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To miniaturize is also to conceal.
The forest has shrunk
And fear has expanded,
The forests have dwindled,
There are less animals now,
less courage and less lightning,
less beauty
and the moon lies bare,
deflowered by force and
then abandoned.
I have been cut in two.Cut-- Anne Sexton
The only way to clamp down on my energy is to erase my emotions, and so I fold them each away, one by one. My sorrow turns to anger, then to ice-cold fury. My soul curls in one itself in defense. I am gone. I am truly gone.
I am not sorry.
The greatest understanding of a thing is when you can't reduce it any further
The life cycle of public disgrace has been condensed to where the actual offense gets washed away, leaving just a neutral sheen of notoriety.
Simplify, simplify.
Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul
If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.
What you do not eliminate - you accumulate.
eaten for lunch.
Gone? - gone? What means that little word? - What
Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.
When all you want is a person's body and you don't really want their mind, heart or spirit, you have reduced a person to a thing.
What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be reproduced
Grateful people learn to celebrate even amid life's hard and harrowing memories because they know that pruning is no mere punishment, but preparation.
Chopped down the tree of peace, but it will grow again.
To lessen or destroy sexual pleasure is to lessen temptation; a fallback in case the religious injunctions on veiling and seclusion somehow fail to do the job.
A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.
Everything in moderation.
My pride has brought me very low.
Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams!
We have reduced the understanding of prayers to incantations.
They who trim themselves to suit others will soon whittle themselves away.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back
Thus my task was destruction.
To obtain something, something of equal value must be lost.
My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
(refactored) /**
Jesus, may there be less of me and my junk and more of You and Your kingdom." I will reduce, so He can increase.
We feel it's necessary to reduce accommodation.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
The (editing) work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty ... but in no time youd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.
Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.
I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.
The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
What was once, is no longer.
The cost of independence has dropped.
Diminishing returns is the outcome of restriction
I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
Control, edit and distill.
Certain forms are torn down, and it is well that they should be, but on condition that they are followed by reconstruction.
Eliminate the superfluous.
Disease, which had reduced the number to less than fifty persons, subsided; the oppressive heat lessened; and Indian crops of peas, corn, and beans began to mature.
Atomize and refigure the word.
It became an exercise to reduce and reduce, but it makes it easier to build an easier for people to work with.
When God appoints the gospel of his Son as the universal remedy for the guilt and corruption of mankind, and we diminish that, the gospel is diminished. And you cannot diminish the gospel without being diminished yourself.
I will set a target for the reduction of (government) employees ... I will implement the reduction of the total personnel costs of the employees.
I saw in a flash that if I shrank from this there would at once be less Queen and more Orual in me.
Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.
To simplify is about enhancing our ability to focus on things that really matter, to deliberately choose our priorities, and to refuse to let unimportant things take over the things of real importance.
May the crushed spirit revived.
Every word I put down, I put down with tears, with bitter blood, with sour gall, well mixed and blended with shame and guilt.
Gone, but not forgotten.
A very little little let us do
And all is done.
In my experience, cutting back is the crucial act that allows the vitality, precision and emotional heart of a piece of writing to emerge.
When bowing to the inevitable, it's best to do so low, and quickly.
Necessary preparations have been discussed and taken for the complete and fundamental elimination of this concern, which occupies an important place in the exalted state's list of vital issues.
The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.
If you want to demoralize somebody's spirit, you take away their hope.
Restored in you, to be renewed in you, to receive from you
As for my needs, they had dwindled as it were to my dimensions and become, if I may say so, of so exquisite a quality as to exclude all thought of succour.
The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.
By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords. (p. 28)
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner
Simplify and add lightness
When we know that His plans are to prosper us and give us hope and future, we bow down at once to the blessing of pruning, knowing that the change that will take place in us, will take us places.
All my requests are in but one, thy Will be done.
As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago.
Deed done is well begun.
Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution was in self-control, in minimalism, in sparse living conditions; one simple and a brand-new dictionary filled with words everyone would understand.
The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint
R-o-l-a-i-d-s: How do you spell relief? [10w]
J-a-c-k-i-n-go-f-f.
God and his son have been demoted. "Now,
I'd like to cut down on the work a little bit.
Be ignited, or be gone.
Slow down, simplify and be kind.
shorn their heads
Revive, Rekindle, Rejoice.
horizontally compressed
County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.
You've gone back to the way you used to be before. The way you promised you'd never be again.
Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed.
Gone, but only until we get there-- Jo Royston
briefly to have stabilised, and a hundred initiatives
Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!
The granted for taken.
I lowered taxes in New York. I reduced the size of government in New York. I took a $2.4 billion deficit and turned it into a $3.2 billion surplus. And I reduced taxes over 23 times or 23 times.
If it can't be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.
A short story is simplification to the highest degree
A disarmed peace is weake.
Yep, it's gone myffic all right.
We've discovered a way to dilute
She has slimmed down since the height of impeachment, her thick blow-dried hair as shiny as Russian sable and her creamy cleavage, as historic in its own way as Mount Rushmore, was quite wonderful to behold.
The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away
Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.