A Quote by Khalil Gibran

As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

Khalil Gibran

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Decrease Friends Gifts His Increase

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Khalil Gibran
Lebanese - Poet
January 6, 1883 - April 10, 1931

There's nothing you can do to increase or decrease the love that God has for you, but there are things you can do that increase or decrease your awareness of that love. That's certainly been my experience.

Pete Holmes

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

Mark Twain

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

Richard Stallman

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.

Benjamin Franklin

Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which is more an increase than a decrease in dependence.

Herman E. Daly

European-style interventions to which the Obama administration is inclined will not make America more competitive in the world-wide economy. Such policies will not increase growth, will not decrease unemployment, and will not increase wages for workers.

Elaine Chao

The gifts of grace increase as the sorrows increase.

Rose of Lima

The increase in accidents is disappointing. But the decrease in total fatalities is a hopeful sign.

Mark Rosenker

A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.

George Will

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

Larry Elder

Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?

Simon Kuznets

The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors.

John B. Anderson

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

Henry Ford

The investor has the benefit of the stock market's daily and changing appraisal of his holdings, 'for whatever that appraisal may be worth', and, second, that the investor is able to increase or decrease his investment at the market's daily figure - 'if he chooses'. Thus the existence of a quoted market gives the investor certain options which he does not have if his security is unquoted. But it does not impose the current quotation on an investor who prefers to take his idea of value from some other source.