Expanding Quotes

• In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

  Henry Miller

  Witty, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.262, New Directions Publishing

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• The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

  John Naisbitt

  Mean, Technology, Century

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• Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  "The Garden of Forking Paths". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1942.

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• In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

  Quentin Crisp

  Expanding Universe, Addresses, Sides

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• Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.

  Robert Nelson

  Attitude, Coffee, Levels

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Management, Wells, Can Do

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• One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Struggle, Men, Expanding Universe

  Letter to Georg Brandes, February 17, 1871.

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• We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

  A. B. Yehoshua

  People, Giving, Identity

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• As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society in the land of our adoption.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Love, Land, Australia

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Japan, Views, Asia

  "Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1994.

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• Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.

  Richard Neal

  Country, Believe, National Security

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• Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

  Siobhan Davies

  Believe, Thinking, Massage

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• Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

  John Bardeen

  Fields, Grows, Frontiers

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1972.

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• My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

  Douglass North

  Relationship, Analysis, Banking

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• Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

  Will Durant

  Ignorance, Desert, Mirages

  Will Durant (2011). “The Reformation: The Story of Civilization”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Block, School, Opportunity

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• Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind's focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

  Vanna Bonta

  Ignorance, Space, Perspective

  "The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society". Book co-sponsored by The International Academy of Astronautics and The European Space Agency, February 2005.

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• Information is expanding daily. How to get it out visually is important.

  John Maeda

  Important, Information

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• We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding, very soon. This will also be a blessing to the Arab neighbors. Hebron is worthy to be Jerusalem's sister.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Mistake, Blessing, Growing

  "Hebron Is Jerusalem's Sister" by Sdeh Boker, Hebron.com, January 25, 1970.

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• I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Play, Balls

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Besides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion ("expansion,", Fr.) of instruction, distrust and hatred expanding among nations ("s'étendre la méfiance et la haine entre," Fr.), that vie with one another ("qui rivalisent à l'envi," Fr.), by the increase of their armies and the improvement of their engines of murder ("engins meurtriers", Fr).

  African Spir

  Army, Hatred, Progress

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 37), 1937.

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• Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Stars, Kings, Drama

  "THE AVENGERS Star Tom Hiddleston Writes Eloquent Editorial in Defense of Superhero Movies" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. April 20, 2012.

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• Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S

  Rosa DeLauro

  Government, Abortion, Low Income

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• What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Art, Lines, Ascending

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1029, Delphi Classics

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