Increase Quotes
1848 quotes by 1365 authors
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If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music and arts programs. They increase the ability of young people to do math. They increase…
— William J. Clinton
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If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I…
— Tony Dungy
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Selfless giving is a guaranteed way to increase feelings of love.
— Jude Bijou
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This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon…
— John F. Kennedy
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If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him…
— William Penn
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It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a…
— Ovid
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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
— Ovid
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Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.
— Plutarch
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Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian…
— Clara Zetkin
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Increase in prayer, increase in prayer, increase in prayer until Jesus comes.
— Karen Wheaton
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The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.
— Laozi
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There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and…
— Havelock Ellis
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If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.
— Thomas Browne
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Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt.
— Robert H. Schuller
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
— Andre Gide
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As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It…
— Alexis Carrel
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We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In…
— John Steinbeck
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