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  • I make a lot of money. I can take a pay cut. All my friends are taking pay cuts that are in the unions, that are - that are farming in Alabama or whatever it is. I can surely take a pay cut, too, not cutting down my show or - or the people that work for me, I can take a pay cut.

    Cutting   People   Unions  
  • Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than 4 billion people. In addition, if all agriculture were organic, you would have to increase cropland area dramatically, spreading out into marginal areas and cutting down millions of acres of forests.

  • There are going to be a lot of problems with social cohesion. We are already cutting down everything to the bone. Unless there is light at the end of the tunnel.

    Cutting   Tunnels   Light  
    Source: www.slate.com
  • Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.

  • That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast.

    Rain   Ocean   Cutting  
    Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.
  • I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.

    "Prune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2010.
  • We had about 60 regions in Greece and now there are only 13. It'd be like cutting down 50 states to 13 and making it more efficient.

  • Practice means cutting down chance and risk.

    Dance   Mean   Cutting  
  • Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown.' Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.

    Mean   Cutting   Missing  
    Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.163, Chronicle Books
  • I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting.

    Change   Cutting   Mind  
  • To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.

  • We’re turning everything on the planet into food for humans so we’re cutting down the rainforests, displacing all of the animals, and we’re doing all this to feed humans... ... Imagine if there were only 2 billion people polluting? We’re already overpopulated. I feel we’ve become a parasite on this planet. If this population keeps growing, we’ll just keep devouring the planet, and I don’t think it’s going to stand for that very long.

  • Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929

    Beautiful   Son   Cutting  
    John Vaillant (2015). “The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed”, p.25, Random House
  • I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

    Cutting   Tree   Humanity  
  • With time environmental issues got much more complicated. It is pretty easy, if you know what you are doing, to stop a company from pouring poison into a lake where kids swim. It is much harder to address all the myriad greenhouse gases emitted by different sources - from petrochemical refineries to hundreds of millions of peasants cutting down trees for their incredibly inefficient cook stoves.

    Kids   Cutting   Lakes  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a cutting down of mountains; that is precisely how it felt to me.

    Source: www.teemingbrain.com
  • Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

  • Don't let anything like trees in the Clearwater National Forest get in the way of providing jobs and fueling the economy, even if that means cutting down every last tree in the state.

    Jobs   Mean   Cutting  
  • The Patriot Post not only does the best job of putting important news, policy and opinion in proper context, but also of cutting down to size the pompous praters and propagandists on the left.

    Jobs   Cutting   Best Job  
  • A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete, babies are almost the only remaining link in nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.

    Inspiring   Dream   Baby  
    Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum
  • Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.

    Home   Cutting   Animal  
    "My Plans This Valentine’s Day Weekend" by Chris Noth, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.
  • Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities.

  • The value of the things is not in themselves autonomously, but that God made them, and thus they deserve to be treated with high respect. The tree in the field is to be treated with respect. It is not to be romanticized as the old lady romanticizes her cat (that is, she reads human reactions into it). This is wrong because it is not true. When you drive the axe into the tree when you need firewood, you are not cutting down a person; you are cutting down a tree. But while we should not romanticize the tree, we must realize God made it and it deserves respect because He made is as a tree.

    Cat   Cutting   Tree  
  • Don't think of death as an ending. Think of it as a really effective way of cutting down your expenses.

  • Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.

    Cutting   Men   House  
    Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.3, 谷月社
  • If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

    Peace   War   Cutting  
  • Power, as it is, has a whole apparatus operating that goes about cutting down, closing doors, so that protests, exercises, platforms, and organizations, such as the Zapatistas, can't grow further in the barrio.

    "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.
  • Economy: cutting down other people's wages.

  • I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.

    Believe   Cutting   Tree  
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