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• Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Brain, World

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

  Frank Pittman

  Strong, Men, Insecurity

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• As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created.

  Ian Gardner

  Space, Mind, Flow

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• Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.

  Francis Chan

  Humility, Pride, Sometimes

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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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• The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Suicide, Dream, America

  Dinesh D'Souza (2014). “America: Imagine a World without Her”, p.6, Regnery Publishing

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• Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The ancients put that thought in the form of a prayer. They said, “From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth, from the laziness that is content with half truth, from the arrogance that thinks it has all truth – O God of truth, deliver us.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Prayer, Thinking, Zest

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• I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know.

  Tori Amos

  Want, Call Me, Knows

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• That is why the Aethenian law makers so decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. Confident that with your help, man will be what he was born to be, free and independent.

  John F. Kennedy

  Independent, Men, Law

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• The truth is few people “think” big and even fewer “play” big. Why? Because “big” often means big responsibilitie s, big hassles and big problems. They look at that “bigness” and shrink. They’re smaller than their problems. They back away from challenges. Ironically, they back themselves into the biggest problem of all ... being broke, or close to it.

  T. Harv Eker

  Mean, Thinking, Play

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Feb 03, 2014

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• Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.

  Dierks Bentley

  Inspirational, Country, Bucks

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• Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.

  Thomas Merton

  Heart, Capacity To Love, Giving

  Thomas Merton (2010). “Seasons of Celebration”, p.103, Macmillan

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• Don't shrink to meet the expectations of others, grow to become the person you want to be.

  Kris Carr

  Expectations, Want, Grows

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• I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead.

  Henry George

  May, Conclusion, Propose

  Henry George (2005). “Progress and Poverty”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Important, Principles, Details

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth - but neither shall we shrink from that risk any time it must be faced.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Risk, Victory

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

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• Other anatomical changes associated with long-duration space flight are definitely negative: the immune system weakens, the heart shrinks because it doesn't have to strain against gravity, eyesight tends to degrade, sometimes markedly (no one's exactly sure why yet). The spine lengthens as the little sacs of fluid between the vertebrae expand, and bone mass decreases as the body sheds calcium. Without gravity, we don't need muscle and bone mass to support our own weight, which is what makes life in space so much fun but also so inherently bad for the human body, long-term.

  Chris Hadfield

  Fun, Heart, Space Flight

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by subtle spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Spiritual, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.238, Penguin

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• ...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

  William Hazlitt

  Greatness, Dignity

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1107, Delphi Classics

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• We may faint and we may sink
  Feel the pain and near the brink
  But the dark begins to shrink
  When you find the one who knows

  Jeremy Camp

  Pain, Dark, May

  Song: He Knows, Album: I Will Follow, 2015

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• Each day, life will send you little windows of opportunity. Your destiny will ultimately be defined by how you respond to these windows of opportunity. Shrink from them and your life will be small, feel the fear and run to them anyway, and you life will be big. Life's just too short to play little.

  Robin Sharma

  Running, Fear, Opportunity

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• The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The spirit that shrinks from enquiry as sinful and deems a state of doubt a state of guilt, is the most enduring disease that can afflict the mind of man. Not till the education of Europe passed from the monasteries to the universities, not till Mohammedan science, and classical free thought, and industrial independence broke the sceptre of the Church, did the intellectual revival of Europe begin.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Men, Europe, Catholic

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• Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

  Plato

  Plato, May, Injustice

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.227, Xist Publishing

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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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• 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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