Steve Zahn

I've never had the luxury - or the nightmare - of having something just blow up and be this huge success and then have everything thrown at you. Being 'the best friend' lessens the responsibility, 'cause I can still go do another movie after something that doesn't do well.

American Actor

William Falconer

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

Scottish Poet

Lena Dunham

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

American Actress

Stephen J. Dubner

Cows and other ruminants are worse polluters than all of the transportation in the world, so all of us who try to cut down our carbon footprint by lessening our transportation would do far better by just consuming less beef.

American Journalist

Ezra Taft Benson

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

American Leader

Rose Kennedy

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

American Author

Samuel Richardson

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.

English Novelist

Meghan O'Rourke

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

American Poet

Robert Southey

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

English Poet

Joseph Priestley

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

English Scientist

Use 'lessen' when describing an intentional action to reduce something.

Action Oriented

'Lessen' is often used when talking about making negative effects not as severe.

Mitigate Effects

Use 'lessen' to imply a gradual reduction over time, rather than immediate.

Progressive Change

'Lessen' indicates a natural decrease without direct intervention.

Natural Process

It may suggest a slow, barely noticeable decline in size or importance.

Subtle Decline

'Lessen' is a common choice when emotions or pain decrease in intensity.

Emotion Easing

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 will changing the way we do things wearing the green hat if you will our fans want to see it our staff want to see it we want to see it how could we be easier on the planet even inside a building how can we change the way we do things to lessen the impact it means that somebody cares because otherwise you know it's way

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 You’ve extended grace. You’ve extended grace to someone else. And I believe that when you remove malice from your heart, not only do you feel better, you look better. I think you lose your frown lines and your wrinkles lessen and your age spots disappear.

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 saying, why can't we all just get along? But hey, I don't really see any alternative, given the way I read the situation. There's going to have to be moral progress. There's going to have to be a lessening of the amount of hatred in the world,

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 which were far too few. Lars's life was brief, to be sure, mere weeks, but it was calm and comfortable. He went on hikes with his parents. The time that he spent in the pool with our aquatic therapist lessened the seizures he was experiencing

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 He said, "He who receives an idea from me receives instruction himself, without lessening mine. As he who lights his candle at mine receives light without darkening me." Or to put it slightly

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 is reassuring he's showing remarkably little fear of us and now I can see better from only a few metres away he's neither lessened probably only about five years old but