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The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

Quote by Charles Babbage about concentration, difficulties, science, country

The intention of the reef is to reduce the surface of the sail in proportion to the increase of the wind; for which reason there are several reefs parallel to each other in the superior sails, whereby they may be still further diminished, in order...

Quote by William Falconer about intention, order, reason

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about faith, man

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.

Quote by Rosa Parks about teaching, fear, mind

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about poetry, purpose, force, police, moral, poets

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about opinion, character, knowledge