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There are two ways of being happy — we may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do, the result is the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means.

Happy Want Same Mean
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If you are active and prosperous, or young, or in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are wise, you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society.

Active Young Want Poor
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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.

Children Code Diminished Exchange
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Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Away Budget Cancer Citizen
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.

Diminish Far Liberties Our
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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.

Cell Darkness Diminish Glory
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I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us.

Business Diminish Ever Greater
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By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?

Conformity Culture Empathy Ethics
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The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

Chances Concern Considered Diminished
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If given an opportunity and you choose to take it, especially in times where opportunities are heavily diminished, give it your best, be accountable for your choices, and be grateful. With so many suffering, complaining thru success may not be the best choice.

Given Opportunity Best Choice
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I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

Big Born Celebrity Could
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It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Criminal Steal Darling Fortune
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Russia's economy is both cursed and blessed by oil. When the oil price goes up, there is a tremendous 'wealth effect' spilling over into all corners of the economy, but this diminishes the drive to develop other industries to diversify away from overreliance on oil.

Away Blessed Both Corners
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With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.
Animals Man Alertness Diminishes
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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.

About Bite Children Denying
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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.

Achieving Allow Before Believe
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Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

Better Better Way Bulgaria Chances
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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Away Diminishes Does Done
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I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

Back down Fear The ghost Diminishes people
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

Fear not Precautions Protective contrivances
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I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

Good Mankind Attainment Every man
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The promise of independence is yet to be fully realized. This however does not diminish the value of freedom and the eternal significance of the sacrifice of those who suffered to make us free.

Independence Fully realize Promise Freedom
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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

When everything Physical Mental Seems diminish
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Whenever people say 'women's soccer,' I want to correct them to say 'soccer.' Every girl has had their sport diminished because they're girls.

People say Women's soccer Correct them Every girl
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Appreciating other people’s genuine work will not diminish yours.

Appreciating Other people's Genuine work Diminish yours
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Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.

Only love Divided endlessly Not diminish
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

Nothing Accept Myself Against me
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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.

Inner resources Can live In isolation Long period
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We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.
Always aims The impossible We lower Our goal
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

Words Things Kingdoms Diminish
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Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains

Happiness Create Pleasure Pains
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In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.

World Mystery Unknown Persists
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Landlords are still in denial. Increasing rents when people are loosing jobs and earning power is diminishing amid rising cost of food.

Landlords In denial Increasing rent Loosing jobs
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Any man's death diminishes me, for I am involved with mankind

Man's Death Diminishes Mankind
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Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Recognizing Power Diminish Own
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Success, however, does nothing to diminish the knowledge that failure stalks everything you do.

Success Knowledge Failure
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