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• I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Progress, Would Be

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• Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Self, Forever, Treasure

  Irvin D. Yalom (2010). “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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• In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Lying

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• The work I do to let go of my suffering diminishes the suffering of the whole universe. When I have room for my own pain, I have room for the pain of others. Only then can I be transformed into joy. As I heal, the Earth heals.

  Christiane Northrup

  Letting Go, Pain, Healing

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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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• When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you are lost in it, your ego diminishes. And when the ego diminishes, love infinite appears.

  Meher Baba

  Forget Everything, Ego, Too Much

  Meher Baba (1972). “The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba”

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• Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Average, Evil, Affliction

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• Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Crush, Money, Motivation

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• What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.

  David Whyte

  Mind, Doe, Care

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• Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.

  Robert Muller

  Forgiveness, Self, Forgiving

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• Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Solitude, Facts, Kind

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• Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

  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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• 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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• God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Order, Doe

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.57, Criss Jami

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• A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Holy, Contradiction

  "Hope, Despair and Memory". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1986.

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• I don't watch TV. I think that tends to polarize us and diminish important issues.

  Daryl Hannah

  Thinking, Issues, Important

  "SENSE8: Daryl Hannah Reflects on Performing in the Wachowskis’ Latest Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 10, 2015.

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