Increase Quotes
1848 quotes by 1365 authors
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When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Unity increases power.
— Joyce Meyer
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Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules…
— Frank Herbert
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My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously,…
— Tom Robbins
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God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.
— Sylvia Plath
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Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.
— Daniel Pennac
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Say “no†only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay.…
— Gretchen Rubin
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I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and…
— Philip Pullman
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A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for…
— Marcus Aurelius
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We humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known, by seeking to psychologically steal it from the…
— James Redfield
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This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.
— Jerzy Kosinski
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There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom,…
— Anthony Burgess
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Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have…
— Tennessee Williams
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and…
— Emma Goldman
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It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but…
— Jostein Gaarder
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