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Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. -- Thomas Mann
Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state. -- J. Reuben Clark
The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony. -- Yehudi Menuhin
from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN.We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that. -- Jay Woodman
Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members of our society. The only moral thing to do is to repeal it. -- Walter E. Williams
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. -- Meryl Streep
Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free. -- Joseph de Maistre
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. -- James MacGregor Burns
When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have. -- Stephen Hawking
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. -- Lee Iacocca
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. -- James Schuyler
The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence. -- Stanley Crouch
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. -- Maya Angelou
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
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. -- Thomas Sowell
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
The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled. -- Ross Perot
Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole. -- Mercy Otis Warren
As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs. -- Charles Francis Richter
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking. -- J. P. Morgan
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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 be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.' -- Maya Angelou
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 strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. -- Plato
Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs. -- Kamisese Mara
There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger. -- Keith Haring
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. -- Ernest Hemingway
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 to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not. -- Maya Angelou
To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons. -- Ma Jian
Science is wisdom reduced to practice. -- Phineas Quimby
Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption. -- Julian Assange
Life if curious when reduced to its essentials -- Jean Rhys
Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility. -- Albert Einstein
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. -- William Hazlitt
God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. -- M. H. Abrams
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. -- George Carlin
Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy. -- Anurag Kashyap
A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ. -- E. Stanley Jones
It is never long before identity is reduced to loyalty. -- Leon Wieseltier
Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation. -- Pierre-Simon Laplace
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. -- Nick Hornby
My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party. -- Sting
History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities. -- Alan Greenspan
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice. -- Matthew Henry
All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness. -- A.S. Neill
Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind. -- King Hussein I
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Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced. -- Taiichi Ohno
We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated. -- Joe Manchin
Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings. -- Warren Buffett
The Spaniards have been reduced to aiming aimless balls into the box. -- Ron Atkinson
Great companies have been reduced by hiring executives that don't work out. -- Dylan Smith
We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them. -- Michael Ondaatje
Federal funding for cities who consider themselves sanctuary cities should be reduced. -- Mitt Romney
Living in truth cannot be reduced to having access to full information. -- Ivan Krastev
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. -- Don Marquis
For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials. -- Bernd Heinrich
Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice. -- Hosea Ballou
In the EU, we agree that the pressures causing migration must be reduced. -- Wolfgang Schauble
We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment. -- Henry David Thoreau
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it. -- Bela Lugosi
I think religion is best when it's reduced to a one hour television program. -- Rob Campbell
When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have -- Stephen Hawking
Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula. -- Dirk Benedict
Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy. -- Mitch McConnell
Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow. -- Albert Einstein
Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words. -- Hal Borland
Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants. -- Elmer Rice
I suppose it's everyone's fate to be reduced to quaintness by those younger than themselves. -- Margaret Atwood
People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding. -- Richard P. Feynman
Ive enjoyed programming on NPR, but were broke and therefore all spending must be reduced. -- Jaime Herrera Beutler
In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting. -- Thomas Eakins
Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours. -- Mark Victor Hansen
For most celebrities, the biggest meal of the day is toothpaste (they use reduced-fat Crest). -- Dave Barry
Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws. -- Charles Duhigg
Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend. -- Sue Grafton
We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security. -- Anna Lindh
I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level. -- Alastair Reynolds
The more the level of insecurity is reduced, the more the level of faith will grow. -- Victor Manuel Rivera
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction. -- Scott Turow
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus. -- Stephen Hawking
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction. -- Scott Turow
After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition. -- Maggie Stiefvater
The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race. -- Sally Miller Gearhart
Put a pair of high heels on a fellow and just look what he was reduced to. -- Celeste Bradley
Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears. -- SaigyÅ
The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects. -- Ben Bernanke
Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.' -- Tom Stoppard
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units. -- Claude Bernard
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Yazidis are facing the worst genocide of our times. They have been reduced from 23 million to 1 million. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage. -- Sophia Bush
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. -- Roland Barthes
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. -- Maya Angelou
The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced. -- Uday Kotak
Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant. -- Roald Amundsen
Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes. -- Ingrid Newkirk
Japan will not abandon the fight for the Philippines even if Tokyo should be reduced to ashes! -- Iwane Matsui
I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau. -- Marie Antoinette
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
One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly. -- Gerhard Schroder
Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster. -- Kohta Hirano
Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy. -- Stephen Harper
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. -- Hermann Hesse
U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products. -- John Shimkus
I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements. -- Bill Klem
Animals have been reduced to objects for production, and their lives are designed around our needs and desires. -- Liz Marshall
The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'. -- Kenneth Myers
Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher. -- Parker J. Palmer
Enough of this guilt," he told her, his voice reduced to a cracked whisper. "What's done is done. -- Alexis Steinhauer
If you look at all forms of collectivism, be it communism or fascism, people are reduced to animals. -- Jack Larson
The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny. -- Blaise Pascal
Beauty type or hair styles constantly evolve through time. Hence, a woman shouldn't be reduced to the current trends. -- Maria Borges
Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution. -- Charles Baudelaire

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