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• Great talents, by the rust of long disuse,
  Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

  Ovid

  Long, Rust, Talent

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• We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have run out on our mothers and on us. We seem willing to forgive fathers for loving too little even as we still shrink in terror from mothers who love too much.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Running, Father

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• So when that Angel of the darker Drink, at last shall find you by the river-brink,
  And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul forth to your Lips to quaff-you shall not shrink.

  Omar Khayyam

  Angel, Rivers, Offering

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.164, University of Virginia Press

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• You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.

  Meg Whitman

  Pain, Sunset, Government

  ABC News Interview, abcnews.go.com. November 17, 2009.

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• The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand is too coarse the mortar will be short or brittle . . . If the sand is too fine the cement will shrink and crack after it has been used.

  Canvass White

  Engineering, Quality, Cracks

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• Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life?

  Rick Warren

  Humble, Self, Purpose

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• We are not here just to survive and live long .... We are here to live and know life in it's multi-dimensions, to know life in its richness, in all it's variety. And when a man lives multi-dimensionally, explores all possibilities available, never shrinks back from a challenge, goes, rushes to it, welcomes it, rises to the occasion then life becomes a flame, life blooms.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Men, Flames

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• Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine; While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beautiful, Fall, Health

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.420

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• I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Innovation, Prejudice, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.210, Princeton University Press

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• Some girl asked me for an autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me. I said she should see a shrink. Then she started crying and I started laughing.

  Nikki Sixx

  Girl, Laughing, Rock N Roll

  Nikki Sixx (2008). “The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

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• When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore wrong. We feel that even weak and erring Man would shrink from such an act. And we cannot conceive of God as acting on a lower standard of right and wrong.

  Lewis Carroll

  Men, Intuition, Acting

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• However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Believe, Men, Sea

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• Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II...Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Heart, People

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.218, Mango Media Inc.

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• As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

  Casey Neistat

  Guiding Principles, Risk, Assuming

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• Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.235

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• Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking. I'd be even more thrilled if what was shrinking affected my dress size, but you can't have everything.

  Erma Bombeck

  Cells, Brain, May

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• I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Remembrance, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1329, Delphi Classics

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• Sports is about balls and about heart and you don't find too many champions in any sport in the world without heart or balls. He might have them, but against Nadal they shrink to a very small size and it's not once, it's every time.

  Mats Wilander

  Sports, Heart, Champion

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• Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can;but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Government, Giving, Tone

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.346, Oxford University Press

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• The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Judging, Intellectual, Excellence

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• A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Liars, Lying, Men

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• Shrink, shrink variation, to reduce the loss.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Loss, Variation, Management

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• Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions.

  Josiah Bartlett

  Lying, Heart, Mean

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• Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping into ""psycho-speak," however. Kids pick up instantly your attempt at being a pseudo-shrink. Most resent it and are apt to tune out anything that sounds like you're reading a script from the latest child-psychology text.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Children, Reading, Kids

  Marge M. Kennedy (1994). “The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

  Shirley Temple

  Memories, Past, Nostalgia

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