriand

“When focus increases, options decrease.”

Focus Increase Decrease

Book:It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It

Source: It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It

“No matter how frustrated you may feel, there is always a way out. In every situation that arises, we choose to be powerful or powerless. It may not always feel like it, but it is a choice. And there are consequences for these choices in terms of the results we get, and the subsequent increase or decrease in our power and influence. If we choose powerlessness, it is often because we doubt there is any other option.”

Ifs Way Feels May Matter Choices Term Results Powerful Situation Doubt Influence Consequence Increase Arise Frustrated Powerless Decrease Powerlessness There Is Always A Way

Author:Blaine Lee Pardoe

“There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.”

Humans Made Turns Progress Special Labor Tools Machines Obstacles Contribution Categories Replaced Idle Decrease

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“If during creative processes the desire for money and fame comes before passion and joy, the chances for a big hit decrease considerably, at least in my experience.”

Ifs Bigs Joy Desire Passion Process Chance Creative Fame Creative Process Decrease Money And Fame

Author:Klaus Teuber

“Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.”

Mind Body Action Limits Increase Decrease

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme.”

People Knows Seems Age Responsibility Greater Degrees Consequence Extremes Criminals Teenager Adulthood Decrease Parental

Author:John Scott

“It is difficult for Iranian scholars and universities to retain their independence and to be seen as doing so, when cultural warfare is being carried out by some of their American partners. Indeed, such irresponsible behavior basically serves to intensify suspicion and in reality decreases the opportunity for real and meaningful dialogue.”

Real Reality Opportunity Difficult Behavior Independence University Partners Meaningful Dialogue Scholar Suspicion Warfare Irresponsible Decrease Iranian

Author:Mohammad Marandi

“The decrease in incidents of death from cancer is largely attributable to new medicines or therapeutics. Perhaps a third is attributable to changing our environment, and that includes of course smoking which I believe accounted for probably 20 percent of deaths from, certainly from lung cancer, more than that from lung cancer, but from cancer overall.”

Believe Courses I Believe Environment Percent Thirds Medicine Cancer Smoking Lungs Incidents Our Environment Decrease Lung Cancer

Author:Laurie Glimcher

“There are clearly environmental factors that can decrease the incidence and death from cancer. I would still say though that the majority of cancers cannot be prevented at this point, but they can be treated and they can be treated two major ways.”

Way Stills Two Majors Majority Environmental Cancer Treated Factors Decrease Incidence Environmental Factors

Author:Laurie Glimcher

“I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy.”

People Hard Happens Certain Winning Chance Race Accepting Crazy Hard Work Easier Happenings Accepted Things Happen Injured Decrease

Author:Usain Bolt

“By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological age, and tap into our inner reservoirs of unbounded energy, creativity, and love.”

Body Age Choices Energy Attention Creativity Focus Behavior Conscious And Love Decrease Reservoirs

Author:Deepak Chopra