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• Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.

  Godfried Danneels

  Philosophy, Rome, Catholic

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• Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.

  Martin Feldstein

  Running, Government, Growth

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• If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

  Bart Gordon

  Country, Oil, Next

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• I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.

  James Dickey

  Mean, Thinking, Honor

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• Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.

  Louise Slaughter

  Children, Pregnancy, Track

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• An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Money, Hunger And Poverty, Important

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• I'm coming to Washington D.C. to do the people's work, and the people's work has to do with - reducing spending, and -
  cutting budgets, and - and trying to get a grip on the size of government.

  Ken Buck

  Cutting, Government, People

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Goal, Progress

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• Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.

  Frederick Scott Oliver

  Mean, Men, Political

  Frederick Scott Oliver (1934). “Politics and politicians”

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• I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

  Lamar Alexander

  Country, Thinking, Goal

  "Interviews with Speaker Pelosi & Sen. Alexander". "This Week" with Jose Antonio Vargas, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 28, 2010.

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• A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.

  Ted Turner

  Nwo, Eugenics, People

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• In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Order, Eugenics, Wiping Out

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• We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Cutting, Ebola, People

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• A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.

  John Holdren

  Children, Men, Trying

  "Why Are We Still Listening to Progressives About the Environment?" By Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. September 2, 2009.

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• Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Art, Philosophy, Civilization

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richard A. Posner (1997). “The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.

  Larry King

  Order, Organization, Giving

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• Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

  Ruth Ann Minner

  Certainty Of Death, Two, Add

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• The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut.

  Dave Obey

  Cutting, Bills, Size

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• Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

  Chris Christie

  Cutting, Government, Lines

  "Gov. Chris Christie on McChrystal's Downfall, Battle With Teachers' Unions". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2010.

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• When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Live Life, Men, Mediocrity

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.

  Kofi Annan

  Commitment, Nuclear Disarmament, Political

  Kofi Atta Annan, United Nations. Dept. of Public Information (2000). “"Wir die Völker" : die Rolle der Vereinten Nationen im 21. Jahrhundert ; [ein neues Jahrhundert - neue Herausforderungen]”, p.53, United Nations Publications

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• In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

  Joe Biden

  Climbing, Ideas, Hiking

  "One-on-one with Joe Biden". Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 19, 2010.

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• Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Jobs, Opportunity, Relief

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• It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

  Henry Miller

  Unique, Egalitarianism, Vices

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

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• Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.

  Timothy Geithner

  Imbalance, Policy, Monetary

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