#lessen

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. ↗

— Robert Southey

#each #friendship #lapse #lessen #other

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#life #meals #thy

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#anxiety #been #bit #feel #female

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#average #enables #exploit #his #judgment

Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#course #desire #employ #end #everything

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#end #end of the world #enthusiasm #i #lessen

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#carriers #command #difficulty #duty #expedition

Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value. ↗

— Phil Condit

#company #eliminating #enhance #entire #expanding

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing. ↗

— Eminem

#best #doing #ever #feel #feel good

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#between #bridge #difference #emotional #forms