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Letter "D" » detract
«Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.»
«Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue»
Author: Titus Livy | About: Envy | Keywords: detract, detracting, detracts
«All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.»
«The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words»
«Today, I will know the unadulterated joy of giving with no strings. I acknowledge that sometimes I hope for praise or reciprocation when I give ... and that that detracts from the joy of giving. Today, the giving will be my joy. I know that I will sow what I reap, but I will not sow for the purpose of reaping. I will sow for the joy of sowing.»
«But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.»
«Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.»
«In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom»
«People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.»

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