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Quotes About Decreasing

life expectancy among working-class white Americans had been decreasing since the early 2000s. In modern history the only obvious parallel was with Russia in the desperate aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union. One journalistic essay and academic research paper after another confirmed the disaster, until the narrative was capped in 2015 by Anne Case and Angus Deaton's famous account of "deaths of despair.
~ Adam Tooze
I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - would I consider that. So let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage. I did not say that and that is not something I would consider.
~ Linda McMahon
requires both the outrageousness of God and the daily work of decreasing so that Jesus and God's vision of peace may increase.
~ Walter Brueggemann
Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The population of Seoul is decreasing but a large population is not a key element of an advanced city.
~ Park Won-soon
Supporting mental wellness is crucial to any goal of decreasing gun violence in America.
~ Charles B. Rangel
Obstacles (antray) are indeed due to desires. As desires keep on decreasing, so do the obstructions (antray) keep on getting destroyed. Then, everything is acquired (at that stage).
~ Dada Bhagwan
But the strength of the minority consisted, not in the fact that the majority against them was small, but that it was decreasing. How quickly does the snowball grow into hugeness as it is rolled on, — but when the change comes in the weather how quickly does it melt, and before it is gone become a thing ugly, weak, and formless!
~ Anthony Trollope
Notice that the curve falls steeply at the beginning and then gradually levels off. This reflects what might be called the "decreasing marginal disutility of losses.
~ Barry Schwartz
The decreasing principal has decreasing power to produce interest or income.
~ Stephen R. Covey
I chased my thoughts around in decreasing circles for a while before getting back to the point—which I'd been avoiding pretty strenuously.
~ Mike Carey
I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.
~ Gary Johnson
The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
~ Swami Chinmayananda
The War on Drugs and the War on Homelessness are on a collision course that no one in the media or in public life are willing to acknowledge. Ostensibly aimed at decreasing the use of illegal drugs, the War on Drugs succeeds only in increasing homelessness.
~ Thomas Stephen Szasz
The challenge facing the synagogue is not an increase in the cost of membership. The challenge facing the synagogue is a decreasing cost benefit felt by its members.
~ Kerry M. Olitzky
Retail small traders have become more intelligent than companies on stock market because every day they see that market opens up in green but ends in red so they do not get lured of high price opening and rather they do short selling everyday to make profits. Investors numbers are decreasing fast.
~ Lakshheish M Patel
Everybody wants to help folks out. But we've got a system where you can stay on unemployment for an awfully long time. And I think we need to create a system of decreasing benefits over time to encourage you to get a job.
~ Blake Farenthold
Tiny positive or negative increments in the quality of your intent, over many thousands of choices, eventually lead to either an increasing or decreasing consciousness quality.
~ Thomas Campbell
We go on, with a motion so soporific, so dreamlike as to be uninferant of progress, as though time and not space were decreasing between us and it.
~ William Faulkner