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Source: Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences

“Three scenarios for post-Kyoto emissions reductions indicate that ... the long-term consequences are small... The influence of the Protocol would, furthermore, be undetectable for many decades.”

Long Three Term Influence Consequence Decades Posts Long Term Scenarios Reduction Emissions Protocol Kyoto Kyoto Protocol

Author:Tom Wigley

“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.”

Men Kind Wisdom Today Politics Economy Conditions Easier Universal Property Credit Liberalism Owners Units Reduction Emissions Transactions Lending Absorption Small Man

Book:The Crisis Of Civilization

Source: The Crisis Of Civilization

“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.”

Kind Law Energy Policy Waste All Kinds In-laws Reduction Embedded Energy Policy

Author:Jimmy Carter

“When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.”

Helping Government Support Teacher Discipline Bureaucracy Reduction Government Bureaucracy Good Discipline

Author:Michael Gove

“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.”

“Forensics is eloquence and reduction.”

Eloquence Reduction Forensics

Book:How to Write

Source: How to Write

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

Has Beens War Fighting Lines Poor Poverty Groups Fronts Injustice Budgets Deficit Reduction Budget Deficit

Book:Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change

Source: Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change

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

Mind Pain Addiction Expansion Alcoholism Reduction

Book:Postcards From the Edge

Source: Postcards From the Edge

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

People War Interest Profit Journal Reduction Armament Vested Interests

Author:Randal Cremer

“A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the resources in a manner that creates employment and advances social welfare. I also encourage all States to contribute to the UN's annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting complete data on national defence budgets.”

“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.”

Long Two Government School Term Challenges Decision Building Taxes Long Term Two Things Holiday Infrastructure Deficit Reduction Payroll Payroll Tax

Author:Jacob Lew

“Canada, the United States and Mexico, we developed these energy reserves that we have in this North American region. And you can see a not only driving down the cost of electricity but a major manufacturing boom in this country. Couple that with tax policy, reduction, reducing the corporate tax rate, and that I think a renaissance in manufacturing like we've never seen in this country and really drive the economy.”

“Such a person needs meditation more than anyone else because they are headed for a crisis. If stress and anxiety are so great that you can't even imagine a calm clear mind, that indicates you are reaching your coping limits, and need to begin something like meditation just for the stress reduction benefits.”

Ifs Needs Mind Persons Clear Meditation Imagine Limits Anxiety Benefits Stress Crisis Calm Reaching Coping Reduction Stress And Anxiety Clear Minds Stress Reduction

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.”

Risk Strategy Farms Efficiency Improving Reduction Profitability

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.”

Important Government Opinion Issues Direct Regard Spending Campaigns Contribution Reduction Important Issues Federal Spending

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“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.”

May Asks Effort Greater Stage Development Research Expensive Construction Reduction Prototype Pertinent Stages Of Development

Author:Alan Tower Waterman

“When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!”

Whole Used Purpose Cutting Republican Taxes Increase Deficit Reconciliation Reduction Tax Cuts

Author:Kent Conrad

“Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.”

Humans Human Beings Stereotype Reduction Silhouettes

Author:Kara Walker

“I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.”

Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

“The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation.”

Nations Strength Judgment Weapons Destruction Threat Nuclear Reduction Arsenal Great Nations Removal Arms Race Power And Strength Nuclear Destruction

Author:Jimmy Carter

“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.”

People Fighting Force Wish Party Effort Failing Amount Taxes Bills Corporations Anxious Schedules Resorts Headlines Reduction Friction Splitting Tariffs

Author:William Howard Taft

“All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.”

People Objects Destruction Patterns Labels Conform Segregation Reduction Imposition

Author:Maureen Duffy

“Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.”

Ifs Problem Consciousness Program Analysis Reduction

Book:Mortal Questions

Source: Mortal Questions

“I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.”

Way Needs Government Cutting Share Approach Spending Disputes Defence Reduction Backyards Government Spending Spending Cuts

Author:Stephen Harper

“Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction to four as compared to the number then often prevailing; moreover, Mohammed specified that a man should acquire more than one wife only if he could treat them all with equal justice - obviously a difficult feat for even the most diligent man to achieve. In effect, then, the Prophet curtailed the number of wives.”

Source: Maʼmūriyyat barȧ-yi vaṭanam

“In my day a reporter who took an assignment was wholly on his own until he got back to the office, and even then he was little molested until his copy was turned in at the desk; today he tends to become only a homunculus at the end of a telephone wire, and the reduction of his observations to prose is commonly farmed out to literary castrati who never leave the office, and hence never feel the wind of the world in their faces or see anything with their own eyes.”

World Feels Littles Ends Eye Today Faces Wind Office Observation Journalism Prose Copies Desks Reporters Telephones Wire Reduction Assignments

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.”

Source: The Recovery of Confidence

“All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.”

Thinking Men Religion Religious Concepts Originals Intuition Characteristics Reduction

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Despite the long-term reduction in familial roles and functions, we believe that parents are still the world's greatest experts about the needs of their own children. Virtually any private or public program that supports parents, effectively supports children. This principle of supporting family vitality seems to us preferable to any policy that would have the state provide children directly with what it thinks they need.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness”

Mean Natural Impossible Birth Increase Rate Population Sickness Mortality Reducing Famine Reduction Demographics Insufficient Birth Rate Draconian

Author:Robert McNamara

“A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills.”

People Firsts Made Use Shows Animal Waste Environmental Productive Excess Feeding Hierarchy Stewardship Formation Reduction Contributing Recycling Landfills Methane Food Waste

Author:Carol Browner

“The more comprehensive and convincing a debt reduction program is, the less likely it is to fail. And remember, just as Germany is grateful to America for the Marshall Plan, Italy would be grateful to Germany for helping it lower its refinancing costs.”

Helping Would Be America Remember Plans Failing Cost Program Grateful Debt Germany Be Grateful Convincing Comprehensive Reduction Marshall Plan

Author:George Soros

“He [Barack Obama] talked about deficit reduction. This got me he was talking about how the deficit's being reduced faster in the last 60 years. That's because he's collected more taxes. That's like bragging that you paid your rent after you robbed a bank. It makes no sense.”

Years Lasts Talking Taxes Paid Barack Faster Deficit Reduction Bragging

Author:Barack Obama

“Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.”

Country Industry Essence Productions Bombs Gas Camps Agriculture Chamber Corpses Famine Reduction Hydrogen Extermination Food Industry Gas Chambers Hydrogen Bomb Blockades

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Before I became President, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, there had been fairly dramatic, and I think excessive, reductions in the capability of our military forces, and as a former military man myself - I was a professional naval officer, a submarine officer - I thought it was better, on a step-by-step, very carefully planned way, to increase the technical, or technological, capability of our weapons systems.”

“I think the media plays into the hands of false induction, genuine seduction taking place, wrong deductions, and the inevitable reductions. That's the way and the path of the visual.”

Thinking Way Play Hands Path Media Genuine Inevitable Visuals Seduction Reduction Deductions

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“Setting an aggressive enough carbon-reduction goal will result in an appropriate price for carbon and will help many a renewable technology. Consumer education will help. Most importantly, though, will be the continually declining cost trajectory of the real breakthrough in clean-technology costs driven by research and innovation. In the end, private capital is the real barometer of change.”

“Meditation is one of the most therapeutic things that one can do for the body and mind. Specifically, studies demonstrate a reduction in blood pressure, heart rate, and other stress marker indicators.”

Mind Heart Body Can Do Study Meditation Blood Stress Pressure Rate Mind And Body Reduction Therapeutic Indicators Markers Blood Pressure Heart Rate

Author:Tim McCarthy

“I suggest people simply start off meditation by practicing twice a day for 5 - 10 minutes, and explore what it's like to meditate. The stress reduction and mental peace starts to become a highly desirable state. After all, it's great to let go of the worries of life!”

People States Worry Meditation Minutes Letting Go Stress Desirable Reduction Mental Peace Stress Reduction

Author:Tim McCarthy

“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”

“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentiment and intellectually dishonest emotion?”

“I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.”

People Mind Humans Important Liberty Accepting Starting Justify Reduction Free Society Starting Point Right To Life

Author:John Howard

“Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by major emitters in the absence of major legislation. But it's a blunt instrument that is a little more difficult to use than a legislative remedy.”

Littles States Use Government Difficult Majors Instruments Absence Locals Remedy Legislation Federal Government Reduction Blunt State Government Co2 Outrun Epa

Author:Al Gore

“Eventually we'll use a CO2 tax offset by a reduction in taxes elsewhere alongside a cap-and-trade plan, but the degree of difficulty associated with a CO2 tax far exceeds that with a cap-and-trade plan. We're seeing it's hard to get a cap-and-trade plan and it's much easier to use as a basis for a global agreement than a CO2 tax.”

Hard Use Plans Seeing Easier Taxes Degrees Bases Difficulty Trade Agreement Elsewhere Exceed Caps Reduction Co2

Author:Al Gore

“The federal budget deficit isn't the nation's major economic problem and deficit reduction shouldn't be our major goal. Our problem is lack of good jobs and sufficient growth, and our goal must be to revive both.”

Problem Jobs Nations Goal Growth Economic Majors Budgets Sufficient Good Job Deficit Reduction Revive Economic Problems Budget Deficit

Author:Robert Reich

“The truth is that the materialistic paternalism of the present day, if allowed to go on unchecked, will rapidly make of America one huge "Main Street," where spiritual adventure will be discouraged and democracy will be regarded as consisting in the reduction of all mankind to the proportions of the narrowest and least gifted of the citizens. God grant that there may come a reaction, and that the great principles of Anglo-Saxon liberty may be rediscovered before it is too late!”

“Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.”

Ideas Matter Easy Practice Reduction

Book:Critical Path

Source: Critical Path

“The reduction in a number of pregnancies is - compensates for the cost of contraception. ... Providing contraception as a critical preventive health benefit for women and for their children reduces health care.”

Children Care Numbers Cost Benefits Critical Health Care Pregnancy Providing Reduction Contraception Health Benefits

Author:Kathleen Sebelius

“My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.”

Giving Greater Week Taste Demand Workers Patterns Length Flexible Reduction

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

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