An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
Quotes about lessens (16 Quotes)
A bank also seems absent from lists of possible buyers, which makes an investment-grade rating harder to achieve and lessens the need for a sale.
Ideally, with Michael probably back, it lessens the burden on Andrew and can free him up to play the exciting cricket he plays.
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers. Let social busybodies and professional 'public morals experts' in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.
The city was looking at other places besides schools -- spots where children are likely to be present. You can't make a law that lessens the effect of a state law, but you can make it more strict.
Acquaintance lessens fame.
... the enemy of righteousness also works in little steps, so small that they are hard to notice if you are thinking only about yourself and how great you are. Just as truth is given to us line upon line and the light brightens slowly as we obey, even so, as we disobey our testimony of truth lessens almost imperceptibly, little by little, and darkness descends so slowly that the proud may easily deny that anything is changing.
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
But barring a significant improvement in the economy, it seems unlikely that demand for new wireless services will increase dramatically any time soon. That further lessens the need to spend on more licenses. There is still too much supply out there and not enough demand, ... You need companies to exit the business to pull back on the supply. That will happen either willfully or through bankruptcy.
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination if false, that it lessens.
But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.