Quotes with diminution

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• Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

  Andrew Jackson
  American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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• My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

  Statement before House Judiciary Committee considering impeachment of Richard Nixon, 25 July 1974

  Barbara Jordan
  American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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• The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality

  Carl Gustav Jung
  Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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• The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

  Benjamin Jowett
  British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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• The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

  Margaret Oliphant
  British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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• The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• constitution
• achievements
• personality
• everlasting
• concerning
• patriotic

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