Increase Quotes

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We must do what we can to reduce, not increase, tensions. We must do what we can to present only the facts as we know… — Percy Spender
The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world,… — Soren Kierkegaard
I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words towards any one, for neither the one nor… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so that they are… — Alva Myrdal
Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment. — Doug Larson
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him;… — Samuel Gompers
Ultimately, my proposal isn't intended to increase or decrease the amount of federal spending spent on antipoverty programs. — Marco Rubio
First of all, the Social Security money belongs to Main Street, not to Wall Street. It needs to be said very clearly here that privatization… — Dennis Kucinich
I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support,… — Benjamin Lee Whorf
If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind. — Leonardo da Vinci
It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because it means disturbance… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged torture of defenseless… — Russell Boyd
All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society. — Joseph Lancaster
The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds… — George Grenville
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every… — Albert Camus
Ask yourself every morning, â€˜how can I increase my service today?â€™ — Earl Nightingale
The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may… — Jacob Burckhardt
Money isn't always the best motivator. If you leave a $50 check after dinner with friends, you don't increase the probability of being invited back. — Yochai Benkler

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