Diminish Quotes
250 quotes by 228 authors
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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
— Bernard Berenson
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase…
— Fanny Burney
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If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons…
— William J. Clinton
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Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
— John C. Maxwell
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These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your trust in the Son of…
— Neil L. Andersen
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to…
— Herbert Spencer
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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
— Mark Twain
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Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm
— Sun Tzu
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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is…
— Maya Angelou
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One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they…
— Sigmund Freud
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Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this…
— William E. Gladstone
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What you think upon grows. Whatever you allow to occupy your mind you magnify in your life. Whether the subject of your thought be good…
— Emmet Fox
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To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national…
— John Ashcroft
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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…
— Charles Evans Hughes
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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…
— Pele
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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…
— Thomas Berry
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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,…
— Cyril Connolly
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When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.
— Muhammad Ali
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Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours.
— Penny Wong
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