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shrank

«Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.»
«Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.»
«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.»
«I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.»
«It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.»
«Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: shrank, sinew, thigh
«Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.»
«I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend»
«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»
«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.»