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• Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

  Barack Obama

  Horse, Bayonets, Aircraft Carriers

  Third presidential debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney in Boca Raton, Fla., www.npr.org. October 22, 2012.

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• Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mean, Simple, Simplicity

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide them; if equal, engage them; if fewer, defend against them; if weaker, be able to avoid them.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Army

  "The Art of War". Book by Sun Tzu, Chapter III · Strategic Attack, 6th Century BC.

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• Hitting the ball is the fun part of it, but the fewer times you hit the ball the more fun you have.

  Lou Graham

  Fun, Golf, Balls

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• From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our people too hard. I don't give a good Goddamn about such complaints. I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood. The harder we push, the more Germans we will kill. The more Germans we kill, the fewer of our men will be killed. Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that.

  George S. Patton

  Believe, Mean, Army

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, President, Painting

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• It's better to have fewer things of quality than too much expendable junk.

  Rachel Zoe

  Fashion, Quality, Junk

  Rachel Zoe, Rose Apodaca (2008). “Style A to Zoe: The Art of Fashion, Beauty, & Everything Glamour”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• In a comprehensive study of all public multiple shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that the only public policy that reduced both the incidence and casualties of such shootings were concealed-carry laws. Not only are there 60 percent fewer gun massacres after states adopt concealed-carry laws, but the death and injury rate of such rampages are reduced by 80 percent.

  Ann Coulter

  Gun, Law, America

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• Investing intelligently in those of us who are marginalised means fewer people in jail, fewer homeless, fewer unemployed, fewer of us who are forlorn and depressed, fewer people addicted to things that drag us down... Because as we invest in those that do it tough, we will see more Australians taking pride in themselves, having realisable dreams and aspirations and making their own positive contribution to the world's greatest nation.

  Simon McKeon

  Leadership, Dream, Business

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• Probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off the lights or driving a Prius, it's having fewer kids...we'll soon see a market in baby-avoidance carbon credits similar to efforts to sell CO2 credits for avoiding deforestation.

  Andrew Revkin

  Baby, Kids, Carbon Footprint

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• Ultimately, you must forget about technique. The further you progress, the fewer teachings there are. The Great Path is really NO PATH.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Teaching, Warrior, Progress

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.170, Shambhala Publications

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• There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Four, Revision

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• We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You've got to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something so they can think about it in lots of different ways and apply it.

  Howard Gardner

  Teaching, Learning, School

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• Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children

  Christopher Wills

  Girl, Children, Men

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• [The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and, of course, bear exclusively the burden of supporting the government; and the other, of those who are the recipients of their proceeds through disbursements,and who are, in fact, supported by the government; or, in fewer words, to divide it into tax-payers and tax-consumers. But the effect of this is to place them in antagonistic relations in reference to the fiscal action of the government and the entire course of policy therewith connected.

  John C. Calhoun

  Philosophy, Reality, Class

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• The crying need today is not for more laws, but for fewer. The world must be saved from its saviors. If the friends of liberty and law could have only one slogan it should be: Stop the remedies!

  Henry Hazlitt

  Law, Liberty, Needs

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.216, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must do everything badly.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Trying, Can Do

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.183, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The median GPA and LSAT percentile for students of the country's elite law schools were 3.8 and 98 respectively. At the time fewer than 20 black law students in the entire country met those standards.

  Lino Graglia

  Country, School, Gpa

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• Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Children, Winter

  Bertrand Russell (1943). “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity”

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• We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.

  Jim Cooper

  Years, Voting, Body

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• Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

  Dennis Gabor

  Appreciate, Magic, Kind

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• There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.

  William J. Clinton

  Drinking, Moving, Science

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• As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

  Etty Hillesum

  Gratitude, Unexpected Gifts, Expectations

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.466, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.

  Gordon Allport

  Commitment, Science, Maturity

  Gordon W. Allport (1964). “Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality”

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• Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. Sport is when individuals or teams compete against each other under equal circumstances to determine who is better at a given game or endeavor. Hunting will be a sport when deer, elk, bears, and ducks are... given 12-gauge shotguns. Bet we'd see a lot fewer drunk yahoos (live ones, anyway) in the woods if that happened.

  Richard Lerner

  Sports, Spiritual, Team

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