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• My aspirations for this country would be on the scope of what Franklin Roosevelt brought to this country in 1932 when he saw a nation that was broken economically.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Country, Broken, Would Be

  "Kucinich's anti-war platform". "Crossfire" with Robert Novak, edition.cnn.com. February 24, 2003.

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• Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to build. Films are overwhelming in their magnitude and scope. By comparison, a lot of film directors wish they were writing songs because you can do it while getting your hair cut.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Writing, Cutting

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Writing, Want, Doe

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• The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast, the narrowing of the frontage made it easier for the defender to switch his local reserves to any threatened point on the defensive arc.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Army, Levers

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• The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Film, Expensive

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• The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

  Drew Endy

  Materials, I Can

  "From the cells up" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2005.

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• I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Reading, Men

  William Faulkner, Noel Polk (1987). “Absalom, Absalom!, typescript setting copy and miscellaneous material”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.

  A. R. Rahman

  Looks, World, Ends

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• We don't want to give the controls to someone else; we want those reins ourselves. We want to get our way. And we get upset when things don't work out. . . . When we try to control someone else or events beyond the scope of our power, we lose. When we learn to discern the difference between what we can change and what we can't, we usually have an easier time expressing our power in our lives. Because we're not wasting all our energy using our power to change things we can't, we have a lot of energy left over to live our lives.

  Melody Beattie

  Control Someone, Differences, Giving

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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 appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.

  Mark Jason Dominus

  Names, Size, Computer

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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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• When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches for the front. But soon events assumed such gigantic and far-reaching scope as to demand larger canvasses.

  Sergei Prokofiev

  Song, War, Events

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• I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.

  Martin Seligman

  Psychology, Trying, Faces

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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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• Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.

  Leon Trotsky

  Powerful, Struggle, Ukraine

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• Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the constitution, are constitutional.

  John Marshall

  Mean, Letters, Spirit

  McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

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• I think I just have an idea in my head about how big an adventure game should be, so it's hard for me to design one that's much smaller than Grim Fandango or Full Throttle. There's just a certain amount of scope needed to create a complex puzzle space and to develop a real story. At least with my brain, there is.

  Tim Schafer

  Real, Adventure, Thinking

  "Press Start: Double Fine kickstarter lacks cash, Japan to get Xbox One in 2014, and more" by Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Book, People, Mind

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• Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.

  Darrell Huff

  Imagination, Novelists, Statistician

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• Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

  Havelock Ellis

  Artist, Imagination, Spheres

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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