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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years. ↗

— Vince Cable

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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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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. ↗

— Lucretius

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How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. ↗

— Marya Mannes

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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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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. ↗

— Rosa Parks

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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

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I wish that Iraq had not happened - and that we had not lost touch with so many of our natural supporters. But this should have provided an opportunity for the Liberal Democrats as a party. Yet their protest gains are now diminishing. ↗

— Lucy Powell

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