#dim

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. ↗

— Lee Atwater

#country #deadly #decay #dime #eye

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#either #enterprises #fortune #given #great

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#britain #catastrophically #diminished #france #germany

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change. ↗

— William Banting

#change #clothing #conceivable #convincing #diminished

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#acting #certain #changed #had #i

We're quite into graphics that are simultaneously two- and three-dimensional. But I can't really elaborate any further because it's not something - we haven't really perfected it. ↗

— Sean Booth

#because #elaborate #further #graphics #haven

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#job #more #powerful #preparation #rudimentary

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

— Vince Cable

#generally #perhaps #recent #worship #years

The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#consumer #diminishing #first #increase #increasing

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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