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In the pursuance of ocean governance we must strive to reduce the north-south gap – Jean-Pierre Levy	added by anonymous 9 years ago
To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be. – André Breton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you dont help us, who else in the world can help us do this? – Albert Camus	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether. – Luis Buñuel	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. – Anaïs Nin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. – Archibald MacLeish	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Do not reduce me to an understanding. I am more than that. – Leslie Miklosy	added by scrutinizer00 11 years ago
Over the long term, if government revenues continue to be less than the expenditures (deficit), then the economic health of the country worsens because this will result in accumulated debt. An increasing government debt will result in higher interest payments, and less money available for socioeconomic development. To pay for the debt, the government will have to raise taxes, which will reduce the competitive position of the country in the global economy and chase investors away resulting in less economic activities and more job losses. In order to avoid higher unemployment and social instability, the government have to raise more debt to fund spending and welfare support by raising the interest rate which will increase the cost of money, reduce corporate profits and slow economic investments, thus resulting in more job losses and reduced government revenues, despite income tax increases. It is what I call a vicious economic cycle. – Med Jones	added by seattle29 13 years ago
Over the long term, if government revenues continue to be less than the expenditures (deficit). This will result in accumulated debt. An increasing government debt will result in higher interest payments, and less money available for socioeconomic development. To pay for the debt, the government will have to raise taxes, which will reduce the competitive position of the country in the global economy and chase investors away resulting in less economic activities and more job losses. In order to avoid higher unemployment and social instability, the government have to raise more debt to fund spending and welfare support by raising the interest rate which will increase the cost of money, reduce corporate profits and slow economic investments, thus resulting in more job losses and reduced government revenues, despite income tax increases. It is what I call a vicious economic cycle. – Med Jones	added by seattle29 13 years ago
Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires. – Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state. – Thomas Elliot	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples. – Kofi Annan, In his "In Larger Freedom" report to the United Nations General Assembly	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it. – Albert Camus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Banning gun shows to reduce violent crime will work about as well as banning auto shows to reduce drunken driving. – Bill McIntire	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies. – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. – Lao Tzu	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker -- as soon as you have lost all your marbles. – Brooks Hays	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. – Henry Louis Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. – Thomas Szasz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more. – Candice Bergen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state. – T.S. Elliot	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction. – Dr. Jose P. Rizal	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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