Reduced Quotes
533 quotes by 474 authors
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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
— James A. Baldwin
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Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed…
— Evan Bayh
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for…
— Bob Beauprez
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India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil.
— Hillary Clinton
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Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't…
— Maya Angelou
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During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything…
— Maya Angelou
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We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine. Science is knowledge reduced to…
— Samuel Wilks
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When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have
— Stephen Hawking
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We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.
— Peter De Vries
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The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Federal funding for cities who consider themselves sanctuary cities should be reduced.
— Mitt Romney
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The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God…
— Glenn Archer
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Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short,…
— Primo Levi
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In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend;…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
— Joseph de Maistre
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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the…
— Nick Hornby
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Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its last analysis is…
— Lucy Parsons
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a…
— Maimonides
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are…
— Roland Barthes
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Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it,…
— Louis Pasteur
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