Increase Quotes

• It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Letting Go, Crazy

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• To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Choices, Sailing, Desire

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.28, Wildside Press LLC

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• If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Failure

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• Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Light, Giving

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Desire, Permit

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• Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

  Roseanne Barr

  Believe, Space, Trying

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• In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

  Newt Gingrich

  Jobs, Justified, Killing

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• But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

  Daniel Goleman

  Years, Notable, Interest

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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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• I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Thinking, Literature, Vibrations

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• Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.

  William C. Bryant

  Roots, Fruit, Innocence

  William Cullen Bryant, “Mutation”

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• An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, Children, Opportunity

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• Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

  William Wycherley

  Love, Marriage, Gambling

  William Wycherley, Marvin T. Herrick (1970). “The Country Wife”, p.47, Barron's Educational Series

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• I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

  William Howard Taft

  Presidential, Towns, Tourists

  Letter of Archibald Butt to Clara F. Butt on June 01, 1909. "Taft and Roosevelt: The intimate letters of Archie Butt" by Archibald Willingham Butt, 1930.

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• Stable energy prices and enhanced national security will only come when we increase domestic energy resources, which was accomplished today with the opening of ANWR.

  Kenny Marchant

  Energy, Anwr, Today

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• Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Balloons, Profile

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• Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

  Jack Valenti

  Chinese, Cinema, Demand

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• I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.

  Peter Garrett

  Believe, Talking, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Blessing, Moral, Good Moral

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.151

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• It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Aggravation, Cost, Degradation

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• Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

  Charles Babbage

  Light, Order, Velocity

  Charles Babbage (1832). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures ... Second edition enlarged”, p.31

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• Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.

  Gaston Caperton

  Strong, Commitment, Florida

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• The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

  Ed Markey

  Leadership, Years, President

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. May 4, 2005.

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• We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.

  Bobby Jindal

  Oil, Energy, Needs

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• We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.

  Catherine McAuley

  Numbers, Desire, Foundation

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