Diminishment Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.
— Thomas Eisner
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Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up, however much our…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring…
— Dawna Markova
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And so, a prediction, and my heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love. YOU…
— George Saunders
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The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.
— Peter Shaffer
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To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the…
— David Quammen
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Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy's house and beats a confession out of him and we…
— Gerry Spence
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Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between…
— Edward Hirsch
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Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but…
— Julian Barnes
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Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing…
— Bill O'Reilly
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Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life…
— Paul Watson
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Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person.…
— Michael Gurian
Who Wrote These Diminishment Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 Diminishment Quotes as follows: