Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose."
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Steven Morrissey
Singer-Songwriter
"The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags."
Scott Walker
Politician
"But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips."
Dizzy Dean
Baseball Player
"If you can do it, it ain't braggin'... it's a matter of self-confidence. I got where I did because I wasn't no shrinking violet."
Al Gore
Politician
"The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned."
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"Rather than shrinking away from your problems, grow bigger than them."
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"The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world."
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"What is certainly true is that the American people, just like the German people, just like the British and people around the world, are seeing extraordinarily rapid change. The world is shrinking, the economies have become much more integrated and demographics are shifting."
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"With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour."
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"We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy."
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