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But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.
The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.
The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.
You start comparing people, and ultimately, somebody feels diminished.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.
I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.
Subsidies and bailouts cannot compensate for uncertain or permanently diminished market access.
Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.
Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.
'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.
My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I'm not interested in being unhappy.
I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.
Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas.
The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.
A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.
Someone said I have had my popularity diminished by getting into the controversy of national education. Perhaps they are right.
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
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.
The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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.
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.
Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.
We are becoming a society where traditional values and free speech are being diminished and the religious are viewed as having a backward mentality.
Sisters, we as women are not diminished by priesthood power - we are magnified by it. I know this is true, for I have experienced it again and again.
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.
Democrat women lead the way in showing other women how to be stepped on and diminished by men. That's what they do, for a payoff somewhere down the line.
Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.
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.
When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.
We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.
Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.
Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.
To Armstrong, constantly speaking about 'Apollo 11' only diminished the magic. That's why he worked overtime to avoid notice, living a quiet life in Indian Hill, Ohio.
Even though I struggle with severe diminished brain function, I take 100 percent responsibility for every word that comes out of my mouth and gladly admit to my mistakes.
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.
Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.
Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.
When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an impact on public and private prisons alike.
The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.
The consequences of overestimating a company and your ability to analyse it are greatly diminished when you're paying a lot less for it than your analysis shows it is worth.
My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.
There is no lack of profitability or investment among these telecommunications companies. There is nothing that an open-internet order did to them that diminished their success.
By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.