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• I get in fewer arguments when I'm alone.

  Paula Poundstone

  Argument

  FaceBook post by PAULA POUNDSTONE from Aug 11, 2013

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• ... in all cases of monstrosity at birth anaesthetics should be applied by doctors publicly appointed for that purpose... Every successive year would see fewer of the unfit born, and finally none. But, it may be urged, this is legalized infanticide. Assuredly it is; and it is urgently needed.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Doctors, Years, Purpose

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• What women look for in a man: Breathing, IQ over 80, weight under 550 pounds, fewer than six ex-wives. What men look for in a woman: Pia Zadora as she was ten years ago.

  Cathy Crimmins

  Women, Years, Breathing

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• It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

  Agatha Christie

  Love You, People, Suffering

  Agatha Christie (1952). “A Daughter's a Daughter”

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• What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except the few burnt lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lakes, Land, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.80

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• We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.

  Frank Pierson

  Philosophy, Needs, Philosopher

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• Fewer and fewer people are paying larger and larger percentage of the tax burden, as you know, almost half the people pay no income taxes at all. We're going to have more people in the wagon than we got pulling the wagon before long and that's not going to work. Those jobless numbers, you know, go hand-in-hand with those tax numbers.

  Fred Thompson

  Numbers, Hands, Long

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Every discussion in a meeting has a diminishing curve of interest. The longer the discussion goes on, the fewer people will be interested in it.

  Mark McCormack

  Curves, People, Goes On

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• We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time.

  David M. Raup

  Example, Transition, Fossils

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• If you create an environment where the people truly participate, you don't need control. They know what needs to be done and they do it. And the more that people will devote themselves to your cause on a voluntary basis, a willing basis, the fewer hierarchies and control mechanisms you need.

  Herb Kelleher

  Leadership, People, Needs

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• It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand why it is so rare. There are few, indeed, who wish to penetrate into other spheres, higher or lower, in ways allowed or forbidden. Men, in the mass, are amply content with life as they find it. Therefore there are few saints, and sinners (in the proper sense) are fewer still.

  Arthur Machen

  Men, Wish, Saint

  Arthur Machen (2003). “The White People and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen”, Chaosium Fiction Series

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• If men were in charge of carrying and birthing our babies, we'd have a lot fewer people on Earth, because we'd only do it once- I can promise you that!

  Phil Robertson

  Baby, Men, People

  Phil Robertson, Mark Schlabach (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

  Jacob Zuma

  Rights, Democracy, Minorities

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• When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived

  Arthur Koestler

  Country, Feet, Atmosphere

  Arthur Koestler (1973). “The lion and the ostrich: the eighth annual lecture under the "Thank-offering to Britain Fund."”, Not Avail

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• Today, few Americans are aware of the spiritual epidemic that wiped out the land of our Christian forefathers. Even fewer are aware that the same epidemic has reached our own shores, spreading like a virus.

  Ken Ham

  Christian, Spiritual, Epidemics

  Britt Beemer, Ken Ham, Jeff Kinley (2015). “Ready to Return: Bringing Back the Church's Lost Generation”, p.19, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.

  David Karp

  Focus, Entrepreneur, Cost

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• If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his or her own repertory of gestures. Arithmetically, it is simply impossible. Without the slightest doubt, there are far fewer gestures in the world than there are individuals. That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion: a gesture is more individual than an individual. We could put it in the form of an aphorism: many people, few gestures.

  Milan Kundera

  People, Doubt, World

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• If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Night, Soul

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• The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.

  Hugh MacDiarmid

  Writing, Numbers, People

  1928 Review of D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in The New Age, 27 Sep. This may very well have been the first published review of Lawrence's novel.

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• Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.

  David Hackett Fischer

  Memories, Grief, Past

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• The man who occupies the first place in an undemocratic state can give himself any award that takes his fancy, but it does not increase his authority - rather, the contrary. This was something Brezhnev and Chernenko did not understand. In all, Stalin had about as many decorations as, say, Mekhlis, and four or five times fewer than Brezhnev

  Dmitri Volkogonov

  Men, Awards, Giving

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• We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Imagine, Knows, Fewer Friends

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• The message to organizations is this: You have to increase the number of categories of contributing, or the types of career paths, which people can experience as successful. You cannot restrict esteem to the fewer and fewer who will be climbing up the management ladder. You need to have the majority of your people feeling like winners.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Successful, Climbing, Careers

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• Principles are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions. Every game has principles that successful players master to achieve winning results. So does life. Principles are ways of successfully dealing with the laws of nature or the laws of life. Those who understand more of them and understand them well know how to interact with the world more effectively than those who know fewer of them or know them less well.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Successful, Player

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• I don't think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good treatment. Having more knowledge, better diagnostic capabilities, better medications with fewer side effects, can't make up for the fact that most patients are being treated by doctors, therapists, and hospitals, who are operating under constraints and incentives that reward non-treatment, non-hospitalization, non-therapy, non-follow-up, non-care. Lost to follow-up is the best outcome a health insurer can hope for.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Running, Sleep, Thinking

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