Best Diminish Wisdom
250 Diminish quotes by 221 unique authors
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If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics…
— Karl Rove
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After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me…
— Bruce Springsteen
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
— Stendhal
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Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it…
— Dylan Thomas
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One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
— Howard Zinn
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Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
— Margaret Heffernan
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Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.
— Joss Whedon
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The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is…
— Norman Mailer
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Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it…
— Sigmund Freud
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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 an imponderably…
— Maya Angelou
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No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.
— Dean Koontz
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A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.
— Robert Ludlum
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I found that as I flipped the days on the calendar, the worries I had about our relationship had began to diminish.
— Nicholas Sparks
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Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.
— Eric S. Nylund
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It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger--…
— Lev Grossman
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But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet…
— Tom Robbins
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How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in…
— Michael Shermer
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
— Ezra Pound
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If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes. Share your problems only with the Divine,…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Your green eye is a reducing chamber. If I look into it long enough, I wil become as small as my own reflection, I will…
— Angela Carter
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Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have…
— Julian Barnes
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The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the…
— Emma Goldman
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