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«The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution -- this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.»
Author: Margaret Oliphant | Keywords: concerning, depths, diminution, everlasting
«Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.»
Author: Emile M. Cioran | Keywords: accompanied, concession, concessions, diminution
«We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.»
Author: Herbert Spencer (Philosopher) | About: Freedom | Keywords: diminution
«The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light transfers mass. With radium there should be a noticeable diminution of mass. The idea»
Author: Albert Einstein (Physicist) | Keywords: basic principle, contained, diminution, noticeable, radium, transfers
«The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: diminution, exactly, gauge, gauged, gauging, growth, growths, ill-tempered, ill, ill temper, temper, tempering, wisdom
«Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: commits, constitutes, deceives, diminution, fraud, injury, not guilty
«A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: diminution
«Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehood which interests dictates and credulity encourages»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: credulity, diminution, jointly
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