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«The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.»
«Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
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«You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear»
«The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
assert, hearted, inflicting, pitiless, shrink, shrink from
«Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
censure, committing, fearing, shrink, shrink from, The Victims
«We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
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«These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Social service
| Keywords:
crisis, patriot, shrink, shrink from, soldier, The Service