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

~Bernard Berenson

Topics: Appreciation Beauty Diminish Else Everything Everything Else Increase Mental Physical Seems

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With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.

~Brian Eno

Topics: About Because Being Changed Composers Could Diminish Everything Felt Furniture Idea Importance Many Meant Music Part Place Prospect Recording Reluctant Seemed Start Them Think Time

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After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: After Before Born Change Come Diminish Essential Essential Part Fear Felt Fortune Going Good Good Fortune Greatest Had Like Lost Lot Me Myself Part People Reaction Run Some Success Themselves

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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.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Cell Darkness Diminish Glory God Him His Lunatic Man More Out Put Refusing Scribbling Sun Than Walls Word Worship

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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

~Carly Fiorina

Topics: About Above Angry Big Challenge Diminish Disgrace Happen Hidden How Ideas Injustices Lifetime May Other People Places Rise Rise Above Should Small Spend Stage Tests Try Ways Who World World Stage You

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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

~Carly Fiorina

Topics: Cannot Determine Diminish Fears Ideas Make Only People Prejudices Small Them Think Worth You Your

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I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

~Carrie Fisher

Topics: Big Born Celebrity Could Diminish Only I Was Born

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I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.

~Carrie Fisher

Topics: Back Celebrity Conscious Diminish Down Fame Getting Going More Mountain Parents Watched

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Because the Internet is a medium, it doesn't care whether it transmits love or hate. It is what we build and who we are that make it what it is. We can build things that diminish our humanity or build things that bring us to human flourishing.

~Caterina Fake

Topics: Because Bring Build Care Diminish Flourishing Hate Human Humanity Internet Love Make Medium Our Things Us Whether Who

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To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling.

~Cesare Beccaria

Topics: Between Constant Diminish Extent Feeling Gentle Human Increases Made Maintain Must Object Punishment Relation Sensibility Severity Social Spirits State Wishes

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