#reduce

In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#fun #gets #i #making #me

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. ↗

— Robert Southey

#deception #else #falsehood #indeed #into

Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#announcing #costs #eliminate #final #hundreds

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. ↗

— Edwin Way Teale

#eliminating #labors #life #needless #reduce

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether. ↗

— Luis Bunuel

#between #chance #despite #fact #fortunately

I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#carry #certain #cockroaches #door #energy

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic. ↗

— Jan Morris

#love #mystic #reduce

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. ↗

— Stewart Alsop

#achieve #believes #defined #essentials #everything

Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs. ↗

— John Thune

#dakota #dependence #energy #energy security #ethanol

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. ↗

— James Thurber

#depend #economics #farce #funnier #his