Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Organized, fear-based religion is the source of most of the problems in our society. If religion is culture-based, then these fears should dissipate and create real harmony in our society.

My spiritual high naturally dissipated. At some point you've got to come out of the clouds and live real life. Again, it's just like falling in love. The feeling of euphoria is only temporary.

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both in a sense absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience impair your health and dissipate your property.

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness the general mind must be strengthened by education.