Shrinks Quotes

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The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation and… — Henry Hazlitt
You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point of ecstasy, you… — Neville Goddard
See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second… — Alexander Pope
Theres something incredible about putting a helmet on just before a game; its a feeling only a football player knows. Your vision narrows, and the… — Carl Deuker
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 LappÃ©
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
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… — Joseph Addison
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished! To endure, and go calmly… — Joanna Baillie
Don't ever let anyone tell you that something is too competitive. Once you subtract the people who don't work very hard, or the people who… — Maggie Mason
All the political, social, and economic improvements, all the technical progress cannot have any regenerating significance, so long as our inner life remains as it… — Nikos Kazantzakis
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
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself. — William Hazlitt
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… — Chris Hadfield
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… — Alfred North Whitehead
A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers. — Neel Burton
As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative. — Brigid Schulte
If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way… — Suzy Kassem
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… — William Butler Yeats
As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created. — Ian Gardner
Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special… — Douglas Hofstadter

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