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• I pride myself on how little space I take up. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky.

  Julie Gregory

  Fall, Pride, Blue

  Julie Gregory (2003). “Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood”, Bantam

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• Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Events, Details, Stories

  A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.240, Hachette UK

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• When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.

  Matthew Scully

  Heart, Sight, Gone

  Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.320, Souvenir Press

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• For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Dream, Adventure

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• Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Vegetarianism, People, Meat

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• It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit. . . . No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest?

  Francois Fenelon

  Love, Believe, Sacrifice

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• Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink.

  Marv Harshman

  Sports, Tired, Guy

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• Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players

  Jock Stein

  Player, Jersey, Fit

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• Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

  Martin Feldstein

  Combination, Payment, Interest

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• It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

  Joseph Addison

  Plato, Fall, Men

  'Cato' (1713) act 5, sc. 1, l. 1

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• You can't shrink your way to greatness!

  Seth Godin

  Greatness, Way

  Seth Godin (2012). “Survival Is Not Enough: Shift Happens”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.

  George Eliot

  Fate, Arrows, Breasts

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.438

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• Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ideas, Ends, Sensations

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.70, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Hair, Body, Littles

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.

  Jerry Brown

  America, Government, Soul

  "As Mayor of Oakland, Jerry Brown Woos Business and Trumpets Order". www.wsj.com. August 10, 1999.

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• They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Two, Hatred

  James Russell Lowell (1849). “Poems”, p.206

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• When tempted, the shortest and surest way is to act like a little child at the breast; when we show it a frightful monster, it shrinks back and buries its face in its mother's bosom, that it may no longer behold it.

  Francois Fenelon

  Mother, Children, Temptation

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Female, Body

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.79, Vintage

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• Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can also put our mind to sleep. We must not forget that in the past the inability to transport immediate experience and to convey it to others made the use of language necessary and thus compelled the human mind to develop concepts. For in order to describe things one must draw the general from the specific; one must select, compare, think. When communication can be achieved by pointing with the finger, however, the mouth grows silent, the writing hand stops, and the mind shrinks.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Communication, Sleep, Writing

  Rudolf Arnheim (1957). “Film as Art”, p.195, Univ of California Press

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• We notice as the Bible goes on, the area of scared space shrinks.

  Northrop Frye

  Space, Goes On, Scared

  "The Great Code: The Bible and Literature". Book by Northrop Frye, 1981.

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• When the Democrats are attacked for [inciting class warfare] they shrink back. They don't say what obviously should be said, "Yes, there is class warfare. There has always been class warfare in this country." The reason the Democrats shrink back is because the Democrats and the Republicans are on the same side of the class war. They have slightly different takes. The Democrats are part of the upper class that is more willing to make concessions to the lower class in order to maintain their power.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, War, Order

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• We may rightly shrink from saying that any given individual is certainly so unfaithful to light and grace as to incur the eternal loss of God, we do know that many are so. God knows who they are.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Loss, Light, Grace

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• The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.

  Ogden Nash

  Sky, Lovely, Ink

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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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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• 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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