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• At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.

  Herman Melville

  Ocean, Night, Anchors

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.101

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• There is broad scientific consensus that genetically engineered crops currently on the market are safe to eat. After 14 years of cultivation and a cumulative total of 2 billion acres planted, no adverse health or environmental effects have resulted from commercialization of genetically engineered crops.

  Pamela Ronald

  Years, Environmental, Acres

  "Scientists Are Happy California Won't Label Genetically Modified Food" by Christie Wilcox, www.businessinsider.com. November 7, 2012.

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• The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment upon civil liberties. For that reason, the military-security argument must be approached with a healthy skepticism.

  William J. Brennan

  Military, Temptation, Healthy

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• Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations would put a stop to most physico-mathematical inquiries. Am I to refuse to eat because I do not fully understand the mechanism of digestion?

  Oliver Heaviside

  Two, Inquiry, Digestion

  "Oliver Heaviside (1850-1927) — Physical Mathematician" by D.A. Edge. Teaching mathematics and its applications: An International Journal of the IMA, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 55-61, 1983.

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• Communists must never separate themselves from the majority of the people or neglect them by leading only a few progressive contingents in an isolated and rash advance, but must take care to forge close links between the progressive elements and the broad masses. This is what thinking in terms of the majority means.

  Mao Zedong

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Zedong Mao (1971). “Mao Tse-tung chu tso hsüan tu”

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• You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept testers, advertising people. What you find gets the high numbers is easily appealing subjects: a baby, a big broad joke, a high concept. Everything is tested. The effect is to lessen the gamble, but in fact you destroy a writer's confidence and creativity once so many people are invited into the tent.

  James L. Brooks

  Baby, Creativity, Hollywood Films

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• Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, One Love, Perdition

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Paper, Endure, Anarchism

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• I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Past, Knowing, Technique

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• The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

  Cyril Connolly

  Rivers, Sitting, Tipping

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• It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sex, Men, Race

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.124, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• I'm interested in machines that make you aware of the process of seeing and aware of what you do when you construct the world by looking. This is interesting in itself, but more as a broad-based metaphor for how we understand the world.

  William Kentridge

  Interesting, Machines, World

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• With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience.

  Jonathan Culler

  Art, Reflection, Anecdotes

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• The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.

  Herodotus

  Hair, Skins, Noses

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• All of this wasn't enough - the Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule to arouse the government's hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them and to expand the mass extermination.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Government, Hatred, Campaigns

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• I have found Jews to be more broad-minded than most whites on issues of race and politics, perhaps because they themselves have historically been victims of prejudice.

  Nelson Mandela

  Race, Issues, Prejudice

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal.

  Moshe Dayan

  Strong, Government, Israel

  Moshe Dayan's statement from the peaks of Massada (April 1973), as quoted in Avi Shlaim "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World", 2000.

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• Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Business, Goal, Mediocrity

  "Strategy as Stretch and Leverage" by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, hbr.org. March/April 1993.

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• He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend
  Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield
  Ethereal temper, massy, large and round,
  Behind him cast; the broad circumference
  Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb
  Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views
  At evening from the top of Fésolè,
  Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands,
  Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.

  John Milton

  Moving, Science, Artist

  John Milton (1855). “The complete poetical works of John Milton, with life”, p.10

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• From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.

  Russ Carnahan

  Important, Defense, Natural

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• Offering multiple games to reach such a broad audience is a great way to create awareness about horse racing. Obviously, my favorite is the jockey game. It's very realistic.

  Chantal Sutherland

  Horse, Offering, Games

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• I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.

  Steve Fossett

  Sports, Airplane, Different

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• If you're doing something in the city, then hopefully you're speaking to somebody who has an open mind who is walking by. And you're also speaking to a community of other people who do similar types of work. I like to think that the outdoor community is broad and able and open for anybody to see.

  Margaret Kilgallen

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• People are attempting to bring a superficial reality to superheroes which is rather stupid. They work best as the flamboyant fantasies they are. I mean, these are characters that are broad and big. I don't need to see sweat patches under Superman's arms. I want to see him fly.

  Frank Miller

  Stupid, Character, Mean

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• Far too often, children with developmental disorders are diagnosed solely on the basis of their observable behavior, slotted into broad diagnostic pigeonholes and provided generalized treatments that may not always meet their specific needs.

  Aditi Shankardass

  Children, Needs, May

  "Searching for roots of learning disorders" By Aditi Shankardass, www.cnn.com. July 13, 2010.

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