#eduction

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

— Jack Reed

#destroy #final #most #reduction #warheads

Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#both #deficit #deficit reduction #dictates #fairness

I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#allow #believe #condition #contribute #coupled

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#adventure #deductions #detailed #endeavoured #friends

The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics. ↗

— John Sununu

#deduction #great #incentive #interests #loophole

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

— Donella Meadows

#actually #agree #climate #like #more

The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness into glamorous thrill, seduces the onlooker into the game – and leaves him or her with the corpse on his hands. ↗

— Jennifer Birkett

#corpse #corruption #mask #seduction #squalor

Seduction is an art that is tested in the mirror ↗

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

#romaticism #seduction #art

Beautiful Hannah. If you were mine, I'd lay you on silk sheets and wrap you up in ropes of pearls, and feed you honey from a silver spoon. Of course, you wouldn't be able to make all your high-minded judgments if you were a fallen woman...but you wouldn't care. Because I would pleasure you, Hannah, every night, all night, until you forgot your own name. Until you were willing to do things that would shock you in the light of day. I would debauch you from your head down to your innocent little toes-" "Oh, I despise you... ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#pearls #seduction #sexy-words #beauty

And I, a vampire who had seduced countless mortals in his impossibly long existence, was forced to admit that it was she, this beautiful young human female, who had instead seduced me. ↗

— Krisi Keley

#stalking #vampies #beauty