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It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. -- Bruce Lee
Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut. -- Larry Elder
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease. -- Garrett Hardin
We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people. -- Nina Fedoroff
Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent. -- Havelock Ellis
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening. -- Leo Tolstoy
I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker. -- Joichi Ito
Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with. -- Roseanne Barr
Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers. -- Marvin Harris
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. -- Walter Benjamin
As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform. -- Deborah Bull
Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying. -- Richard Louv
He must increase, but I must decrease. -- John the Baptist
The quality of life decreases with heightened security. -- Rebecca Miller
A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched. -- Jane McGonigal
As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium. -- Lois Lowry
If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. -- Charles Dickens
Profit or perish... There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs. -- Fred DeLuca
I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease. -- David Chang
In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil. -- Paul Gillmor
Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant! -- Charles Krauthammer
People at .08 are too impaired to drive. Studies show that at .08, the ability to perform critical driving functions is decreased by as much as 60 percent. -- Frank Lautenberg
Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow. -- Hans Rosling
You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information. -- Andy Stanley
A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region. -- Greg Walden
We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate. -- Michael Enzi
Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and improve the function of all your tissues. -- Kevin R. Stone
The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. -- George Sutherland
Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases. -- Johannes Stark
Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives around the world. The impact of a day of global ceasefire and non-violence cannot be underestimated. -- Jeremy Gilley
I was heartened to hear the President say that as we make progress on the ground, and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels. -- Howard Coble
Although many seniors are happy with the generous drug coverage they have from their former employers, the number of companies offering that kind of coverage has decreased by one-third since the mid-1980s. -- Jim Gerlach
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt. -- William Shakespeare
The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East. -- Jeff Goodell
Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S -- Rosa DeLauro
Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S. -- Rosa DeLauro
The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with the amount of vocabulary and the complexity of grammatical rules which the user must keep in mind. Economy of notation is therefore important. -- Kenneth E. Iverson
When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
With the dramatic increase in ease of transportation and the incredible decrease in the amount of time required to travel between far-flung areas of the United States, representatives began spending more and more time in Washington and less and less time in their home districts. -- Ben Shapiro
If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to write. The number of people wanting to be novelists is probably not going to decline - but certainly the number of people who are going to be able to make a living as authors is going to dramatically decrease. -- Scott Turow
Returns decrease as motion increases. -- Warren Buffett
When focus increases, options decrease. -- Craig Groeschel
Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease. -- Orrin Woodward
As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease. -- Khalil Gibran
Wisdom and love never decrease by being shared. -- Debasish Mridha
Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything. -- Robert Browning
Any decrease of anxiety is a step toward love. -- Deepak Chopra
As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality. -- Joel Miller
Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases -- Diana Gabaldon
A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. -- Mark Twain
Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
If we get kids eating right, we could decrease cancer rates by 90 percent. -- Joel Fuhrman
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials. -- Bruce Lee
A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life. -- George Will
Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires. -- Plato
If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase. -- Richard Stallman
Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief. -- Abu Hanifa
The increase in accidents is disappointing. But the decrease in total fatalities is a hopeful sign. -- Mark Rosenker
During meditation, our breathing slows, our blood pressure and heart rate decrease, and stress hormone levels fall. -- Deepak Chopra
Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Cost does not equal value... and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time. -- Tom Peters
Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth? -- Simon Kuznets
Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding. -- Scott Adams
Ultimately, my proposal isn't intended to increase or decrease the amount of federal spending spent on antipoverty programs. -- Marco Rubio
So, if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere? -- John Shimkus
The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors.... -- John B. Anderson
The increased desire to please God and seek HIS approval will decrease the desire to seek approval from man. -- Yvonne Pierre
Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs. -- W. Edwards Deming
If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different. -- Robert E. Ornstein
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We now had impressive evidence that low protein intake could markedly decrease enzyme activity and prevent dangerous carcinogen binding to DNA. -- T. Colin Campbell
We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness. -- Warren Farrell
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. -- Anne Lamott
Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you. -- John C. Maxwell
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. -- Bruce Lee
According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will actually decrease. -- Richard Lindzen
No matter how great the initial chemistry is, if your values are on two different pages, the odds of your marriage working decrease significantly. -- Chana Levitan
If frequency with which you cite an education credential does not decrease over the course of your life, youâ??re not accomplishing very much. -- Ben Casnocha
Hundreds of social networks and websites such as Facebook and Twitter are trying to weaken people's morale and decrease their participation in the elections. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space. -- Natascha McElhone
You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress. -- Warren Buffett
You must decrease the amount of food you eat and increase the amount of exercise you get. That is all there is to it. -- Jane Fonda
All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things. -- Gunnar Myrdal
There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time. -- Benjamin Franklin
Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister. -- Tony Abbott
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well. -- Brian Eno
Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable. -- Roger Rosenblatt
We learn to avoid blocking others, interfering with others, because that will decrease our happiness, slow our vibratory rate and generally bring us down and make us miserable. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting us to the perfection of virtue. -- Maximus the Confessor
If during creative processes the desire for money and fame comes before passion and joy, the chances for a big hit decrease considerably, at least in my experience. -- Klaus Teuber
This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate that their babies are going to die. -- Jane Chen
In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole. -- Jacob Burckhardt
Hope shouldn't increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive. -- Yasmin Mogahed
He does not show humility who accuses himself (for who will not accept rebukes from himself?), but he who, being rebuked by another, does not decrease his love toward him. -- John Climacus
Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination -- Ahmad Thomson
Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the supply of armed law-abiding citizens who might resist them. -- John McGinnis
As the proportion of people reaching higher states of consciousness increases, this inertia will decrease, and at the same time a supportive momentum in the new direction will start building up. -- Peter Russell
Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which is more an increase than a decrease in dependence. -- Herman E. Daly
I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity. -- Christiaan Huygens
The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing. -- Herman Kahn
A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct. -- Charles Darwin
Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual decrease back to the original audio level. -- Honor Harger
Soul winning is not a method; it is a command. We are supposed to go soul winning and do soul winning if our churches grow or if our churches decrease in attendance. -- Jack Hyles
Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. -- Kool Moe Dee
If you ban them in the future, the number of these high-capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won't be any more available. -- Diana DeGette
The Central Bank should take into account other things as well: the stability of the bank system in the country, the increase or decrease of money supply in the economy, its influence on inflation. -- Vladimir Putin
Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands. -- Anthony Trollope
As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with him too. -- Steven Pinker
I think as time goes on that generation of rappers who's making it now is gonna face the same thing that my generation was facing, which is the decrease of sales. The decrease of hard-copies. -- RZA

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