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We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.


Bill Moyers
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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas Carlyle
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As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.
Catharine Beecher
We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
Ulrich Beck
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Wherever we are, any time of night or day, our bosses, junk-mailers, our parents can get to us. Sociologists have actually found that in recent years Americans are working fewer hours than 50 years ago, but we feel as if we're working more. We have more and more time-saving devices, but sometimes, it seems, less and less time.
Pico Iyer
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Our technologies become more complex while we become more simple. They learn about us while we come to know less and less about them. No one person can understand everything going on in an iPhone, much less pervasive systems.
Douglas Rushkoff
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I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.
Juliet Stevenson
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
Nicolas Chamfort
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The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers
We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely - or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them.
Peter Singer
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Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.
Pico Iyer
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As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.
Dylan Thomas
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The reason people talk about cable cutting is they imagine the price burden will get so high that people won't be able to pay it. They're missing something: that the actual price of the electronic package is going down. They've got their Internet, phone, TV, all of it. Now people are using more and more stuff for less.
Jeffrey Bewkes
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The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.


Tom Jenkinson
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Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.
Gary Paulsen
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.


Calvin Coolidge
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The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.


John Grierson
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The world, whether we like it or not, will become more and more borderless.


John Key
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I didn't think it was my dream to be on Broadway; it just sort of became that, and then it just became me wanting it more and more and more.
Jennifer Damiano
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I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more.


Ron Wood
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