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• Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

  Charles William Eliot

  Spiritual, Thinking, Would Be

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• For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?

  Khalil Gibran

  Prayer, Self

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Some said America took a step forward electing a black president. In light of the unconstitutiona l expansion of powers, lack of transparency and fueling the fires of unrest that clearly hasn't been the case. Vote based on merits, not to fill a racial quota.

  Denzel Washington

  Fire, Light, America

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• An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.

  Petra Kelly

  Support, Limitless, Economics

  Petra Karin Kelly (1994). “Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence”, Parallax Pr

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• In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of keeping our sense of wonder. The strange worlds that exist in the pages of fantastic literature teach us a tolerance of other people and places and engender an openness toward new experience. Fantasy puts the world into perspective in a way that 'realistic' literature rarely does. It is not so much an escape from the here-and-now as an expansion of each reader's horizons.

  Jane Yolen

  Compassion, New Experiences, Differences

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• There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

  Edith Wharton

  Friendship, Best Friend, Self

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.7592, Delphi Classics

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• The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

  George W. Bush

  Our World, World, Hoping For The Best

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion.

  Martin Feldstein

  Years, Dollars, Needs

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• Financial service providers act as the lubricating oil in the economy. They link consumers who want to invest their savings for a good return with companies who want to borrow on best terms for expansion.

  John Bruton

  Oil, Saving, Links

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• I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity

  Roy Barnes

  Want, Prosperity, Profit

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• But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.

  John Bruton

  Needs, Levels, Regulation

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• Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Jobs, Uncles, Mean

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• The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.

  Kent Conrad

  Government, Issues, Would Be

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• Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Strong, Growth, Typical

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• All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.

  Sarah Zettel

  Thinking, Would Be, Wonder

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• Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.

  Sarah Zettel

  Guilt, Glory, Myth

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• The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.

  Rand Beers

  Next, Crime, Millennium

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• We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

  Irving Babbitt

  Degrees, Renaissance, May

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• You know, we certainly have a great budget on the show, but the expansions to world of the show really arise because, and this is kind of the idea of the premise of the show, where is each week you're kind of meeting . . . It's random access.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Ideas, World, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• Meditation means conscious self-expansion. Meditation means one's conscious awareness of the transcendental Reality. Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one's own true self. It is through meditation that we transcend limitation, bondage and imperfection.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Mean, Reality, Discovery

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• Japan became an imperialist country in many ways, but that was much later, after it had already made big progress. I don’t think Japan’s wealth was based on exploiting China. Japan’s wealth was based on its expansion in international trade.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Thinking, Japan

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• You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

  George P. Shultz

  Taxes, Rate, Revenue

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• Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law, order, and righteousness. ...It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Law, Civilization

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• For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed by equally sudden falls. I have most faith in the individual or enterprise that advances step by step. A mushroom can spring up in a day; an oak takes 50 years or more to reach maturity. Mushrooms don't last; oaks do. The real cause for an enormous number of business failures is premature over-expansion, attempting to gallop before learning to creep. Sudden successes often invite sudden reverses.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Spring, Real

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• It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

  Clay Shirky

  Historical, Generations, Scarcity

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