Top Diminished Quotes
Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt Disney
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
Wallace Shawn
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
William Shenstone
If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.
David Ricardo
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.
Barbara Colorose
Richard Le Gallienne 
William Banting 
Walt Disney 
John Irving 
John M. McHugh 
Anthony Trollope 
T. S. Eliot 
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The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.
Constance Baker Motley 
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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
Charles Baudelaire
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In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.
Richard Le Gallienne
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I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.
Laura Hillenbrand
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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
T. S. Eliot
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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
Charles de Secondat
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When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.
Joni Mitchell
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Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.
Joe Klein
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Benjamin FranklinCharles BaudelaireLenny KravitzT. S. EliotAnthony TrollopeWalt DisneyDag HammarskjoldConstance Baker MotleyCharles de SecondatRon KindJoni MitchellJohn IrvingDavid RicardoJohn Buchanan RobinsonRichard Le Gallienne
Robert ToombsLaura HillenbrandJohn M. McHughWilliam ShenstoneEmily Greene BalchBrian SetzerGerard ArpeyAndrew EldritchEarl BlumenauerHermann von HelmholtzWilliam BantingJohn BadhamFreda AdlerJoe KleinWallace Shawn
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