#dim

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#declare #diminishing #england #establishments #falls

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#appalled #dimension #i #i do #political

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired. ↗

— Tobe Hooper

#get #had #happens #hard #i

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. ↗

— John Donne

#any #because #bell #death #diminishes

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#becoming #been #citizen #consequently #diminished

In looking at our our individual classroom pedagogies and our isolated artistic endeavors, we must broaden the frame of analysis to consider historical, contextual and institutional assumptions. This means a constant awareness of how the micro-practices of interpersonal dialogue and embodied ways of knowing each other can provide an impetus fro structural change. ↗

— Ann Elizabeth Armstrong

#dialogue #embodiment #feminism #pedagogy #performance

Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#amp #back #diminished #few #groups

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely. ↗

— Charlton Heston

#american experience #art #art form #completely #diminish

I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#actually #am #another #before #better

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#box #different #dime #dozen #matters