Enlargement Quotes

• We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

  Anna Brackett

  Anxiety, Goes On, Care

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• To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

  David McCullough

  Art, Responsibility, Alive

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 06, 2012

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• Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.

  Horace Mann

  Science, Mind, Principles

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.41

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• And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

  Alexander Pope

  Gossip, Rumor, Something New

  Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.130

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• To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.

  Anna Lindh

  Country, Numbers, Giving

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• We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Block, Decision, Cyprus

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.

  Samuel Johnson

  Language, Stability, Quotations

  'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755) preface (on citations of usage in a dictionary)

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• Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well.

  Romano Prodi

  Mean Girls, World, Relation

  World Economy interview, www.euractiv.com. February 16, 2004.

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• I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.

  John Woolman

  Friends, Virginia, Discipline

  John WOOLMAN (1840). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel labours, and christian experiences of ---”, p.15

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• The European Union's enlargement is part of the natural process of integration and globalisation that is underway in the world today.

  Vladimir Putin

  World, Unions, Today

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• The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.

  William Bligh

  Eight, Years, Lasts

  William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.31, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

  Fernand Leger

  Giving, Personality, Way

  Fernand Léger, Katharine Kuh (1953). “Léger: Catalogue of Th Exhibition Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago in Collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Art”

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• I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.

  Vandana Shiva

  Believe, Thinking, Overcoming

  "Earth Democracy - an interview with Vandana Shiva". Interview with Sarah Ruth van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. December 31, 2002.

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• The goal of terror is not traditional territorial enlargement; rather the war target of the terrorist is the dismemberment of the will of the community it terrorizes.

  John Ashcroft

  War, Goal, Community

  "Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice". Book by John Ashcroft, 2006.

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• Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' - that might be spam.

  Bill Gates

  Doe, Might, Mail

  "Gates forecasts victory over spam" by Tim Weber, news.bbc.co.uk. January 24, 2004.

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• Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Reading, Book

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• The world that is coming toward us out of time is going to be very much richer in a mental sense because (among other freedoms) we are going to get a modicum of freedom from linguistic frameworks, from familiar mental habits. Anyone who really knows two or more tongues realizes that even that small enlargement of liberty . . . gives him new perspectives, exercizes his soul anew.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Two, Giving, Perspective

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• It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world.

  Bertrand Russell

  Heart, Skills, Training

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.131, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Over the years I've studied the habits of golfers. I know what to look for. Watch their eyes. Fear shows up when there is an enlargement of the pupils. Big pupils lead to big scores.

  Sam Snead

  Eye, Golf, Years

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• Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Real, Men

  Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.43, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• There is nothing small about our God, and when we understand God we will find out that there ought not to be anything small about us. We must have an enlargement of our conception of God, then we will know that we have come to a place where all things are possible, for our God is an omnipotent God for impossible positions.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Impossible, Position, All Things

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• The pejorative term "political correctness" was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe.

  Judith Martin

  People, Political, Principles

  Judith Martin (2003). “Star-Spangled Manners: In Which Miss Manners Defends American Etiquette (For a Change)”, p.32, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Invention, Deviation, Fine

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• When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Nice, People, Looks

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.62, University of Illinois Press

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• Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Philosophy, Book, Agreement

  "The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes". Book by John Maynard Keynes, 1980.

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