Shrinkage Quotes

• Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world.

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  Jeanette Winterson

  Growing Up   Our World   Expansion  

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• The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.

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  Olaf Stapledon

  Light   Expansion   Cosmos  

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, Courier Corporation

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• When people are running up more and more debt for housing, they call that "real wealth." It exposes what's wrong in the mainstream economics and why most of the economics that justifies austerity programs and economic shrinkage is in the textbooks is not scientific. Junk economics denies the role of debt and denies the fact that the economic system we have now is dysfunctional.

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  Michael Hudson

  Running   Real   People  

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.

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  Mark Twain

  Ocean   Cat   Men  

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.55, eKitap Projesi

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• By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in Boulder] and Aram A. Boornazian [mathematician with S. Ross and Co. in Boston] have found evidence that the sun has been contracting about 0.1% per century during that time, corresponding to a shrinkage rate of about 5 feet per hour. And digging deep into historical records, Eddy has found 400-year-old eclipse observations that are consistent with such a shrinkage.

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  Jonathan Sarfati

  Years   Data   Feet  

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• One of the big problems in America's economic polarization and shrinkage is that pensions can't be paid. So there are going to be defaults on pensions here, just like Europeans are insisting in rolling back pensions. You can look at Greece and Argentina as the future of America.

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  Michael Hudson

  America   Rolling   Argentina  

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• She ran her gaze over his chest with frank appreciation. Then he shivered, realizing he hadn't really considered the weather. It was forty-five degrees max, but Chloe was giving him a go-on gesture with her hand. "All I have left is my pants," he said. "Yes, please." "It's cold, Chloe." She tilted her head. "Are you worried about shrinkage?" Well, he was now. -Chloe and Sawyer

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  Jill Shalvis

  Appreciation   Hands   Weather  

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• The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.

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  Patricia Moyes

  Building   Inevitable   Shrinkage  

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