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• Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Challenges

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Be All You Can Be: A Challenge to Stretch Your God-Given Potential”, p.40, David C Cook

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• The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.

  Michael Behe

  Data, Design, Flow

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• Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next two decades. And for good reason: when people come here to fulfill their dreams - to study, invent, and contribute to our culture - they make our country a more attractive place for businesses to locate and create jobs for everyone. So let's get immigration reform done this year.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Country, Jobs

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

  Rand Paul

  Government, Liberty, Way

  "Paul: GOP 'has grown stale and moss-covered'" by Emily Schultheis, www.politico.com. March 14, 2013.

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• The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

  Karl Marx

  Division Of Labor, Competition, Together

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.97, University of Chicago Press

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• I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

  Norman Mailer

  Inspiring, Thinking, Purpose

  Interview with Divina Infusino, American Way Magazine, June 15,1995.

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• We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Thinking, Ideas, Problem

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• Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love, Philosophical, Men

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• The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

  Samuel Johnson

  Home, Ambition, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.431

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• Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

  John Lennon

  Jesus, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Interview with Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, March 04, 1966.

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• Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.

  Chris Christie

  Mean, Government, Choices

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• The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Lonely, Loneliness

  "To My Daughters, With Love (To You on Your First Birthday)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

  James Broughton

  Artist, Unique, Self

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• His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.

  Anne Bronte

  Heart, Sunshine, Wind

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.48, Diversion Books

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• Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.

  Daniel Goleman

  Self, Attention, Digital

  "Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence". Book by Daniel Goleman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2013.

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• Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making the inexplicable safe for the masses, the possibilities for real illusion-piercing insight becomes reduced. One might say that they are only available to those who dare to ride the breaking crest of direct life-altering experience.

  Stephen K. Hayes

  Real, Piercings, Safe

  Stephen K. Hayes (1986). “Ninja Realms of Power: Spiritual Roots and Traditions of the Shadow Warrior”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

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• I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.

  Mike Pence

  Hero, Grateful, Heart

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

  Marcel Proust

  Passion, Inspire, Each Day

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• Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

  Jim Morrison

  Inspirational, Positive, Freedom

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• 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Being Strong, Perseverance

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.44, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

  George Saunders

  Age, Trying, Failing

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• A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Leadership, Men, Able

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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• The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

  Hugh Sidey

  Problem, Easy, Stumps

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• The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.

  Mitt Romney

  Confidence, Wall, Evil

  "Never Retreat, Never Apologize" by David Weigel, www.slate.com. July 25, 2012.

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