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“Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that it's all or nothing. We have to be pragmatic. Screw the principle.”

Suffering Animal Principles Position Witness Screws Reducing Pragmatic

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“I'm coming to Washington D.C. to do the people's work, and the people's work has to do with - reducing spending, and - cutting budgets, and - and trying to get a grip on the size of government.”

People Trying Government Cutting Size Spending Budgets Reducing Size Of Government

Author:Ken Buck

“In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.”

World Order Climate Change Population Global Warming Agendas Elites Reducing New World Order Eugenics World Order Population Control World Population Depopulation Agenda 21 Wiping Out

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when it comes to immigration, the single biggest contributor to population growth in the industrial world, they stand largely silent.”

World Has Beens Growth Support Rights Keys Silent Size Population Immigration Abortion Global Warming Reducing Environmentalist Outspoken Contributors Population Growth Abortion Rights

Author:Gary Bauer

“When overpowering authority or leadership intervenes in a team, it can affect the team by (1) throwing the team off track, (2) decreasing the motivation of the team, (3) reducing the commitment of the team members, and (4) causing more problems than solutions.”

Problem Motivation Team Members Authority Solutions Commitment Track Teamwork Throwing Reducing Overpowering Team Member

Author:J. Richard Hackman

“The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.”

Sometimes Philosophy Desire Water Youth Listening Democratic Drinking Spending Neglect One Time Plato Reducing Flutes Long Day Youth Life Downing

Author:Plato

“"Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum... In a world of hyperabundant content, point of view will become the scarcest of resources...”

World Humans Age Process Views Information Essentials Solutions Resources Point Of View Relevant Minimum Intuitive Reducing Hyper Manageable Overload Information Overload

Author:Paul Saffo

“Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children.”

Children Cutting Car Population Meat Consumption Imperatives Reducing Pointless

Author:Madeleine Bunting

“Climate change is a crucial issue in todays global agenda. Hopefully, we will wake up to this reality, sooner rather than later. Pressure has been mounting on European Union Member States to act decisively to fight global warming. A bold target has been set reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 20 by 2020.”

“Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.”

Men Mean Ends Political Politics Aim Obvious Opponents Engaged Opposition Minimum Reducing Public Life

Book:Politics and politicians

Source: Politics and politicians

“It's not a question of arriving and putting in a whole new administration, but instead, arriving and "compacting" things as much as possible, reducing management layers. We want as few management layers as possible, so that executives are very close to the operations. We also don't believe in having big corporate infrastructures.”

Want Believe Whole Bigs Company Management Don't Believe Administration Corporate Operations Executives Layers Infrastructure Reducing Arriving

Author:Carlos Slim

“Chile needs to unite behind the goals of reducing poverty and creating more equal opportunities so that everyone can benefit from what the country has to offer.”

Needs Country Opportunity Goal Behinds Poverty Offers Equal Benefits Creating Reducing Equal Opportunity Chile Reducing Poverty

Author:Michelle Bachelet

“You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you're discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.”

People Doe Ideas Helping Levels Humour Serious Relaxation Reducing Discussing Serious Things

Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.”

Men Trying Children Might Greater Easier Program Thirds Difficulty Population Despite Operations Elites Reducing Population Control Depopulation Vasectomy

Author:John Holdren

“The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births.”

Long Might Term Numbers Possibility Development Birth Skins Population Long Term Officials Pregnancy Elites Permission Reducing Puberty Fertility Population Control Depopulation

Author:John Holdren

“I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.”

Thinking Should Country Care Goal Steps Cases Cost Health Care Reducing Health Care Costs

Author:Lamar Alexander

“Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.”

Humans Care Opportunity Strong Quality Democracy Economic Achievement Highest Discovery Health Care Broads Reducing Public Education Quality Health Care

Author:Bill Gates

“Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.”

Way Humans May Ideas Facts Term Memories Loss Known Principles Rate Reducing

Book:In Search of Pedagogy Volume I: The Selected Works of Jerome Bruner, 1957-1978

Source: In Search of Pedagogy Volume I: The Selected Works of Jerome Bruner, 1957-1978

“By reducing our dependence of foreign oil and increasing alternative energy sources such as ethanol, we can begin to bring down prices at the pumps, create thousands of new jobs and bring a much needed boost to our economy.”

Jobs Energy Economy Source Needed Oil Alternatives Dependence Reducing Boost Pumps New Job Energy Sources Alternative Energy Foreign Oil Ethanol

Author:Jim Ryun

“The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. it is the result of the omission of the inessentials.”

Has Beens Results Quality Achieve Objects Essentials Perfection Simplicity Details Defined Minimum Improving Components Reducing Minimalism Omission Subtraction Junction Artefacts

Author:John Pawson

“From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.”

States Government Numbers Cutting Car Contracts Efficient Smarter Reducing State Government

Author:Jim Doyle

“Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.”

May Impossible Economic Empathy Gaps Reducing

Author:Daniel Goleman

“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.”

People Looks May Persons Becoming Capable Capacity Core Dependent Human Condition Existential Reducing Possessing Paradoxical Capacity To Love

Author:Rajneesh

“But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nations economic viability.”

“Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.”

People Culture Understanding Setting Settings Reducing Banality

Author:Clifford Geertz

“I am convinced that most companies don't maximize their barter possibilities. Instead of aggressively reducing costs by trading their services with those of their suppliers, they seem content to pay top dollar for everything.”

Seems Business Pay Company Possibility Cost Dollars Convinced Trading Reducing Suppliers

Book:What They Still Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School

Source: What They Still Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School

“High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company but the entire economy... LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power to do many things. It has no margin for error and less margin for additional risk.”

Loses Company Economy Risk Management Safety Errors Reducing Margins Risk Management Unsafe

Author:Franco Modigliani

“The securitisation of mortgages added a new dimension of systemic risk. Financial engineers claimed they were reducing risks through geographic diversification: in fact they were increasing them by creating an agency problem. The agents were more interested in maximising fee income than in protecting the interests of bondholders. That is the verity that was ignored by regulators and market participants alike.”

Facts Problem Interest Risk Creating Financial Income Agents Agency Dimensions Engineers Ignored Reducing Mortgage Participants Fees Diversification Regulators Financial Risk

Author:George Soros

“I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.”

Thinking Government Force Roles Internet Majors Reducing Role Of Government

Author:Milton Friedman

“Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.”

Growth Economic Produce Taxes Burden Economic Growth Reducing Tax Burden

Author:Bob Schaffer

“Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated, we're not going to be the most powerful for very long.”

Ifs Long Important America Energy Powerful Economic Excellence Educated Most Powerful Dependence Reducing

Author:Kent Conrad

“But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government”

Government Size Federal Government Scope Reducing

Author:James Q. Wilson

“Is the American tradition of self-reliance disappearing? That's a painful question for conservatives to ponder. After all, we're dedicated to reducing the role of government and promoting individual freedom and opportunity. But the facts, while sad, are clear: More Americans today depend more heavily on government than ever before.”

“As governor, Im spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.”

Government School Jobs Three Creating Areas Focused Spending My Time Expenses Governors Reducing Creating Jobs

Author:Jack Markell

“Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.”

Children Levels Teach Proud Republican Labor Humble Handle Estates Nobility Reducing Traitor Workshops Teaching Children Plowing

Book:The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868

Source: The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868

“Uncertainty hurts business. It annoys individuals. Why keep the whole country, including business and individuals, in uncertainty over the extent of the tax burdens to be placed upon us? How many of those who voted for Calvin Coolidge imagined for a moment that would do nothing to bring about tax relief before 1926?.... But if the Administration persists in opposing a special session then it will inevitably be 1926 before action is taken.... Coolidge and Congress should ease our minds and grease our activities by reforming and reducing taxation as soon as feasible after March 4.”

“The urgency for reducing climate emissions is too great. We must take our collective experience and use it toward making green design a part of all design.”

Use Design Green Climate Collectives Reducing Urgency Emissions

Author:Ian Shapiro

“In general, presidents and congressmen have very limited power to do good for the economy and awesome power to do bad. The best good thing that politicians can do for the economy is to stop doing bad. In part, this can be achieved through reducing taxes and economic regulation, and staying out of our lives.”

President Can Do Economy Our Lives Economic Politician Taxes Good Things Staying Regulation Reducing Congressman

Author:Walter E. Williams

“We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vision. What if humans designed products and systems that celebrate an abundance of human creativity, culture, and productivity? That are so intelligent and safe, our species leaves an ecological footprint to delight in, not lament?”

“Reducing health costs and increasing access to health care are worthy goals that every Member of Congress should support.”

Should Care Goal Support Cost Members Congress Worthy Access Health Care Reducing

Author:Jim McCrery

“And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes.”

Values Lines Waste Reducing Manufacturing Lean Manufacturing

Author:Taiichi Ohno

“Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.”

Way Issues Argument Very Good Reducing Good Way Stale Clarifying

Author:Evan Davis

“Despite what many nutritionists have preached for years, rapid weight-loss diets can be healthy if done correctly and can work wonders on reducing pounds and inches in just days.”

Ifs Years Done Loss Wonder Healthy Weight Despite Diets Pounds Inches Rapids Weight Loss Reducing Nutritionist

Book:The 17 Day Diet Breakthrough Edition

Source: The 17 Day Diet Breakthrough Edition

“Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective, even for very serious levels of depression. Physical exercise and self-help books based on CBT can also be useful, either alone or in combination with therapy. Reducing social and economic inequality would also reduce the incidence of depression.”

“We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.”

People Needs Growth Support Planets Rate Population Elites Reducing Decrease Population Growth Population Control Population Explosion

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.”

Way Should Book War Effort Attention Possibility Consequence Direct Method Despite 1960s Reducing Coping Nuclear War Likelihood

Book:The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking

Source: The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking

“To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of autonomy. The failure to see the non-human domain in the richer terms appropriate to ethics licences supposedly ‘purely instrumental’ relationships that distort our perceptions and enframings, impoverish our relations and make us insensitive to dependencies and interconnections”

Source: Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason

“These early decisions can foreclose many opportunities to reshape the patterns of development in a community so as to make it better and safer by reducing vulnerability to future disasters.”

Opportunity Community Decision Development Patterns Disaster Planning Vulnerability Reducing

Author:Jim Schwab

“A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death”

Play Causes Roles Rich Risk Majors Fruit Illness Diets Vegetarian Vegetables Reducing Fruits And Vegetables Illness And Death

Author:Walter Willett

“There's a lot of evidence that fruits and vegetables are beneficial for reducing the risk of stroke.”

Risk Evidence Fruit Vegetarian Vegetables Strokes Beneficial Reducing Fruits And Vegetables

Author:Walter Willett

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