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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

Topics: Asked Backwards Brain Cat Did Diminished Guess How How Many People Know Little Many Me People Possessed Run Show Stray Strut Tell Them Wired You

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Writing might be unalloyed joy, were it not for the fact that power is always shadowed by responsibility. Thankfully, the absolute power that writers have is not weighted down with absolute responsibility. It can neither be suppressed nor diminished, except by choice.

~Brian Stableford

Topics: Absolute Absolute Power Always Choice Diminished Down Except Fact Joy Might Neither Nor Power Responsibility Suppressed Thankfully Were Writers Writing

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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Diminished Force He His Moral Objective Poet Poetic Pursued

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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

Topics: According Bodies Change Constancy Diminished Diversity Each Increased Lost Matter Motion Moved Quantity Received Relations Uniformity Velocity

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It's not good enough to believe women matter if they only matter in the U.K. They have to matter everywhere. As long as there's an idea that women don't matter in the world, then all women are diminished.

~Cherie Blair

Topics: All Women Believe Diminished Enough Everywhere Good Idea Long Matter Not Good Enough Only Then Women Women Are World

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I was a young, new, hot star, and I had this unbelievable arrogance. As time went on, the strident narcissism and arrogance slowly diminished. But I was definitely there. I'm older now. And a big crybaby.

~Chevy Chase

Topics: Arrogance Big Definitely Diminished Had Hot Narcissism New Now Older Slowly Star Time Unbelievable Young

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Some men feel threatened by the idea of feminism. This comes, I think, from the insecurity triggered by how boys are brought up, how their sense of self-worth is diminished if they are not 'naturally' in charge as men.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Boy Brought Charge Diminished Feel Feminism How Idea Insecurity Men Naturally Self-Worth Sense Some Some Men Think Threatened Up I Think

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Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: Another Being Citizen Consistently Diminished Embrace Eyes Feel Felt Having Heard Many Means More Often One Time Others Our Outsider Schools Second-Class Some Talents Time Treated Unfortunately Voice Way

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Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas.

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: Agendas Athletics Carries Diminished Manipulated Own People Set Those Truths

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When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an impact on public and private prisons alike.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Ability Alike Diminished Engage Impact Lobbying Political Power Prisons Private Public Too

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