- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diminishes Quotes
What diminishes, slowly or all at once.
This collection of diminishes quotes covers fading reputations, civil liberty, and national security, showing how loss can be gradual or structural. See our Death quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
My views of the missionary object are, indeed, different from what they were when I was first set on fire by Buchanan's 'Star in the East' six years ago. But it does not always happen that a closer acquaintance with an object diminishes our attachment and preference.
- Glowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think cutting our defense capacity not only demonstrably diminishes our national security, but it has a tremendous negative impact in the long run on our economy because we end up having to fight wars and clean up after terrorist disasters.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.
- Talent
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- Nov 07, 2020
As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the reason why so many actors lose the plot when they go over to America is that they become part of an industry, so that's why they don't want to play weak, bad or vulnerable guys - because that's not sellable; that diminishes their profit margin.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't usually say 'working mom' because I think all moms are working moms. I feel like that diminishes moms. People should say 'working dad' as opposed to working moms.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Russia's economy is both cursed and blessed by oil. When the oil price goes up, there is a tremendous 'wealth effect' spilling over into all corners of the economy, but this diminishes the drive to develop other industries to diversify away from overreliance on oil.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clothing that covers the body can be comfortable or uncomfortable, depending on the fabric. In India I typically wear a full salwaar kameez of cotton, because it is superbly comfortable, and full covering keeps dust off one's limbs and at least diminishes the risk of skin cancer.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Banks and credit agencies learn continuously about the purchases we make. This is convenient and diminishes the risk of theft. It also means that banks can know more about our lifestyle than our close relatives.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020