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Every discussion in a meeting has a diminishing curve of interest. The longer the discussion goes on, the fewer people will be interested in it. — Mark McCormack

Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. — Emile M. Cioran

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview. — Ben Harper

No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness. — Elihu Burritt

Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way. — Pope John Paul II

When we can get the incidence of HIV down enough to turn the trajectory of the pandemic, it will assume a momentum of its own in diminishing HIV. — Anthony Fauci

If anything, the spirit that drove him now was fiercer, but there was no denying the diminishing powers of his body. He — Donna Leon

Love is the exception to the law of diminishing returns. — Tommy Wallach

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns. — John Maurice Clark

If a God tends to reinforce the prejudices in a society instead of diminishing them from the society, then such God is worse than Cancer. — Abhijit Naskar

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance. — Aubrey De Grey

The Adlers were diminishing. They had begun to look like one of those families in which no one got to be very old. — Paul Auster

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act. — Walter Kirn

It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom? — R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no justice, and great harm, in diminishing the whole array of future opportunity to save a few people now from a regrettable fate. — Will Wilkinson

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

The pleasure of novelty is by its very nature more subject than any other to the laws of diminishing returns. — C.S. Lewis

In the notseeing and the hardknowing as though in a cave he seemed to see a diminishing row of suavely shaped urns in moonlight, blanched. — William Faulkner

Time is a diminishing factor — Sunday Adelaja

Jim Rohn's law of diminishing intent says that the longer you delay something, the less probability you have of actually doing it. — Michael Hyatt

ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula. It is more certain; and it's better style. To get the — Luke Trayser

Plateaus are a manifestation of the law of diminishing returns, and when we reach one it simply means that it is time to adjust our methods. — Chris Matakas

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything. — Taki Theodoracopulos

I am illuminated within by a diminishing light. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things. — Anne-Marie Duff

In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did? — Mitch Albom

Many Buddhist temple priests regard their parishioners as possessions and fear their departure as a diminishing of assets. — Kentetsu Takamori

There's less and less for people to talk to when they talk to me. I hope diminishing existence isn't contagious. — Don DeLillo

The U.S. should be equally responsible for diminishing the cocaine market within the United States as it is in fighting the drug elsewhere. — Evo Morales

Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman

I am of opinion that a central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Your race is your diminishing life — Sunday Adelaja

It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his. — Samuel Laman Blanchard

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise. — George McGovern

Mother is fading for him, her face receding into shadows, her memory diminishing with each passing day, leaking like sand from a fist. — Khaled Hosseini

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing ... — Andre Gide

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. — John Ruskin

The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The steel suddenly touched her heart. Ah, jealousy, it was jealousy, the cold hand mashing her slowly, squeezing her, diminishing her soul. — Clarice Lispector

Idolatry is always subject to the law of diminishing returns. — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Diminishing returns is the outcome of restriction — Sunday Adelaja

If you're running on fumes, you get to a point of diminishing results. Get some rest. — Chuck Pagano

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own. — James A. Baldwin

When maintaining a relationship means diminishing your self, it's time to walk. — Dov Davidoff

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in. — Thomas Keller

Any concerns that Romney will adopt McCain's milquetoast campaign model are quickly diminishing. — David Limbaugh

Don't waste your time with life diminishing people, seek the company of life enhancing people. — Shelly Branch

The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough. — Thomas Sowell

A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself. — Hillel The Elder

The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not. — Aldo Leopold

...the track of the three camels and three pairs of sandals was like an arrow diminishing into infinity across the wavering sand. — Mike Bond

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. — Marya Mannes

Investments in greater email marketing sophistication often lead to even higher returns, not diminishing returns. — Chad White

The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect. — Robert McKee

These is nothing divine about deprecating your gifts and talents or diminishing their worth in any way. Shining is sharing an abundance with us all. — Tama Kieves

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture. — Oliver Goldsmith

Growing numbers of people, in their work, come into contact with a diminishing fragment of reality; as their world shrinks, so does their language. — Ivan Klima

There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well. — Jean Rostand

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

Love in its early stages rarely maintains a level, it always seems to be growing or diminishing. — Libbie Block

Each cent you apply toward diminishing your debt replenishes you. — Suze Orman

You get diminishing returns when you are restricted to your comfort zone — Sunday Adelaja

The line between what I really am, and what I am on reel, is slowly diminishing. — Shah Rukh Khan

sexuality is sacred, and using it for amusement brings diminishing returns. — Ravi Zacharias

Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at that — Jan Garavaglia

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable. — Dennis Weaver

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery — Karl Marx

Per capita availability of good, potable water is diminishing in all developed and developing countries. — Marq De Villiers

Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space. — Natascha McElhone

In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire. — Isaac D'Israeli