Attenuates Quotes

#1. The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion.

David Foster Wallace

#2. Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

Eugene Ionesco

#3. The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

Arthur C. Brooks

#4. i don't like material things i like the feeling they bring

Anonyumus

#5. There were the meaningless greetings the humans called "formalities": insincere inquiries into the state of health, nebulous benedictions and hopes for past well-being; all compensations for the lack of human Mediators.

Larry Niven

#6. Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.

Grover Norquist

#7. I know it's very 'old media' of me to admit this, but I am often unnerved by the lack of civility on the Web.

Willow Bay

#8. The world is vast and meant for wandering.

Nick Burd