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In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

Paul Gillmor

Aunt, Oil, Middle East

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People at .08 are too impaired to drive. Studies show that at .08, the ability to perform critical driving functions is decreased by as much as 60 percent.

Frank Lautenberg

People, Driving, Study

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

Garrett Hardin

Mean, Environmental, World

Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

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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.

Marvin Harris

World Religions, Principles, Followers

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Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

Havelock Ellis

Population, Tasks, Speeding

Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.126, Elsevier

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Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

Larry Elder

Cutting, Doe, Increase

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A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

Greg Walden

Jobs, Loss, Average

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Focus on all four of your net worth factors: increasing your income, increasing your savings, increasing your investment returns, and decreasing your cost of living by simplifying your lifestyle.

T. Harv Eker

Motivational, Money, Cost Of Living

FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 29, 2015

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Never does any pride enter the heart of a man except that his intelligence decreases by the same amount.

Muhammad al-Baqir

Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

Charles Dickens

Population, Scrooge, Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.9

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Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

Haruki Murakami

Life, Time, Regret

FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 05, 2011

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

Memorable, Great Love, Heaven

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes”, p.30

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A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

Mark Twain

Baby, Angel, Wings

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You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate.... The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop or really even decrease deforestation.

Patrick Symmes

Real, Failure, Science

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

Plato

Desire, Poverty, Wealth

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Furthermore, a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development.

T. Colin Campbell

Animal, Development, Patterns

T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.66, BenBella Books

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Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being. This is not the silence of a stone, but creative silence. We have to find it for ourselves. We decrease activity until silence becomes creative, and we sit in creative silence and close the gates of perception for insight into the content of life.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Creative, Meditation, Silence

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I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in future wars, and that in consequence not only will the importance of the Independent Air Force rapidly increase, but the importance of the army and navy will decrease in proportion.

Giulio Douhet

War, Independent, Army

General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.139, Pickle Partners Publishing

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Kindness, love, patience, understanding, and unity will increase as we serve, while intolerance, jealousy, envy, greed, and selfishness decrease or disappear. The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.

Carlos H. Amado

Kindness, Giving, Envy

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I kind of hate to be the voice of doom, but I just can't see how prices can't go down. I think people have actually forgotten that property prices can decrease. There's this feeling that they just won't fall, but, of course, that's not true.

Sarah Beeny

Hate, Fall, Thinking

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As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.

Spencer Bachus

Jobs, Texas, Cities

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There are some fires you can't get out of- you've got to go through the fire - you've got to go through the flood - you've got to go through the test - you've got to go through the struggle that you might decrease and he might increase.

T. D. Jakes

Struggle, Fire, Might

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When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.

Rollo May

Flare Up, Mad, Feelings

"Love and Will". Book by Rollo May, Ch. 1: Introduction: Our Schizoid World, p. 31, 1969.

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If the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world's problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would decrease by 25 percent, deforestation would cease, rainforests would be preserved, our water- and air-quality would increase, life-expectancy rates would increase, and our rates of cancer would plummet, so certainly, with that one action of becoming vegan you are quite effectively making the world a better place.

Moby

Cancer, Air, Water

Interview with Lisa Mickleborough, www.vegnews.com. December 1, 2008.

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Don’t ever average losers. Decrease your trading volume when you are trading poorly; increase your volume when you are trading well. Never trade in situations where you don’t have control. For example, I don’t risk significant amounts of money in front of key reports, since that is gambling, not trading.

Paul Tudor Jones

Gambling, Keys, Average

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