Second, the President’s popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President

Then arises the third and inexorable question: If Civilisation has increased the producing power of the average man, why has it not bettered the lot of the average man? There can be one answer only – MISMANAGEMENT.

As imagination grew it is likely that the fear of death increased until the Folk that were to come projected this fear into the dark and peopled it with spirits.

With high underemployment – currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours – sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.

Every book was a peep-hole into the realm of knowledge. His hunger fed upon what he read, and increased.

The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.

The cure for poverty has a name, in fact: it’s called the empowerment of women. If you give women some control over the rate at which they reproduce, if you give them some say, take them off the animal cycle of reproduction to which nature and some doctrine—religious doctrine condemns them, and then if you throw in a handful of seeds perhaps and some credit, the floor of everything in that village, not just poverty, but education, health, and optimism will increase. It doesn’t matter; try and do it without empowering women, you can’t do it. The benefits are so many.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander’s will, the more the difficulties will increase.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.

I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself.

The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

There are two ways to increase your wealth—increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.