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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)
This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
john f. kennedy— Radio and television report to the American people on civil rights (June 11, 1963); reported in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, p. 468.
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
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
The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.
— 1780 Motion passed by the House of Commons.
The question that he frames in all but words Is what to make of a diminished thing.
— 1916 'The Oven Bird'.
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
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.
thomas malthus— 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.
thomas malthus— David Ricardo, On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, (Third Edition),Chapter II, p. 41
No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.
charles a. reich— Chapter XII : The Greening Of America, p. 383 ( See also: Vilfredo Pareto)
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
A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected many of the scientists in a subtle sense, and it diminished their desire to continue to work on the bomb.
Leo Szilard— "President Truman Did Not Understand" in U.S. News & World Report (15 August 1960)
Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.
leonardo da vinci— Of a ditch (XX Humorous Writings)
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.
Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.
— Mrs. Jameson, Memoirs and Essays, Washington Allston.
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
[A] great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.
Benjamin Franklin— "Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One"; The Public Advertiser (September 11, 1773).
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— Summarizing the Law of Conservation of Force, in "On the Conservation of Force" (1862), p. 280
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)
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 diminished cultivation.
— David Ricardo (1821) The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation Chapter II, On Rent, p. 41
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, Doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard in 1916. Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley, ch. 1, Columbia University Press (1964).
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.
This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
— John F. Kennedy, Radio and television report to the American people on civil rights (June 11, 1963); reported in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, p. 468.
selected by Nanobug 2004 The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld
— used 16 June 2004, selected by Kalki
Your master is diminished by my loss, even if he does not admit it. Thank you, Spirit Monk, for finally letting me rest.
— Who: Death's Hand
— Note: The player hears this if he or she chooses to release his spirit immediately after freeing him from Sun Li's control.
