Best Diminishes Quotes
140 Diminishes quotes by 118 unique authors
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We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the…
— Mitch Daniels
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Fear of punishment diminishes self-esteem and goodwill.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but…
— Ariel Durant
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The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is…
— Horace Mann
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All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.
— Mark Doty
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Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing…
— Ian Mortimer
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Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves…
— A.A. Attanasio
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Our greatest strength isn't our ability to imagine brighter days ahead, it is that we are empowered-in every present moment-to effortlessly dismiss any dark thought…
— Guy Finley
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As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions of executive power…
— Unknown Author
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E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. The original statement is: If a body gives off the energy L in the form…
— Albert Einstein
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Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's…
— Frederick Buechner
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I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words towards any one, for neither the one nor…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
— William James
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Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.
— Phylicia Rashad
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Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.
— Ramsey Clark
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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow…
— Victor Hugo
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Love is the air that I breathe, like oxygen. When I lack it, I feel atrophied, asphyxiated. When I have it, I feel I am…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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When I seek him, root my values and desires in him, when I found my relationships and sense of self on him, my capacity for…
— Gregory S. Paul
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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
— May Sarton
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In the presence of your Satguru, knowledge flourishes; sorrow diminishes; without any reason joy wells up; lack diminishes, abundance dawns and all talents manifest
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround…
— Igor Stravinsky
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We (Christians) are always in the presence of God. There is never a non-sacred moment! His presence never diminishes. Our awareness of His presence may…
— Max Lucado
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That which serves our spirits enhances our bodies. That which diminishes our spirits diminishes our bodies.
— Caroline Myss
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