Broads Quotes

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground

Noah Webster

Ties, Long, Joy

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Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

Andrew Johnson

Government, Giving, Political

Andrew Johnson, Paul H. Bergeron (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: February-August 1867”, p.86, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Nature, Science, Ideas

1887 A Study in Scarlet, ch.7.

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Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.

Samuel Eliot Morison

Mind, Synthesis, Reputation

Samuel Eliot Morison (1953). “By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses”, New York : Knopf

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Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.

Melissa Bean

Love, Marriage, Couple

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It's really been a better situation for me being with the Crush than it would if I were with the Broncos because this has given me a lot more broad range

John Elway

Crush, Sports, Range

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Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

Albert Einstein

Education, Science, Climbing

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Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

Peter Hammill

Art, Lying, Thinking

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We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

Cesar Chavez

Change, Ambition, Achievement

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A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.

Tim Holden

Educational, Technology, Impact

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I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.

Austan Goolsbee

Believe, People, Political

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I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.

Anton Yelchin

Character, Play, Lucky

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A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

Charles Tupper

Country, Taken, Rights

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Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

Chen Shui-bian

Wisdom, Peace, Opportunity

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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

Floyd Abrams

Views, Freedom Of Speech, Important

"First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock

Frank Sinatra

July, Years, Secret

"The Way You Wear Your Hat : Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'". Book by Bill Zehme, 1997.

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You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.

Knute Nelson

Mean, Order, Arrogance

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Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.

Sathya Sai Baba

Compassion, Mind, Vision

FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Feb 06, 2017

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To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business success that afforded my family everything we could possibly want. My wife and I then decided that we could use our wealth to make a difference. So we created the Broad Foundations to do four things: to improve urban public education, to support innovative scientific and medical research, to foster art appreciation for audiences worldwide and to support civic initiatives in Los Angeles.

Eli Broad

Appreciation, Money, Art

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It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.

Roger Waters

Home, Mad, Track

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You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.

Frank Sinatra

Perfect, World, Indifferent

"Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s". Book by Michael Johns, 2002.

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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

Henry Ward Beecher

Flower, Animal, Men

Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.100, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.

Katherine Dunn

Men, Bravery, Selfless

"Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Will Rogers

Funny, Lazy, Sloth

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

Gaston Bachelard

Life, Childhood, Adults

"The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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