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I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.
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Richard Cohen
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Journalist
Born:
Feb 6
,
1941
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The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
Leonardo da Vinci
Lie
Darkness
Light
Increased
Diminished
Detail
Shadow
Could
Between
Understood
Beginnings
Infinitely
May
Ends
Form
Which
Forms
Bodies
Means
Display
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt Disney
Feelings
Live
Heritage
Preserved
Our
Diminished
Exchange
Freely
Ideals
Ideas
How
Children
Teach
Standards
Code
Things
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin
Great
Cake
Diminished
Easily
Empire
Like
Most
Edges
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
Insecurity
Men
Feminism
Sense
Think
Diminished
Charge
Threatened
Some
Some Men
Brought
Idea
Feel
Boy
How
Self-Worth
Up
Naturally
The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
George McGovern
Truth
War
Truth Is
World
Oppose
National
Our
Diminished
Weakened
Security
Because
Opposed
Iraq
Iraq War
National Security
Just
Conflicts
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Standing
Two
You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.
Lionel Messi
Success
You
Winner
Before
Believe
Every
Diminished
Allow
Sportsman
Improvement
Achieving
Cannot
Room
Your
Desire
I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.
Michelle Obama
People
Free
Seen
Nothing
Else
Rule
Intimidation
Diminished
Hopeful
Citizens
Vital
Entire
Potential
Voices
Leaders
Because
Stifle
How
Demonize
Offer
Often
Places
Dismiss
Less
Who
Groups
I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Time
You
Long
Isolation
Live
Think
Enough
Resources
Diminished
Long Periods
Feel
Periods
Then
Inner
Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.
Eduardo Galeano
World
Language
Plants
Diversity
Every
Sayings
Diminished
Beasts
Weeks
Loses
Dies
Human
Just
Two
Two Weeks
Abortions can be, and frequently are, traumatizing, as are other invasive surgeries performed to the sexual and internal organs. All or any of these 'violations' can cause loss of vitality, diminished capacity for erotic connection and pleasure, and other symptoms of trauma.
Peter A. Levine
Abortion
Cause
Other
Symptoms
Pleasure
Diminished
Sexual
Vitality
Performed
Frequently
Loss
Any
Capacity
Organs
Internal
Connection
Trauma
Violations
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