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• Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Quality, Term, Expressive

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• God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

  Philip Yancey

  Greatness, Space, Desire

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Jun 28, 2012

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• The truth is, the older you get, the less variety of parts you are offered. If you're a star and you've spent most of your career being able to take your pick of the litter, you notice when the offers start to diminish. You're too old to play leads, so you're offered the supporting role - but many stars don't want to make that transition. They see it as a sign of symbolic impotence. And that the audience will no longer regard them as a star. I love acting, and I'm not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Stars, Thinking, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Inner darkness, which we call ignorance, is the root of suffering. The more inner light that comes, the more darkness will diminish. This is the only way to achieve salvation or nirvana.

  Dalai Lama

  Ignorance, Light, Roots

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• Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow? It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it; tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn't diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.

  Adam Gopnik

  Men, People, Littles

  "Fascinating history" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. April 9, 2012.

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• The hastily crafted [stimulus] bill, with its corrupt funding of ACORN and other favors, is a disgracefully irresponsible effort to expand the public sector, diminish the private sector, empower the autocrats, and further divest us of our individual liberties - all at the expense of present and future generations.

  David Limbaugh

  Empowering, Effort, Liberty

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• Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.

  James Cook

  Wealth, Pleasure, Enjoyment

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• Yet the experience of four thousand years should enlarge our hopes, and diminish our apprehensions: we cannot determine to what height the human species may aspire in their advances towards perfection; but it may safely be presumed, that no people, unless the face of nature is changed, will relapse into their original barbarism.

  Edward Gibbon

  Years, Perfection, People

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.445

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• For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virtue. The true ends of temporal life lie beyond it, and, though the tyrannical State may diminish virtue, the benevolent State cannot procure it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Christian, Lying, Responsibility

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• The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.

  Mark Steyn

  Responsibility, People, Pockets

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• Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Self, Half, Poverty

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Art of Personality”, Library of Alexandria

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• It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Hollywood, Culture

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• We should never let ambition cause us to sacrifice our integrity or diminish our efforts in other areas. However, we need to remember that we never reach a serious goal unless we have the intention of doing so.

  John Wooden

  Integrity, Ambition, Sacrifice

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.94, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Animal, Men, Kingdoms

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom.

  Rene Descartes

  Grace, Natural, Divine

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• It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Errors, Progressive, Truth Is

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “And It Came to Pass — Not to Stay”, p.30, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• That which serves our spirits enhances our bodies. That which diminishes our spirits diminishes our bodies.

  Caroline Myss

  Body, Spirit

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.76, Harmony

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• Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.

  Vera Nazarian

  Song, Sound, Harmony

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• So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work... Their scientific meaning and purpose now clear to me: food to increase the mass, peace to diminish the retarding force, and work to increase the force accelerating human movement.

  Nikola Tesla

  Energy, Three, Purpose

  "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy". "Century" Illustrated Magazine, Volume 60, June 1900.

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• Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

  Jonathan Swift

  Nails, Mindfulness, Scratches

  Jonathan Swift (2011). “Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings”, p.625, Bantam Classics

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• If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift.

  Eavan Boland

  Grief, Ifs

  Eavan Boland (2008). “Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion : Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Don't diminish yourself in any way. Dare to be all that you are.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Way, Dare

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• The stress of an action diminishes rapidly after that action is performed.

  Marshall Sylver

  Stress, Action

  Marshall Sylver (1997). “Passion Profit Power”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. When we succeed in this, we find that the scale of our own problems diminishes. This is not to say we should ignore our own needs altogether, but rather that we should try to remember others' needs alongside our own, no matter how pressing ours may be

  Dalai Lama

  Self, Focus, Anxiety

  The Dalai Lama (2012). “The Essence Of Wisdom”, p.54, Hachette UK

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• Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Nursing, Breastfeeding, Doe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.223, Penguin

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