#dim

The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests. ↗

— Stephen Hadley

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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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But actors with political views are a dime a dozen. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#dozen #political #political views #views

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview. ↗

— Ben Harper

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As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi. ↗

— Beth Henley

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You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. ↗

— George Herman

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Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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