"It is passivity that dulls feeling." — Susan Sontag

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• Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. — Frank Leahy
• A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon… — Marvin J. Ashton
• There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook. — Gordon B. Hinckley
• Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset… — Rudolf Rocker
• Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to… — Fran Tarkenton
• The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust… — Unknown Author
• If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. ...… — Daniel H. Pink
• Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of… — Barbara Johnson
• Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse. — Mary Daly
• The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying the things you do not have to say… — William Stafford
• I have my misgivings about 3-D. I don't like the lack of blacks and whites, how it dulls the image,… — Alfonso Cuaron
• Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted… — Dag Hammarskjold

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