Quotes with increase

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  • Barack Obama I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
    As quoted in "Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise", Tavis Smiley, Simon and Schuster, 2009, p. 198
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Charles Dickens I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Arthur Laffer I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Michael Harrington If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.
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  • Bee Wilson In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Blake Farenthold In cutting government, we cut a huge variety of programs, a lot of which I would have liked to see increase, and a lot of which I'd like to see decreased more.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Thomas Malthus In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.
    Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, IV
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Anne Brontë Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XLV
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Alva Myrdal It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a 'remedy', more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Ovid It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Adam Smith It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Thomas Carlyle It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bruce Lee It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Bob Beauprez Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Vaclav Havel Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Samuel Johnson Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Horace Labor diligently to increase your property.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Woodrow Wilson Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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