Lessens Quotes
49 quotes by 45 authors
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Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest like…
— Sivananda Radha Saraswati
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A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his breast. If he…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
— Clare Boothe Luce
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Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural.
— Edward Westermarck
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Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇŒoyments, it only shifts expenses from one…
— Antoine Destutt de Tracy
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But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and…
— Lawrence Taylor
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I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of…
— Lena Dunham
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Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Acquaintance lessens fame.
— Claudius
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I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act to help end discrimination to help end discrimination against same-sex couples in this…
— Barack Obama
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely…
— Clare Boothe Luce
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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
— J C Ryle
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I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar.…
— Maya Lin
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Every foundation stone that is laid for a Temple, and every Temple completed according to the order the Lord has revealed for his holy Priesthood,…
— George Q. Cannon
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When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Hope of gain lessens pain.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds…
— George Grenville
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