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• Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope...

  Jacques Diouf

  Progress, Driving, Hunger

  "Sub-Saharan malnutrition worse than 10 years ago" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2005.

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• Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

  Richard Wagner

  Government, Program, Increase

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• It is not wise for us to permit a few people on the Federal Reserve Board to have life and death power over our economy. My recommendation for reducing some of that power is to repeal legal tender laws and eliminate all taxes on gold, silver and platinum transactions. That way there would be money substitutes and the government money monopoly would be reduced and hence the ability to tax - some people would say steal from - us through inflation.

  Walter E. Williams

  Wise, Law, Government

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• We need to make sure that people can save all the money they spend on medical care by getting it back from their taxes, by reducing their tax burden.

  Ron Paul

  People, Needs, Care

  "The Candidates: Rep. Ron Paul". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. October 12, 2007.

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• It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant; or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's spirit.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Beautiful, Passion, Unity

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.183, Classic Books Company

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• You may know the pain of possessing and dependency, reducing persons to objects, but this is not love. Love doesn't attempt to bind, ensnare, capture. It is light, free of the burden of attachments. Love asks nothing, is fulfilled in itself. When love is there, nothing remains to be done.

  Vimala Thakar

  Pain, Love Is, Light

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• [The Republicans] offer . . . a detailed agenda for national renewal. . . . [On] reducing illegitimacy . . . the state will use . . . funds for programs to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies, to promote adoption, to establish and operate children's group homes, to establish and operate residential group homes for unwed mothers, or for any purpose the state deems appropriate. None of the taxpayer funds may be used for abortion services or abortion counseling.

  Newt Gingrich

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

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• You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing, you have rendered your country weaker against a foreign foe; suppose you have demoralized thousands of your fellow-countrymen, and have sown discontent between one class of society and another, your article is tolerably dear, I take it, after all.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Country, Class, Doing You

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk”

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• Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Heart, Trying

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.119, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the Ten Commandments, but by reducing God to some benevolent "man upstairs" whose only attributes are love and tolerance, and who could not care less about sin, they truly have transgressed God's commandment. They have created a god in their mind who does not actually exist and will on the day of judgment, not be able to offer them any help.

  Charlie Campbell

  Men, People, Tolerance

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• Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universal paean was raised in praise of growth. Growth was going to solve all problems. No need to bother about poverty. Growth will lift up the bottom and poverty will disappear without any need to pay attention to it. The economists, who should have known better, fell in with the same cry.

  Joan Robinson

  Should Have, Growth, Needs

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.9, Academic Press

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• We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.

  Nicholas Stern

  Running, Risk, Half

  "Clash: Sir Nicholas Stern". Interview with David Biello, www.scientificamerican.com. November 26, 2007.

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• I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.

  Mariano Rajoy

  Favors, Want, Expenditures

  "Will Spain Be the Next Greece?". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. October 28, 2011.

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• I believe I have demonstrated that the voters are characteristically ill-informed when voting on reducing social costs. Furthermore, their primary concern is with wealth transferred to themselves, rather than with social cost efficiency. Logically, this would mean that democratic government would be inefficient in reducing social costs.

  Gordon Tullock

  Believe, Mean, Government

  Gordon Tullock, Charles Kershaw Rowley (2005). “The economics of politics”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.

  Alfred Adler

  Mean, Water, Tears

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• More and more people are watching entertainment on their phones. On a plane or on a train, or whatever, you see people with their headphones and they're looking at their iPhone or their Galaxy. You're reducing a medium that's meant to be seen on your 65-inch plasma screen at home for your 4-inch monitor on the train. People are ready to do either, and the content has to work on both.

  Adrian Pasdar

  Home, Iphone, Phones

  Source: collider.com

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• U.S. domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about reducing substance abuse, what is it about? It is reasonably clear, both from current actions and the historical record, that substances tend to be criminalized when they are associated with the so-called dangerous classes, that the criminalization of certain substances is a technique of social control.

  Noam Chomsky

  Class, Goal, Historical

  "On the War on Drugs". Week Online interview, chomsky.info. February 8, 2002.

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• Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Gaps

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• The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Government, Keys, Progress

  Source: www.glennbeck.com

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• Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

  Eduardo Souto de Moura

  Drawing, Pieces, World

  Eduardo Souto de Moura (2005). “Eduardo Souto de Moura: 1995-2005 : la naturalidad de las cosas”

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• Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.

  James Madison

  Passion, Government, Democracies Have

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Henry Barton Dawson (1864). “The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Fœderal Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text. With an Historical Introduction and Notes”, p.60, New York : C. Scribner ; London : Sampson Low

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• The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.

  Mark Zandi

  Party, Government, Tea

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• The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern.

  Germaine Greer

  Sex, Men, Energy

  germaine greer (1971). “the female eunuch”

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• Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Progress, Taxation

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Message of the President of the United States to the Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Sixty-eighth Congress, December 3 1924”

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• Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign countries.

  Martin Heinrich

  Country, Issues, Environmental

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