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If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes. ↗

— David Ricardo

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Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers. ↗

— Cokie Roberts

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Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone. ↗

— John Irving

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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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By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future. ↗

— Paul Ryan

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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did. ↗

— Brian Setzer

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

— William Shenstone

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