Reduced Quotes
533 Reduced quotes by 462 unique authors
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In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun…
— Todd Solondz
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No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
— Dr. An Wang
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He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he…
— Joshua Reynolds
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Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and…
— Leon M. Lederman
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The output is far from smooth, and the impact on dispatchable plant required to deal with residual demand is highly significant. Our view is that…
— John Constable
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There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the…
— Alan Lightman
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[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We…
— Oliver Stone
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... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not permit a choice…
— Henri Lebesgue
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In Acts 14:1, we are told, "At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a…
— Douglas Wilson
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Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Christian hope is not a ghost and it does not deceive. It is a theological virtue and therefore, ultimately, a gift from God that cannot…
— Pope Francis
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By 2020, 50 percent of imports should be reduced, which should become 75 percent by 2025. By 2030, India should be energy independent.
— Veerappa Moily
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Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration. His administration has…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an…
— Kenny Smith
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There are two kinds of witnesses. One kind is the people that surround you. You are constantly aware that you are being watched, witnessed. With…
— Rajneesh
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All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation.
— Pat McBride
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In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
— William Godwin
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Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you…
— M H Abrams
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The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within…
— Henry David Thoreau
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