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As I confronted her, the changes grew less apparent to me, her identity stronger. She was there, in the full vigour of her personality, battered but not diminished, looking at me, speaking to me in the husky, breathy voice I remembered so well.
willa cather— Book V, Ch. 1
If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause occurring of a diminished demand for commodities, this scantiness of capital would certainly occasion great inconvenience to consumers, and great distress among the working classes; but it would be attended with great advantages to the remaining capitalists.
thomas malthus— Book II, Chapter I, On The Progress of Wealth, Section X, p. 414 (See also: Karl Marx, Capital Volume I, Chapter 25, Section 4(e), p. 742
Left home in company with John Dixon to attend the internment of George Stephenson at Chesterfield. I fear he died an unbeliever. When I reflect on my first acquaintance with him and the resulting consequences my mind seems lost in doubt as to the beneficial results — that humanity has been benefited in the diminished use of horses and by the lessened cruelty to them, that much ease, safety, speed, and lessened expense in travelling is obtained, but as to the results and effects of all that railways had led my dear family into, being in any sense beneficial is uncertain.
george stephenson— Edward Pease, diary entry (1846-08-16)
If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause occurring of a diminished demand for commodities, this scantiness of capital would certainly occasion great inconvenience to consumers, and great distress among the working classes; but it would be attended with great advantages to the remaining capitalists.
— Book II, Chapter I, On The Progress of Wealth, Section X, p. 414 (See also: Karl Marx, Capital Volume I, Chapter 25, Section 4(e), p. 742
For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.
— Ron Kind, in Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 26 (Tuesday, March 8, 2005)
If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause occurring of a diminished demand for commodities, this scantiness of capital would certainly occasion great inconvenience to consumers, and great distress among the working classes; but it would be attended with great advantages to the remaining capitalists.
— Thomas Malthus (1836) Principles of Political Economy. Book II, Chapter I, On The Progress of Wealth, Section X, p. 414
If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.
Arthur Cecil Pigou— 1920 Economics ofWelfare.
Cambodiawasnot a mistake; it was a crime.The world is diminished by the experience.
— 1979 Sideshow, afterword.
Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands?but?he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.
Adam Smith— 1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.2, ch.3.
A precept claiming infallibility should certainly possess the universality of the law of gravitation and the perfection of the arithmetical table. If it fails to possess these undeviating qualities, its imperfection is self-evident and its value either greatly diminished or useless.
joseph lewis— The Ten Commandments
LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
David Ricardo— Chapter V, On Wages, p. 52
For in every country of the world, I believe, the avarice and injustice of princes and sovereign states, abusing the confidence of their subjects, have by degrees diminished the real quantity of metal, which had been originally contained in their coins.
Adam Smith— Chapter IV, p. 34
I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
Bram Stoker— The Keeper in the Zoological Gardens
For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.
augustine of hippo— 1:1:1 English LatinLatin: Omnis enim res quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur quomodo habenda est.
The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country, consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our restaurants are full of people.
Silvio Berlusconi— Denying the heaviness of the Italian crisis, during the news conference after the end of the G20 summit held in Cannes (3-4 November 2011), as reported in "Napolitano ammonisce: attuare impegni. Premier: la crisi non c'è, ristoranti pieni" in Il Messaggero (4 November 2011), and "Silvio Berlusconi shrugs off IMF's financial checks on Italy. Prime minister insists Italy is in good health, with debts under control, and points to full restaurants as proof of strength" in The Guardian (4 November 2011)
The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.
jorge luis borges— "Note on Walt Whitman" ["Nota sobre Walt Whitman"]
One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.
kenneth boulding— p.95 (The Economy of Love and Fear, 1973)
When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death . for nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
giordano bruno— Introductory Epistle
The love they felt wasn’t, of course, what it once had been; the attraction between them had gradually diminished, the attraction had diminished a great deal. But to be separated, that wasn’t what they themselves wanted.
constantine p. cavafy— Before Time Altered Them
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.
anaïs nin— The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5, as quoted in Moving to Antarctica : An Anthology of Women's Writing (1975) by Margaret Kaminski
Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
— Mrs. Jameson, Memoirs and Essays, Washington Allston.
But, fortunately for mankind, the neat rents of the land, under a system of private property, can never be diminished by the progress of cultivation.
— Book I, Chapter III, Of the Rent of Land, Section IX, p. 216
Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the diminution of capital . Every reduction of capital is therefore necessarily followed by a less effective demand for corn, by a fall in price, and by a diminished cultivation.
— David Ricardo, On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, (Third Edition),Chapter II, p. 41
Say this prayer every night , and if it works, we'll live forever: "Dear Lord, whose mercy 's not diminished, let me live till the airport's finished."
— Mike Zelinsky, as quoted in Herb Caen, as quoted in "What the Cat Dragged In: Aug. 16, 1996" by Herb Caen, in SFGate.com (16 August 1996)
If individual citizens may be held liable in damages for strong words, which a jury finds false and maliciously motivated, there can be little doubt that public debate and advocacy will be constrained. And if newspapers, publishing advertisements dealing with public issues, thereby risk liability, there can also be little doubt that the ability of minority groups to secure publication of their views on public affairs and to seek support for their causes will be greatly diminished.
— Justice Arthur Joseph Goldberg, decision, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, Supreme Court of the United States, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)
War is one of the constants of history, and has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
— Will and Ariel Durant, Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY
Characteristically, major social movements are spawned in obscurity at the periphery of public awareness, seem to burst suddenly and dramatically into public view, and eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.
— Freda Adler (1975) Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal. p.5.
For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.
— 1:1:1 English Latin
— Latin: Omnis enim res quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur quomodo habenda est.
