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• Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and stays away.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Heart, Get Better, Myopia

  "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1950.

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• The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation of writing skills and reading comprehension; an alarming increase of packaged language (cliches used in speeches, canned messages); and a general tendency to substitute visual media (especially television and video) for written language.

  Mihai Nadin

  Reading, Writing, Media

  Mihai Nadin (1997). “The Civilization of Illiteracy”, p.17, Dresden University Press

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• Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it’s a good investment. Investors then just hope that those cash flows - and thus the company’s value - don’t decrease faster than they anticipate.

  Peter Thiel

  Cash Flow, Years, Looks

  "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 3 Notes Essay". blakemasters.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Distance, Silence

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• You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Your Time, Causes, Common

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• Detached forgiveness—there is a reduction in negative feelings toward the offender, but no reconciliation takes place. Limited forgiveness—there is a reduction in negative feelings toward the offender, and the relationship is partially restored, though there is a decrease in the emotional intensity of the relationship. Full forgiveness—there is a total cessation of negative feelings toward the offender, and the relationship is fully restored.

  R. T. Kendall

  Emotional, Feelings, Negative

  R.T. Kendall (2010). “Total Forgiveness: When Everything in You Wants to Hold a Grudge, Point a Finger, and Remember the Pain—God Wants You to Lay it All Aside”, p.10, Charisma Media

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• Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination

  Ahmad Thomson

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.

  Michael Owen

  Football, Years, Games

  "Owen relies on honest approach to mean streets" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2006.

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• I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation and probably, economic collapse. The silver lining is, secession will probably become more feasible.

  Charley Reese

  War, Race, Liberty

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• Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and improve the function of all your tissues.

  Kevin R. Stone

  Drinking, Water, Tissues

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• Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!

  Charles Krauthammer

  Doctors, Numbers, Way

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• I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.

  Seth Godin

  Communication, Writing, Ideas

  "Interview: Seth Godin On How Often To Post To Your Blog". Interview with B.L. Ochman, January 12, 2009.

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• The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.

  James Altucher

  Wise, Men, Aim

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• Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.

  Benjamin Carson

  Mean, Exercise, Opportunity

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• Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

  Andre Gide

  Responsibility, Power, Men

  "Voodoo Science". Book by Robert L.Park, p. 31,

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• Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Real, Race, Prejudice

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• All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Character, Order, Consistency

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• Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ratios, Increase

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• It is never a good practice to continue to sleep after sunrise. We should not think of staying in bed once we are awake; it increases laziness and dullness. Those who cannot decrease the amount of sleep quickly may do it in gradual stages. Those who do regular spiritual practice do not need much sleep.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Sleep, Thinking

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• 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.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• 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.

  Calvin Jillson

  Education, Health, Texas

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• Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet we do not see nor feel this weakness ourselves, except in times of need and temptation, when unbelief rages too strongly; and yet for that very reason faith must have temptations in which it may battle and grow.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Temptation, Battle

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• Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Uncles, Population, Scrooge

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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• 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.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Country, Extravagance, Substance

  Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1870). “Political Economy for Beginners”, p.28, London ; Cambridge : Macmillan

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• Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Dream, Art, Thinking

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