Reduced Quotes
533 Reduced quotes by 462 unique authors
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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their…
— Plato
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The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love…
— Genghis Khan
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An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened…
— Henry Ford
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Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism'; it…
— Karl Popper
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I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.
— Marie Antoinette
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One thing is certain: When the time has come, nothing which is man-made will subsist. One day, all human accomplishments will be reduced to a…
— Alice von Hildebrand
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The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are…
— George Carlin
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On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no…
— Walter Pater
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Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life…
— William T. Vollmann
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The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they must both want…
— Errico Malatesta
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Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.
— Warren Buffett
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Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena ofĂ‚ absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or…
— Michel Houellebecq
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The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is…
— John Pawson
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What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the…
— William James
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Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
— James MacGregor Burns
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It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace,…
— Edward Gibbon
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Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions…
— Christopher Lasch
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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
— James Schuyler
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462 authors contributed a total of 533 Reduced Quotes, led by these top contributors: