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• Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself unpredictable and deny other people any reasonable anticipation, to place them in total uncertainty by offering no scope for their capacity to predict."

  Michael Jackson

  Powerful, Offering, People

  Michael Jackson (2004). “In Sierra Leone”, p.135, Duke University Press

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• From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Eagles, Wings, Birth

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.10

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• Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

  George Lucas

  Technology, Media, Stories

  "Beyond Star Wars" by Kevin Kelly and Paula Parisi, www.wired.com. February 01, 1997.

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• Never, never try to scope the market.

  Dean Koontz

  Trying

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• The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also an era of heightened challenge and creativity, of issues, and their world-wide scope, never has an era faced a more demanding and exciting crisis. This then, above all else, is the great and glorious era to live in, a time of of opportunity, one requiring fresh and vigorous thinking, indeed, a glorious time to be alive.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  War, Creativity, Thinking

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• Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.

  Clarence Darrow

  Civilization, Trials

  Richard J. Jensen, Clarence Darrow (1992). “Clarence Darrow: The Creation of an American Myth”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

  John J. Sweeney

  Children, Opportunity, Class

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• A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Technology, Self, Survival

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.53, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any other kind of intervention, for anything else would be an experiment, which would impose our will on future generations and take unreasonable chances with their welfare ... Thus such intervention is beyond the scope of consideration.

  Ian Wilmut

  Engineering, Ideas, Would Be

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• The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Hands, Would Be, Privilege

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• Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to me to have been the most amazing in character and the most stupendous in the scope of its consequences is the one relating to the problem of motion.

  Herbert Butterfield

  Character, Years, Intellectual

  Herbert Butterfield (1997). “The Origins of Modern Science”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays.

  Mark Rylance

  Motivation, School, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Pastels since I'm positive we won't get seated but the table is good, and relief that is almost tidal in scope washes over me in an awesome wave.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Tears, Relief, Tables

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.40, Pan Macmillan

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• Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memorable, Epic, Doubt

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns

  Marquis de Sade

  Sacrifice, Men, Sacrificing Everything

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• Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human mind to contemplate wonders, and to begin to understand their meaning.

  David R. Brower

  Rivers, Mind, Environmental

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• I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dream, Sweet, Imagination

  "The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery".

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• The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other channel than a scientific society, which naturally hesitates to admit into its printed records matters of uncertain value. Perhaps one may go further and say that a young author who believes himself capable of great things would usually do well to secure the favourable recognition of the scientific world by work whose scope is limited and whose value is easily judged, before embarking upon higher flights.

  John William Strutt

  Believe, Science, May

  "Introduction to Waterston's Memoir 'On the physics of media that are composed of free and perfectly elastic molecules in a state of motion'". Philosophical Transactions, p. 1-5, rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org. January 1, 1892.

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• "Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument,
  "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words;
  And in this change is my invention spent,
  Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.

  William Shakespeare

  Three, Fairness, Kind

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.299, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Rodgers & Hammerstein shows have a purity of unironic emotion that imprints itself upon people's hearts. They seem to touch our feelings so effortlessly. They have a scope and ambition that's missing from many musicals now.

  Mary Rodgers

  Heart, Ambition, People

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• To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Civilization, Language

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think there's a lot of scope in broadening the way videogames approach depictions of masculinity, which is still extremely narrow in scope. It would be nice to see a panel about gender in videogames and it not just be about one gender!

  Neil Druckmann

  Nice, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: za.ign.com

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• A dream shouldn't be measured by its size or scope, nor by the age or the experience of the dreamer, but rather by the passion, integrity and commitment of that dreamer to follow his or her heart

  Nathaniel Buzolic

  Dream, Integrity, Passion

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• The scope of herbal medicine ranges from mild-acting plant medicines such as chamomile and peppermint, to very potent ones such as foxglove (from which the drug digitalis is derived). In between these two poles lies a wide spectrum of plant medicine with significant medical applications. One need only go to the United States Pharacopoeia to see the central role that plant medicine has played in American medicine.

  Donald Brown

  Lying, Plant Medicine, Two

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• I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.

  Mick Ralphs

  Writing, Guitar, Years

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