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An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
Clara Barton
Happiness
Selfish
Suffering
Evil
Sum
Adding
Recognition
Diminishing
Must
Some
Institution
Reform
Human
Movement
Human Suffering
Originate
When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.
Deepak Chopra
Fight
Become
Conserve
Resource
Resources
Possession
Diminishing
Left
Scrap
Human
Human Beings
Beings
Suddenly
Cooperate
Last
Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.
Anne-Marie Duff
Success
Control
Nothing
Diminishing
More
Than
Trying
Hold
Things
As much as with increased exploration new gas reserves can be found, what must be obvious to all is that our oil and gas reserves are not renewable and they are diminishing, and to protect the generations to come, we must engage in nothing short of a radical shift in the diversification of the economy.
Anthony Carmona
Nothing
Radical
Increased
Our
Diminishing
Must
Diversification
Generations
New
Come
Economy
Protect
Obvious
Renewable
Shift
Short
Oil
Much
Engage
Exploration
Reserves
Found
Gas
Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.
Aubrey de Grey
Science
Communication
Big
Wikipedia
Sign
Diminishing
Importance
Help
Shows
Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.
Brian Ferneyhough
Law
Result
Other
Further
Diminishing
Composers
Taken
Particular
Returns
Than
Begun
Much
Meantime
Technique
Apply
I try, in the present, to not exalt the past because I think that's such a way of diminishing the present. And it's hard to live like that.
Carrie Brownstein
Try
Past
Live
Think
Way
Diminishing
Exalt
Like
Because
Hard
Such A Way
Present
We should put behind us the era of diminishing trust in public institutions and weakened confidence in our country's public leaders.
Cyril Ramaphosa
Confidence
Trust
Country
Our
Diminishing
Weakened
Put
Leaders
Institutions
Era
Behind
Public
Us
Should
Any concerns that Romney will adopt McCain's milquetoast campaign model are quickly diminishing.
David Limbaugh
Will
Diminishing
Adopt
Concerns
Campaign
Quickly
Model
Any
McCain
Romney
If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.
Dennis Weaver
War
Nation
Own
Energy
Every
Worldwide
Resources
Earth
Diminishing
Would
Threat
Hydrogen
Could
Had
Support
Over
Economy
Source
Just
Energy Source
Create
Evaporate
Every Nation
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
Dennis Weaver
War
Valuable
Resources
Extremely
Those
Diminishing
Perceive
Over
Fought
Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve.
Douglas Rushkoff
Time
Beauty
Addict
Diminishing
Paralyzed
Seek
More
Botox
Attempt
Like
Returns
Passage
Very
Stop
Available
Less
Moment
Preserve
The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it.
Eli Roth
Time
You
Experience
Ride
Law
Negative
Will
Pure
First
Diminishing
Scary
Horror
Never
Returns
Always
Go
Watch
Second
If the economy can only provide a diminishing political dividend, Chinese leaders will encourage their people to feel pride and vigor in other ways.
Evan Osnos
People
Pride
Political
Will
Other
Ways
Diminishing
Only
Dividend
Leaders
Feel
Economy
Provide
Encourage
Chinese
Vigor
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
Felix Adler
Today
Church
Power
Diminishing
See
No-One
Fail
Communities
Large
Many
Large Numbers
Among
Numbers
I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.
George McGovern
Believe
Presidency
Diminishing
Promise
Seek
Longer
Accept
Because
American
Deeply
The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last.
Henry Charles Carey
Power
First
Living
Increase
Increasing
Intervene
Others
System
Diminishing
Object
Consumer
Between
Labour
Land
Persons
Producer
Product
Last
Number
Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.
Iyanla Vanzant
Father
Negative
Bite
Diminishing
About
Girlfriends
Talk
Denying
Children
Experiences
Your
Tongue
It is quite plausible that the process of increased fragmentation of production across borders is subject to 'diminishing returns' and has its natural limits.
Jerome Powell
Natural
Increased
Fragmentation
Diminishing
Borders
Returns
Limits
Subject
Quite
Process
Across
Production
Plausible
Large conventional power plants will continue to be built, but their significance for energy supply is diminishing.
Joe Kaeser
Plants
Will
Power
Energy
Diminishing
Significance
Supply
Power Plants
Built
Continue
Conventional
Energy Supply
Large
Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections.
John Lithgow
Life
Problem
Mistakes
Before
Whatever
Own
Sense
Increasing
Spent
Churchill
Diminishing
Solve
Faced
Only
Could
Had
He
Wrong
Maintaining
Disasters
Overcoming
Him
Course
His
Very
Often
Capabilities
Then
Much
Appalling
Who
Rejections
Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?
Joichi Ito
Democracy
Power
Our
Diminishing
Consolidation
Cash
Check
Policies
Traded
Continuing
Companies
Appears
Media
Now
The diminishing economic role of the United States in the global economy means that global political power will also become more dispersed. The world will become multipolar. By clumsily re-asserting a wish for U.S. dominance, Donald Trump is accelerating the opposite.
Joseph Stiglitz
World
Political
Political Power
Will
Power
Wish
Become
States
Diminishing
More
Economic
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Also
Accelerate
Opposite
Trump
Dominance
Role
Donald
Donald Trump
Means
United
United States
A lot of people are deeply dissatisfied by the diminishing control they have over their lives, because of the way our system of government is set up, to cater to the powerful, cater to the wealthy, cater to the corporations, and not to the individual American citizen.
Josh Fox
Government
People
Citizen
Control
Our
Way
Corporations
System
Diminishing
Wealthy
Individual
Powerful
Over
Cater
Because
Lot
Up
American
American Citizen
Lives
Deeply
Dissatisfied
Set
There are times when you are growing through experiences, but sometimes there is a point of diminishing returns in terms of growth.
Lewis Hamilton
You
Sometimes
Diminishing
Point
Through
Terms
Returns
Times
Experiences
Growing
Growth
Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children and grandchildren. We have run into the 'law of diminishing returns' in health care, where we are often doing more and more, with higher and higher technology, at more and more cost, for less and less benefit.
Richard Lamm
Health
Technology
Law
Care
Medicine
Benefit
Our
Diminishing
Run
Cost
More
More And More
Higher
Health Care
Returns
Doing
Modern
Often
Where
Bankrupt
Children
Grandchildren
Us
Bodies
Bargain
Aging
Less
Presented
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