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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.
America's role in the global economy inevitably was going to diminish; we're smaller relative to - as China, India, other emerging markets grow.
The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
A man can add to his sexuality by being funny, whereas a woman can diminish hers. I don't know why that's the case: it's completely unfair.
War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.
I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.
Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.
Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm
I found that as I flipped the days on the calendar, the worries I had about our relationship had began to diminish.
My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.
Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customer's use or by creating uncertainty.
Hollywood does seem like the holy grail. Not to diminish anything from other countries, but it's the most mainstream and hardest to be a part of because there are so many people in it.
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.
Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility.
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.
I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!
Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours.
Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).
Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.
To diminish the cases in which the assistance of others is felt absolutely necessary is the only genuine road to independence.
It is the world's limitations and the myths that we internalize about ourselves that pushes us to diminish our power and ignore it.
It is not enough to have a light; it must be shared with others! For the darkness to diminish, we must eagerly share the truth!
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices.
One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.
No matter how far society “progresses,” our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need.
I had the erroneous conviction that all of history tended toward my birth and would diminish into chaos or inconsequence after I was gone. When you realize that's not so, the proper humility is to defer.
Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?
When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.
The capacity to influence radical groups can diminish significantly once they are viewed as indispensable coalition partners and are able to intimidate the electorate with the authority of the state behind them.
If you're going to make the argument that Fox is conservative, you can't make it very easily unless you diminish my role.
We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65]
Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline.
I profess myself a citizen of the world, totally unfettered by the little, mean distinctions of climate or of country, which diminish the benevolence of the heart and set bounds to philanthropy.
Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy!
If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.
Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes.
Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.
Trans justice calls on us to combat the blend of prejudices that demean the lives and diminish the autonomy of another person.
I used the bus when I was growing up in Brazil. I don't want to diminish anyone who travels on the bus, but I haven't done that for a long time.
Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.
Diminish us across the board. They [Russians] do not wish us well.
Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.
Entertainment is the devils substitute for joy, and when you get satisfaction out of that dumb thing, your joy will diminish.
The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.
No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.
Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it.
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
