#reduced

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families. ↗

— Asa Gray

#best #cause #explaining #extinction #families

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#condescending #elemental #everybody #level #loves

India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#dependence #i #india #iranian #know

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels. ↗

— Jon Corzine

#been #congress #current #failure #hour

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#girlfriend #giving #god #i #introduced

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#cannot #god #reduced #sample

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. ↗

— Walter Pater

#conjecture #each #ever #experience #group

The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#certain #could #countries #international #level

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced. ↗

— Henry W. Kendall

#destruction #environment #growth #our #population

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator. ↗

— George Santayana

#common #common denominator #denominator #exist #felt