“So it is that some things are increased by being diminished, and others are diminished by being increased.”

“Thus the sum of things is ever being renewed, and mortals live dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.”

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”

“Absense diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.”

“Humans do not have enough mental capacity to do all the things that we think we can do. As attentional load increases, attentional capacity gradually diminishes.”

“The population explosion is the primary force behind the remaining six groups of critical global events [diminishing land resources, diminishing water resources, the destruction of the atmosphere, the approaching energy crisis, social decline, and conflicts/increasing killing power].”