Reduces Quotes

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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life… — Ronald Reagan
What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time… — Philip Zimbardo
Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in… — Douglas Rushkoff
Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths… — Virginia Woolf
Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes… — Michelangelo
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in… — Henry David Thoreau
Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary. — Paul Bowles
Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish,… — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like… — Margaret Atwood
The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems… — Guy Debord
Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing… — John Green
You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp. — Georges Bataille
The only way to maximize group creativityâ€”to make the whole more than the sum of its partsâ€”is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In… — Jonah Lehrer
The gospel is like a caged lion,' said the great baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. 'It does not need to be defended, it simply needs to… — Nancy Pearcey
You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something… — P.G. Wodehouse
Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken in sufficient quantity,… — Julian Barnes
Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved. — Hjalmar SÃ¶derberg
When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by… — Sheryl Sandberg
Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability. — Charles W. Pickering
Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. — Robert Breault

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