Diminish Quotes - Page 5

• A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dream, Play, Symphony

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.89, Open Road Media

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• The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Power, Roles, Gains

  "Afghanistan in the '80s was superpowers' battle over Eurasia - Brzezinski". The RT Interview, www.rt.com. September 21, 2010.

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• A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from one to another.But when it encroaches on productive consumption it diminishes public riches.

  Antoine Destutt de Tracy

  Philosophy, Sacrifice, Government

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• If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  War, Passion, Independence

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• I feel like that's how women feel in a way. You can get paranoid because everyone actually is a conspiracy to diminish your power.

  Anna Biller

  Way, Conspiracy, Paranoid

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our confidence in human methods diminishes.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Humanity, Spirit, Determined

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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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• The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence.

  Thomas Berry

  Community, Damage, World

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

  Muhammad Ali

  People, Prejudice, Civil Rights

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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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• Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.

  Hannes Alfven

  Science, Opportunity, Discipline

  "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 192, 1998.

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• Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem. It is heartbreaking how criticism can wound children and diminish their self-esteem.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Children, Self Esteem, Self Worth

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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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• 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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• 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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• Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident. . . . Every little qualifier whittles away some fraction of the reader's trust. Readers want a writer who believes in himself and in what he is saying. Don't diminish that belief. Don't be kind of bold. Be bold.

  William Zinsser

  Believe, Writing, Want

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• We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Memories, Leica

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• A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Chess Pieces, Numbers, Boards

  José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt

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