Quotes of Diminution - somelinesforyou

“ Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end,... Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend. ”

- Jean Chretien

“ For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative? ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ We regret having to make these painful workforce reductions, but believe they are necessary for us to remain a strong, vibrant organization. ”

- Michael Friedman

“ Daley may be sinking. The hot water has gone from his chest to his neck. ”

- Don Rose

“ The greatest surprise in poverty reduction... is China. ”

- Bill Gates

“ The best reduction, the most final reduction, is to destroy the warheads. ”

- Jack Reed

“ Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. ”

- Donella Meadows

“ I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction. ”

- Placido Domingo

“ I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery. ”

- Paul Ehrlich

“ Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves; to like themselves. ”

- Bonaro Overstreet

“ Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. ”

- Albert Camus

“ Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect. ”

- William Watson

“ The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality. ”

- Carl Jung

“ If language is as inextricably tied up with consciousness as it seems to be, then the continuing diminishment of our inclination to use it to express in letters the times in which we live could mean that an element of human consciousness itself is on the verge of disappearing. ”

- Unknown

“ The report next week to the board will be on the overall emissions and potential cures, or at least mitigation measures, surrounding pollution from the ports. Trucks are one of the biggest elements that, quite frankly, we can control. ”

- Jerry Martin
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