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• Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

  Ted Olson

  Marriage, Sex, Couple

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  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

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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• America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Hippie, Cities, America

  "Pelosi, Daschle Respond to Bush". Nancy Pelosi's official response to President Bush's 'State of the Union' address, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2004.

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• I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Jobs, Real, Mean

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• We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Believe, Opposites, Perfect

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• Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

  Francois Rabelais

  Memories, Men, Kind Deeds

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• Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.

  Paul Rand

  Running, Artist, Long

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• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Romantic, I Miss You

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• It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those mountains. If this could be I might die in peace, feeling that my people, placed in their native homes, would increase in numbers, rather than diminish as at present, and that our name would not become extinct.

  Geronimo

  Father, Home, Land

  Geronimo, S. M. Barrett (2016). “Geronimo's Story of His Life: As Told to S. M. Barrett”, p.105, Open Road Media

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• Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the federal government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Light, Government, Liberty

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• How much soccer training is it needed to become a top player? It depends on the efficiency of your training routine. Setting long and short-term goals is a must. When planning out a soccer training regime, one must strive for realistic and consistent program that will diminish specific weaknesses. Broad versatility of soccer skills is the Nirvana of every dedicated trainee.

  Pele

  Soccer, Player, Skills

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• Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them. They end on Monkey Hill.

  Cyril Connolly

  Food, Cooking, Abuse

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• I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Satisfaction, Faults

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1848). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and a Continuation”, p.112

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• Have you found your life distasteful?
  My life did, and does, smack sweet.
  Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
  Mine I saved and hold complete.
  Do your joys with age diminish?
  When mine fail me, I'll complain.
  Must in death your daylight finish?
  My sun sets to rise again.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Sweet, Failure

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.42

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• When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.

  Muhammad Ali

  People, Prejudice, Civil Rights

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• Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Change, Hard Times, Loving Life

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• Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours.

  Penny Wong

  Doe, Marriage Equality, Sexuality

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• Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.

  Robert Breault

  Inspiring, Travel, Add

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• Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.

  Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Passion, Boredom, Increase

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• It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more remote they seem: the more we study them, the more we have yet to learn. Time augments rather than diminishes their everlasting novelty; and to our descendants of a thousand years hence it may safely be predicted that they will be even more fascinating than to ourselves. This is true of many ancient lands, but of no place is it. so true as of Egypt.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Book, Science, Egypt

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• Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.

  John C. Maxwell

  Success, Attitude, Thinking

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.76, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.

  Giorgio Armani

  Life, Change, Philosophy

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• Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of our own species.

  Peter Singer

  Pain, Animal, Suffering

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• Admitting your weaknesses does not diminish your strengths: it shows your courage.

  Erin Andrews

  Cheerleading, Weakness, Doe

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• I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.

  Angelina Jolie

  Motivational, Strong Women, Cancer

  "Angelina Jolie's mastectomy account raises awareness of gene testing" by Ed Pilkington and Haroon Siddique, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2013.

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