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I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. — John Ruskin
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the… — Albert Schweitzer
Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying,… — Iyanla Vanzant
Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available… — Douglas Rushkoff
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun… — Michael Pollan
Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of… — Mike Yaconelli
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities… — Bertrand Russell
As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?... There'll likely be a point of diminishing returns,… — Dean Karnazes
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown… — Frank O'Hara
The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in… — William Faulkner
A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our… — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
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 King, Jr.
A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be… — Mahatma Gandhi
I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for… — William Faulkner
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns. — John Maurice Clark
Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at that — Jan Garavaglia
For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
A lot of people are deeply dissatisfied by the diminishing control they have over their lives, because of the way our system of government is… — Josh Fox
As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its… — Arne Glimcher
Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things. — Anne-Marie Duff
While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction. — Steve Jurvetson
Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor. — Yotam Ottolenghi
September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in… — Rory Stewart
Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act. — Walter Kirn

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