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Quotes About Reduction

When you're busy, you lack the time to fondle your emotional baggage. And if that sounds too reductive, remember we crawled from the swamp. Simple isn't such a terrible thing to be in this respect.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Nie ma nic dziwnego w tym, ?e obserwujemy systematyczne redukowanie czasu snu, je?li wzi?? pod uwag?, o jak? ekonomiczn? stawk? toczy si? gra.
~ Jonathan Crary
Then that makes one less thing for StarClan to worry about
~ Erin Hunter
I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.
~ Ben Quayle
After subtracting our operating expenses, we remit our profits to the Treasury, in turn reducing the federal deficit.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
I recommended that we hold off in spite of market expectations for a reduction.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
In buying Treasury securities, our ultimate goal was to precipitate a broad reduction in the cost of credit.†
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.
~ Bruce Davison
After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.
~ Leon Panetta
In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today. Increased international competition has forced American manufacturers to reduce costs. As a result, the pay premium for low-skilled workers in manufacturing is smaller than it once was.
~ Christina Romer
Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.
~ Al Gore
Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.
~ Donella Meadows
For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.
~ Daniel Kahneman
My career began somewhat accidentally. In the 1960s, I started a practice in the fledgling field of mind-body healing. Around that time, it was completely in its infancy. I had been developing a protocol to use body awareness as a tool for stress reduction.
~ Peter A. Levine
We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.
~ Grover Norquist
It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.
~ Hillary Clinton
Pornography, Lloyd points out, exposes us to idealized, highly selective images, making women needlessly self-conscious (and labia-reduction surgeons rich).
~ Mary Roach
If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
said, sounding a little nervous. "Skipping ahead to Everyday Necessities. Try your best to buy reused.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Classes and routines are first and foremost intellectual tools for reducing complexity. If they're not making your job simpler, they're not doing their jobs.
~ Steve McConnell
No fue el control de armas o un fuerte crecimiento económico o las nuevas estrategias policiales lo que finalmente atemperó la ola de crimen en Estados Unidos. Fue, entre otros factores, el hecho de que la fuente de criminales potenciales se había visto reducida de forma drástica.
~ Steven D. Levitt
name) is an important part of the process whereby the infinitely complex world of phenomena and fact is reduced to the functional world of value. And it is continual interaction with social institutions that makes this reduction—this specification—possible.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
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
Soul" is a barrier against reduction, against human life reduced to biology and genitals, culture and utility, race and ethnicity. It signals an interiority that permeates all exteriority, an invisibility that everywhere inhabits visibility. "Soul" carries with it resonances of God-created, God-sustained, and God-blessed. It is our most comprehensive term for designating the core being of men and women.
~ Eugene H. Peterson