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Letter "R" » reducing
«I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more»
«Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.»
Author: Kofi Annan
| About:
Equality
| Keywords:
equality, gender, genders, governance, precondition, promoting, reducing, sustainable, The Challenge
«In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
amounts, conformable, instances, interpretation, interpreting, manageable, nervous, Philistine, reducing, refusal, tames
«Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.»
«We are engaged mainly in a struggle for the soul of this new century. Victory for our vision depends upon winning the fight we're in against terrorism, on spreading the benefits, and reducing the burdens of the modern world, on changes in poor nations themselves that will make progress possible, and finally, on developing a global level of consciousness about what our responsibilities to each other are and what our relationships ought to be.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
benefits, burdens, developing, engaged, global, level of consciousness, mainly, modern world, reducing, responsibilities, spreading, terrorism
«It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
American, American Express, democratic, disease, expresses, herd, herding, level, reducing, The American, The Herd, tyranny, unique, vice
«When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
attempt, enterprises, level, reducing
«Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
finite, reducing, The Process
«The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
at one time, day by day, Downing, flute, flutes, gratifying, gymnastic, idling, neglecting, occupied, occurs, one time, practicing, reducing
«Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is»
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