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diminish
«Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger»
Author: Allen Klein
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diminish
«Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.»
«Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
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afflict, aspire, diminish, human species, prolong, routes, well-being
«An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
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bonds, conquest, diminish, educational, intervene, intervening, social activity, that is to say, The Social, training
«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.»
«And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.»
«In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying, / Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD's house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD's house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word: / If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.»
«Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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arithmetically, diminish, propose, proposing, sufferings, unjustly
«A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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cell, darkness, diminish, glory, glorying, god, him, His, lunatic, no more, out, put, put out, put over, put through, put under, Refusing, scribble, scribbled, scribbles, scribbling, sun, suns, The Cell, The Sun, The Word, walled, walls, wall in, wall up, word, worship, worshipping
«In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Humanity,
World
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antechamber, diminish, division, in darkness, plainly