Extensions Quotes - Page 16

• It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.

  Pam Brown

  Book, Reading, Years

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• Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.

  John Moody

  Rivers, East, Railroads

  John Moody (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• The Rolling Stones are constantly changing, but beneath the changes they remain the most formal of rock bands. Their successive releases have been continuous extensions of their approach, not radical redefinitions, as has so often been the case with the Beatles.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Rolling, Band

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• Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull

  Lord Byron

  Beautiful, Stars, Sky

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.76

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• A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.

  Adam Smith

  Earth, Generations, Absurd

  Adam Smith (1964). “Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms”

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• I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.

  Daniel Webster

  Slavery, Politics, Compromise

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• With the exception of lingerie and theater I'm interested in everything to do with clothes and perfumes: everything which is an extension of woman.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Clothes, Lingerie, Theater

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present manifestation of both white supremacy, white refusal to acknowledge culpability, and the attempts of black people to re-describe the harm and trauma we've endured, as well as to say afresh what it is that must be done if we are to be conscientious.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Jobs, White, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One recurring dream, many others have also: you go into a familiar house, discover a door or hallway, and find the house continues into hidden rooms. Sometimes a whole second house is there, a larger and unknown extension of the familiar dwelling.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Dream, Doors, Dwelling

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

  George Eliot

  Artist, Novelists, Benefits

  George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.98, 谷月社

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• If you sit there and you know that rule #1 is just that everything you do is honest and is just a natural and instinctual extension of yourself, then there you go.

  Lars Ulrich

  Honest, Natural, Knows

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• The accessibility and effective immortality of actual information is a magnificent phenomenon, a beautiful extension of human consciousness. It is too bad people find so many ways to abuse the internet, but that's just how things are.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Beautiful, People, Abuse

  "One of Obama’s Favorite Writers Redefines Spirituality". Interview with Gregory Barber, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2015.

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• All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.

  Victor Papanek

  Country, Thinking, People

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• The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a real programming language, designed for writing and maintaining substantial programs. Because people will want to do that!

  Richard Stallman

  Real, Writing, People

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• For me, collecting is sort of a natural extension of being an art dealer, because if you don't want to collect the artist, then you probably shouldn't be representing them.

  Larry Gagosian

  Art, Want, Natural

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. It's about making a work that is inspired by something preexisting but changes it to have a new value and meaning that doesn't in any way take away from the original - and, in fact, might provide the original with a second life or a new audience.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Communication, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension is labeled - will be bound to promote waste and put a curb on our prosperity and progress.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Government, Progress, Matter

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• Since the gangsters are glamorized, by extension the women they sleep with are also necessarily glamorous.

  Sonia Faleiro

  Sleep, Glamorous, Gangsters

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Art, Culture, Tides

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• My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Years, Age

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000 BC to the twentieth century, they encourage us to look to Europe and its extensions as the seat of all knowledge and intelligence. So long as they say “discover,” they imply that whites are the only people who really matter. So long as they simply celebrate Columbus, rather than teach both sides of his exploit, they encourage us to identify with white Western exploitation rather than study it.

  James W. Loewen

  White, Color, Europe

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.85, The New Press

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• I'm interested in music as an extension of character.

  Noah Baumbach

  Character

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• The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Ideas, Spirit

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• I was the enemy of the major studio. I believed in one man - one film. I believed one man should make the film. And I believed the director should be that one man. One man should do it - I didn't give a damn who. I just couldn't accept art as a committee. I could only accept art as an extension of an individual.

  Frank Capra

  Art, Men, Giving

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• We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Kings, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.303

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