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Source: Webster's dictionaryThe most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. James Whitcomb Riley
It was the college conservatives who had almost succeeded in electing John Smith to the Presidency of the United States during the last election. The fact that Smith had been dead for twenty years had not dampened their ardor; quite the contrary, many considered this the candidate's best quality. Robert Sheckley
Because we have not understood the brain's ability to transform pain and disequilibrium, we have dampened it with tranquilizers or distracted it with whatever was at hand. Marilyn Ferguson
And the COVID-19 crisis has also dampened Japanese enthusiasm for Moonee Valley's $5 million showpiece. Source: Internet
Although he was a military surgeon, he could not get used to the struggles of patients, and dampened his pain by writing poems. Source: Internet
Although its FPU performance fit scientific users quite well, its limited integer performance and high cost dampened appeal for most users, and the R8000 was in the marketplace for only a year and remains fairly rare. Source: Internet