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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.”

Whole Light Cosmos Expansion Units Wavelength Olaf Shrinkage

Book:Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

“The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.”

Building Inevitable Shrinkage

Author:Patricia Moyes

“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.”

Men World Matter Values Easy Can Do Plans This World Ocean Cat Shrinkage

Book:Following the Equator:

Source: Following the Equator:

“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.”

Looks Problem Bigs America Economic Paid Rolling Greece Default Pension Big Problems Argentina Insisting Polarization Future Of America Shrinkage

Author:Michael Hudson

“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.”

People Real Facts Running Wealth Roles Economic Program Economics Deny Debt Justify Mainstream Housing Junk Textbooks Economic Systems Austerity Real Wealth Shrinkage

Author:Michael Hudson

“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.”

World Ends Seems Difficult Growing Up Growing Size Disappear Our World Expansion Rigidity Shrinkage

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“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”

Giving Wells Said Hands Left Realizing Five Goes On Cold Please Degrees Appreciation Weather Worried Ran Forty Chests Pants Gestures Frank Max Chloe Sawyer Shrinkage

Author:Jill Shalvis

“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.”