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lessening
«Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.»
«In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations»
«Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.»
Author: Henry George
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boat, compare, crew, crews, depend upon, devoted, directions, exertion, expenditure, in-fighting, lessened, lessening, lessens, propel, propelled, propelling, propels, pulling, The crew
«He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me»
«REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience. In a republic, the foundation of public order is the ever lessening habit of submission inherited from ancestors who, being truly governed, submitted because they had to. There are as many kinds of republics as there are graduations between the despotism whence they came and the anarchy whither they lead.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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anarchy, despotism, enforce, governing, graduations, inherited, lessening, optional, republic, submission, The Anarchy, whence, whither
«Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music»
«Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometric progression as they rise»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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geometric, geometric progression, inequalities, inequality, lessening, portions, progression, silently, taxation
«My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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War
| Keywords:
abolition, disposition, improving, lessen, lessened, lessening, lessens, morals, practicable, views
«One pain lessened by another's anguish»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
anguish, lessened, lessening, lessens