Lessen Quotes
99 quotes by 92 authors
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Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.
— Emily Greene Balch
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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole…
— Annie Besant
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It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies.
— Celso Amorim
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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my…
— Henry Morton Stanley
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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew…
— Benjamin Rush
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I believe that where the love of God is perfected and the true spirit of government watchfully attended to, a tenderness toward all creatures will…
— John Woolman
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend.…
— James Russell Lowell
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In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling…
— Wynn Bullock
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The preaching of the faith has lost nothing of its relevance in our times. The Church has a sacred duty to proclaim it without any…
— Pope Pius XII
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Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name…
— Noah Webster
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If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when…
— Alexander Hamilton
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During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its…
— Thomas Jefferson
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You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small.…
— Henry B. Eyring
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This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Without repentance, there is no real progress or improvement in life. Pretending there is no sin does not lessen its burden and pain. Suffering for…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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