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• Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Giving, Joy, Eulogy

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). "Pensamiento positivo cada día: Una inspiración para cada día del año", Simon and Schuster

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• People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are. This capacity for caring can illuminate any relationship: marriage, family, friendships-even the ties of affection that often join humans and animals. Each of us is born with some of it, but whether we let it expand or diminish is largely up to us. To care, you have to surrender the armor of indifference. You have to be willing to act, to make the first move.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Moving, Caring, Animal

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• When there are enough people on the land to use it but not enough to husband it, then the wildness of the soil that we call fertility begins to diminish, and the soil itself begins to flee from us in water and wind.

  Wendell Berry

  Husband, Wind, Land

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• In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves on the hands seems like a nice thing to do. If you were being punched in the brain by a powerful man, wouldn't you rather he strap a pillow around his fist? But the glove doesn't do anything to diminish your brain damage.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Sports, Powerful, Nice

  "Una charla con el salvaje profesor de inglés". Entrevista con Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. 5 de marzo de 2015.

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• Diminish the influence of fate

  Darin Strauss

  Fate, Influence

  Darin Strauss (2001). “Chang and Eng”, p.222, Penguin

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• We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.

  Dorothy Day

  Goal, Effort, Impossible

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• Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

  Jayne Anne Phillips

  Towns, Hometown, Grows

  FaceBook post by Jayne Anne Phillips from Jul 07, 2012

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• What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.

  David Whyte

  Mind, Doe, Care

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• Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Crush, Money, Motivation

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• 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.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Average, Evil, Affliction

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• Cuando pintas, te olvidas de todo excepto de tu objeto. Cuando estás demasiado absorto en él, te pierdes en él. Y cuando te pierdes en él, tu ego disminuye. Y cuando el ego disminuye, aparece el amor infinito.

  Meher Baba

  Forget Everything, Ego, Too Much

  Meher Baba (1972). "La Respuesta: Conversaciones con Meher Baba"

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• There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Eye, Color

  da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

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• Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.

  Robert Muller

  Forgiveness, Self, Forgiving

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• L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. La ausencia disminuye las pasiones vulgares y aumenta las grandes, como el viento apaga las velas y enciende el fuego.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Fire, Wind

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• The work I do to let go of my suffering diminishes the suffering of the whole universe. When I have room for my own pain, I have room for the pain of others. Only then can I be transformed into joy. As I heal, the Earth heals.

  Christiane Northrup

  Letting Go, Pain, Healing

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• In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Lying

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• Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Self, Forever, Treasure

  Irvin D. Yalom (2010). “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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• I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Progress, Would Be

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• I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Reading, Growing, Rebirth

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• Aprendí a poner mi confianza en Dios y a verle como mi fuerza. Hace mucho tiempo me propuse ser una persona libre y no ceder ante el miedo. Siempre sentí que era mi derecho defenderme si podía. He aprendido a lo largo de los años que cuando uno está decidido, esto disminuye el miedo; saber lo que hay que hacer acaba con el miedo.

  Rosa Parks

  Long Ago, Years, Knowing

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• It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will ... make human life forever unkillable, removing it from the endangered species list, where it now stands on a fragile Earth overarmed with nuclear weapons. Second, the opening of virtually unlimited new land areas in space will reduce territorial pressures and therefore diminish warfare on Earth itself.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Space, Self, Land

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• Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.

  André Maurois

  Adventure, Soul, Age

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• Crea toda la felicidad que seas capaz de crear: elimina toda la miseria que seas capaz de eliminar. Cada día te permitirá añadir algo al placer de los demás, o disminuir algo de sus penas. Y por cada grano de gozo que siembres en el seno de otro, encontrarás una cosecha en tu propio seno; mientras que cada pena que arranques de los pensamientos y sentimientos de un semejante, será reemplazada por una hermosa paz y alegría en el santuario de tu alma.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Hermoso, Dolor, Alegría

  "¿Te hará feliz este hombre?", por Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. 24 de junio de 2008.

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• In diminishing the role of the worker's body in the labor process, industrial technology has also tended to diminish the importance of the worker. In creating jobs that require less human effort, industrial technology has also been used to create jobs that require less human talent. In creating jobs that demand less of the body, industrial production has also tended to create jobs that give less to the body, in terms of opportunities to accrue knowledge on the production process.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Jobs, Opportunity, Technology

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• La trata [de esclavos]... es la violación más escandalosa de la ley de la naturaleza, tiene una tendencia directa a disminuir... la libertad, y convierte en tiranos a todos los que comercian con ella, desde el director de una compañía africana hasta el pequeño comerciante [vendedor ambulante].... Es una verdad evidente que aquellos que cada día intercambian la libertad de otros hombres pronto se preocuparán poco por la suya propia.

  James Otis

  Hombres, Ley, Tiranos

  "Argumento contra las órdenes de asistencia". "Argumento contra los mandatos de asistencia", por James Otis Jr., 1761.

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