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“We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.”

Mean Compassion Too Much Increase Expanding Good Words

Book:The Tragedy of American Compassion

Source: The Tragedy of American Compassion

“Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.”

Mean Desire Increase Permit

Author:Aristotle

“[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.”

Years Humans Mean Made Science Five Food Goes On Industry Circumstances Increase Twenties Faster Five Years Twenty Five Ratios Subsistence

Author:Thomas Malthus

“The only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.”

Wells Mean Products Increase Aim Well Being Quantity

Book:Planned Chaos

Source: Planned Chaos

“A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.”

Mean Quality Increase Quantity Legislation Quality Of Life Decrease

Author:George Will

“Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.”

“An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.”

Mean Values Products Increase Productivity Labour

Book:Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy

Source: Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy

“Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects. ...Landowners ought to look at both sides of the coin. Applying a tax to land values also means removing other taxes. This would so improve the efficiency of a city that land values would go up more than the increase in taxes on land.”

Looks Mean Values Sides Cities Land Effects Ought Taxes Increase Efficiency Both Sides Economist Coins Adverse Side Effects

Author:William Vickrey

“Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.”

Mean Evil Benefits Increase

Book:Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection

Source: Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection