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Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

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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

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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

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Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely. ↗

— Charlton Heston

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A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

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The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

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I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have. ↗

— Susan Powter

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

— Gerard Arpey

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I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

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