"The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be……" — Aldous Huxley

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• If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. — Charles Baudelaire
• When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened,… — Maya Angelou
• Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have… — Laozi
• Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand… — Carl Sagan
• Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be… — Judith Viorst
• The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the… — Henry David Thoreau
• Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you… — Alan Cohen
• The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing… — Robert Aris Willmott
• One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the… — Bertrand Russell
• Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that… — Isaac Newton
• It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which… — James Madison
• The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears… — Charles R. Swindoll

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