#diminish

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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.


Francois Rabelais


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But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.


Gerard Arpey


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The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.


Antony Beevor


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Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.


Brian Ferneyhough


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The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.


Hermann von Helmholtz


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I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.


Dean Koontz


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The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.


Dean Koontz


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I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.


Ricky Williams


#diminished #feel #game #i #like

I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.


Randy Moss


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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.


Francois de La Rochefoucauld


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