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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The line between what I really am, and what I am on reel, is slowly diminishing. ↗

— Shahrukh Khan

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I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. ↗

— William Shenstone

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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. ↗

— William Shenstone

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Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ↗

— John Spratt

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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

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