Increasing Quotes

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The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has… — Andre Breton
Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly… — Herman E. Daly
As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude… — Norman Maclean
Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's… — Umberto Eco
We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of… — Anton Chekhov
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And… — William Shakespeare
There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of… — John Banville
If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that… — Thomas Mann
If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the… — Robert J. Sawyer
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased… — Frederick Douglass
Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is… — W G Sebald
The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the… — Steve Martin
I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that… — John Stuart Mill
Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any… — Boyd Rice
If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world. — Benjamin Carson
The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then being alone turns… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and… — Viktor E. Frankl
â€ŽUsing his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling… — David Attenborough
...hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced… — David Foster Wallace
At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her… — John Green

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