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• War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Order, Awful

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• On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them, the hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

  Gideon Welles

  Strong, Children, War

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

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Giving, Joy, Eulogy

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, Simon and Schuster

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• People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are. This capacity for caring can illuminate any relationship: marriage, family, friendships-even the ties of affection that often join humans and animals. Each of us is born with some of it, but whether we let it expand or diminish is largely up to us. To care, you have to surrender the armor of indifference. You have to be willing to act, to make the first move.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Moving, Caring, Animal

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• When there are enough people on the land to use it but not enough to husband it, then the wildness of the soil that we call fertility begins to diminish, and the soil itself begins to flee from us in water and wind.

  Wendell Berry

  Husband, Wind, Land

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• In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves on the hands seems like a nice thing to do. If you were being punched in the brain by a powerful man, wouldn't you rather he strap a pillow around his fist? But the glove doesn't do anything to diminish your brain damage.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Sports, Powerful, Nice

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world. What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Choices, Mind

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 21 (1907)

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• I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free person and not to give in to fear. I always felt that it was my right to defend myself if I could. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

  Rosa Parks

  Long Ago, Years, Knowing

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• The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in his will; but those who oppose him oppose him vainly and at their own expense, and, figuratively, seem to be more like his tools. They don't diminish his glory, but instead he still manages to use them in ways of unconsciously carrying out his will.

  Criss Jami

  Children, People, Mind

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.39, Criss Jami

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• Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy!

  Sam Storms

  Spiritual, Energy, Vigor

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• The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Office, Needs, Workers

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.143, Penguin

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• L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Fire, Wind

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• There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Eye, Color

  da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

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• Focus on the competition to diminish the time dedicated to internal politics.

  James Kerr

  Focus, Competition, Dedicated

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• There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.

  Henry Cloud

  Differences, Solitude, Isolation

  Twitter post from Feb 19, 2015

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• I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Worry, Important

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• Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Unemployment, Leisure

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• And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's more imposing cares.

  Robert Montgomery

  Heaven, Age, World

  Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.88

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• The ibtilaa' (testing) of the believer is like medicine for him. It cures him from illness. Had the illness remained it would destroy him or diminish his reward and level (in the hereafter). The tests and the trials extract these illnesses from him and prepare him for the perfect reward and the highest of degrees (in the life to come).

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Medicine, Perfect, Degrees

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• Many people do not know that they can strengthen or diminish the life around them. The way we live day to day simply may not reflect back to us our power to influence life or the web of relationships that connects us. Life responds to us anyway. We all have the power to affect others. We may affect those we know and those we do not even know at all. . . . Without our knowing, we may influence the lives of others in very simple ways.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Simple, Knowing, People

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• Imagine how differently American business would function were our faith in the power of goodness to replace our faith in the power of money. Huge industries would no longer make billions of dollars on activities that diminish the well-being and safety of our children, our health, and our environment, on the pretext that it's "just business." To put money before goodness is idolatry, and the laws of the universe ensure that in the end all idols will fall.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Fall, Idols

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• Nutrition science, however, suggests that golden rice alone will not greatly diminish vitamin A defi-ciency and associated blindness. [”¦] People whose diets lack [fats and proteins] or who have intestinal diarrheal diseases -- common in develop-ing countries -- cannot obtain vitamin A from golden rice.

  Marion Nestle

  Country, People, Disease

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• At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Voting, Democracy

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.457, Da Capo Press

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• Putting our expectations on others is a habit that keeps us feeling frustrated. It diminishes the amount of love we feel.

  Jude Bijou

  Expectations, Feelings, Frustrated

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• Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it make themselves more through a willingness to make themselves less.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Humor, Practice, Growth

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