“ Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. ”
- Samuel Adams- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The workers asked only for bread and a shortening of the long hours of toil. The agitators gave them visions. The police gave them clubs. ”
- Mother Jones- Copy
- 2.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 2K
“ To be truly selfish one needs a degree of self-esteem. The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unattainable, envy takes the place of greed. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 429
“ Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it, no small deduction from the life of man. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 275
“ Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man. ”
- Robert Burton- Copy
- 2K
“ Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
- 664
“ The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. ”
- Humphry Davy- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 3.6K
“ We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one. ”
- Herbert Spencer- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction. ”
- Placido Domingo- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The best reduction, the most final reduction, is to destroy the warheads. ”
- Jack Reed- Copy
- 1.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 270
“ A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry, documented deductions of the brain. ”
- Llewelyn Powers- Copy
- 3.9K
“ We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
- 790
“ It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste. ”
- Friedrich Engels- Copy
- 891
“ The majority of the benefit from the present treatment of mortgage-interest deduction goes to the very high income. ”
- Connie Mack- Copy
- 380
“ It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Today, less than 30 percent of American taxpayers take advantage of the mortgage interest deduction. Under our proposal, everyone who has a mortgage will get a benefit. ”
- Connie Mack- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history. ”
- Jack Kemp- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. ”
- Rene Descartes- Copy
- 3.3K
“ 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- Copy
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