Diminish Quotes - Page 16

• to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

  Fanny Burney

  Expectations, Increase, Enjoyment

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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• Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.

  Kathy Reichs

  Soul, Humanity, Violence

  Kathy Reichs (2006). “Break No Bones: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

  Eve Ensler

  Women, Violence, Mechanism

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• If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Cancer, Complaining, Constant

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• every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all.

  Marcia Muller

  Death, Differences, Painful

  Marcia Muller (2011). “The Shape of Dread”, p.171, AudioGO

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• The critical principle of feminist theology is the promotion of the full humanity of women. Whatever denies, diminishes, or distorts the full humanity of women is, therefore, appraised as not redemptive.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Women, Feminist, Humanity

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• Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people who have a pattern, who've built a career out of dividing people and who built a career out of often not just Obama but finding ways to degrade and diminish African-Americans and African-American leaders. It's racist to consistently make your living on the backs of black people.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Careers, Judging, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious food. So, I'm not prepared to give up meat. I don't think we need to give up meat, but we certainly need to change the way we raise meat and diminish the amount of it in our diet.

  Michael Pollan

  Giving Up, Thinking, People

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Animal, May

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.222, Penguin

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• Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.

  Andrew Michael Ramsay

  Intense, Pleasure, Increase

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• A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Moving, Book, Way

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• We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.

  Dean Koontz

  People, Evil, Laughing

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.139, Bantam

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• Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it.

  Omar Khayyam

  Drinking, Sleep, Heaven

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• Our feelings of separation from God will diminish as we become more childlike before Him. That is not easy in a world where the opinions of other human beings can have such an effect on our motives. But it will help us recognize this truth: God is close to us and aware of us and never hides from His faithful children.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Feelings, Faithful

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• Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Greatness, Imagination

  Bertrand Russell (1997). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.161, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility.

  Leo Rosten

  Minorities, Facts, Disapproval

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• Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at your from within and attacks the immune system. When you have hatred inside you, it always crushes you in the end.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Crush, Hatred, Feelings

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• As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.

  Justin Welby

  Support, Needs, Vulnerable

  "Archbishop of Canterbury attacks Government welfare reforms" by Edward Malnick, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 9, 2013.

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• I believe investors should invest for the long run, so I don't buy and sell. I usually maintain the classic index of global equities, diversified U.S. and global and emerging markets, and when the risk is larger, I diminish the amount in global equities and put more into liquid assets - but very irregularly.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Running, Believe, Long

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• How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is better to focus on your uniqueness and do that with excellence than to end up with mediocrity in several areas.

  Dan Miller

  Struggle, Focus, Excellence

  Dan Miller (2007). “48 Days to the Work You Love”, p.77, B&H Publishing Group

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• Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

  Bryce Courtenay

  Ignorance, Racism, Brain

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• My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes.

  Noah Baumbach

  Dad, Eye, Jerk

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• I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for neither diminishes the strength of the enemy.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Insulting, Enemy

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• Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.

  Peter Drucker

  Cancer, Growth, Add

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• What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?

  Albert Camus

  Power, Hands, Order

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