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Tag Name "Diminishes" (104)

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Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things.
Dianne Feinstein
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Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Mexican government understands that when you turn 65, your ability to earn money diminishes. They don't want you kicked out of your house that you've worked your whole life for, no matter what that house is.
Jesse Ventura
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Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
Thomas Carlyle
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In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view.
Barney Frank
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Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative resentment is poisoning resentment diminishes and devours the self.
Robert Muller
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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
May Sarton
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Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.
David Petraeus
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Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.
Plutarch
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Eventually, life of the party is just like any other job. I've thought of myself that way at times, but it's sort of like holding everybody hostage. It diminishes everyone else. And ultimately, your friends don't require it of you.
Carrie Fisher
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oh how television diminishes everything.
Nancy Mitford
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A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from one to another.But when it encroaches on productive consumption it diminishes public riches.
Antoine Destutt de Tracy
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Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is and what is said further, diminishes him totally nothing more of him is left afterwards.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
Miguel de Unamuno
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The problems raised by a conscious direction of economic affairs on a national scale inevitably assume even greater dimensions when the same is attempted internationally. The conflict between planning and freedom cannot but become more serious as the similarity of standards and values among those submitted to a unitary plan diminishes.
Friedrich August von Hayek
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Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.
John Shelby Spong
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Wanting someone so much that his very presence takes your breath away is one of the most thrilling happenings in life. Not getting him in no way diminishes this.
Perry Brass
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Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.
Publilius Syrus
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The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.
Joan D. Chittister
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Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.
Everett Dirksen
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The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Acting in eight different directions, he becomes, instead of the weakest piece, one of the most formidable units.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
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One who advances his name, destroys his name. One who does not increase, diminishes.
Hillel the Elder
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Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.
William James
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