Diminishing Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in. — Thomas Keller
We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . .… — Ronald Reagan
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
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
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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