Diminishing Quotes
112 quotes by 105 authors
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An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human…
— Clara Barton
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When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.
— Deepak Chopra
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We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival…
— Jim Wright
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It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing....
— Andre Gide
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From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the…
— David Hume
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The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing…
— Marya Mannes
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it…
— Martin Luther
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It is a terrible, an inexorable law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim,…
— James A. Baldwin
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It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending spree. The downside,…
— Pete Gill
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There was a rhythm to the canter. Up, forward, down; up, forward, down. It soon became pleasant. The broad warm rump felt good beneath her.…
— Morgan Llywelyn
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The increasing remoteness of consanguinity is everyday diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever with great reason…
— Alexander Hamilton
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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Contrary to the claims of the supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the sponsors of H.Res. 676, the Civil Rights Act of…
— Ron Paul
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The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.
— Thomas Keller
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We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . .…
— Ronald Reagan
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The nature of freedom of choice is that some people will misuse their responsibility and hurt themselves in the process. We should do our best…
— George McGovern
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In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is the way it…
— L. W. Sumner
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Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing…
— Abraham Foxman
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