Increase Quotes
1848 quotes by 1365 authors
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He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to…
— Henry George
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which is more an…
— Herman E. Daly
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Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best…
— Learned Hand
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The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
— Samuel Johnson
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Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.
— Walter E. Williams
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Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period…
— Charles Evans Hughes
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The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration…
— Woodrow Wilson
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We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time…
— Ronald Fisher
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I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me…
— Charles Darwin
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If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either…
— Michael Faraday
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It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence…
— Albert Einstein
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Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of…
— Charles Babbage
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Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor…
— Isidor Isaac Rabi
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While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew…
— Benjamin Rush
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During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method…
— Richard P. Feynman
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When you are forced to think, you expand your mental capacity. When you expand your mental capacity, your wealth increases.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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