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I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did.


Brian Setzer


#backwards #brain #cat #did #diminished

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.


William Shenstone


#degree #diminished #had #his #knowledge

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.


William Shenstone


#beauty #diminish #former #grandeur #increase

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?


Ted Olson


#another #anyone #argument #couples #diminish

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.


John Badham


#bad #considerably #diminished #enough #free

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.


Jack Schwartz


#arab #diminish #distort #else #hands

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.


Frances Burney


#contentment #curb #diminish #enjoyment #expectation

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.


Howard Zinn


#diminish #effect #expression #freedom #freedom of expression

When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.


Deepak Chopra


#beings #conserve #cooperate #diminishing #fight

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.


Anthony Trollope


#compatible #diminished #ever #happiness #hardly






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