Name: Jackson Katz: Violence...
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Description: And if we can get to the place where men who act out in sexist ways will lose status, young men and boys who act out in sexist and harassing ways towards girls and women, as well as towards other boys and men, will lose status as a result of it, guess what? We'll see a radical diminution of the abuse.

Leonardo da Vinci

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

Italian Artist

Robert Walpole

If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.

British Statesman

Groucho Marx

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.

American Comedian

David Ricardo

If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.

British Economist

Andrew Jackson

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.

American President

Victor Hugo

Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.

French Author

William Watson

Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect.

English Poet

Bainbridge Colby

I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.

American Public Servant

Benjamin Jowett

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

English Theologian

Herbert Spencer

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

English Philosopher

Often implies a negative effect of becoming smaller or weaker.

Contextual Nuance

Can refer to purposeful reduction, sometimes positive.

Not Always Bad

Useful for describing visual reduction in size or volume.

Visual Imagery

In law, associated with rights, value, or property.

Legal Specificity

Often used regarding unintended loss or harm in legal context.

Negative Connotation

Refers to a technique in music, not just volume reduction.

Musical Technique

Less common and more technical; used by musicians or critics.

Sophisticated Term

 And if we can get to the place where men who act out in sexist ways will lose status, young men and boys who act out in sexist and harassing ways towards girls and women, as well as towards other boys and men, will lose status as a result of it, guess what? We'll see a radical diminution of the abuse.

Jackson Katz: Violence...

 nighttime, all the windows are open, every light is on. And one person in that building goes to the window and lowers the blinds by about a centimeter. That's the precision that's required to see this tiny diminution of light caused by an Earth.

Diminution

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