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• Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Intellectual, Limits

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• In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find — and I hear from other people that they agree — that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Happy Life, People, Giving

  "Test Yourself: Do You Have Clutter Mentality?" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the richness and scope of the human experience.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Moon, Agents

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• The reason why it is that strong, and why HipHop is so inbred, is that there is a very structured wheel, a very definable system on how to get paid in HipHop. Busta Rhymes is someone who took that road and sure enough got paid. As long people like him are allowed to continue to do that it wont change. There is a very specific sound and a very specific attitude, and it changes every year, but as long as you stay in there and keep doing it, and keep narrowing your scope, dressing the rigt ways etc. you get paid.

  DJ Shadow

  Strong, Attitude, Years

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• Whether that expansion is towards the beings around you or flora, fauna, and creatures. Love has so many unique yet consistent forms. People like Branson - he's an idea guru. Guys like Allan Savory - he's like Father Earth. Allan has literally discovered how to stop desertification and make Africa come alive with plant life. In each of its forms, love has an infinite scope of potential expansion, all of which I see leading to growth.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Father, Unique, Plant Life

  "Ian Somerhalder, ‘The Vampire Diaries’ Actor, Talks Love, Social Media And Social Change With Origin Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2013.

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• What I can do is to go out and talk about the problems and solutions, make people aware of the scope of the problems, get them to become advocates for a turnaround, and convince them to develop an action plan, targeted to their community, to deal with young people. [They need to] find out what the kids want to do - dances, midnight-basketball leagues.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Basketball, Kids, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses.... We agonize over a dinner menu, or have engine trouble on the way to work; and for seconds or minutes our cosmos shrinks to a miniscule volume of being, an epic of cheese sauces or tragedy of fanbelts.

  Robert Grudin

  Epic, Tragedy, Dinner

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won’t want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Struggle, Book, Writing

  "About Writing". www.kingsolver.com.

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• Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers). How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around). What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Fighting, Answers, Way

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch-22: A Memoir”, p.253, Hachette UK

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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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• The interesting scope of Mark Twain's development as a human being is that he grew. He saw, he travelled, he studied this country and later the world with the eye of a man educating himself. This is a central fact in the Mark Twain legacy. He became an American spokesman for the ideals of racial equality and dignity for the working man because he was willing to look the world in its face and see, really see what was happening to the people in it.

  Hal Holbrook

  Country, Eye, Men

  Source: www.broadwayworld.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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• 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 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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• 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 my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one student learns is obviously much different than how another student learns and so I've had to figure out how to get through to people honestly without hurting their feelings - which is no easy task just in the scope of being a human being, much less in the classroom, but which is something that is more important to me now than it was when I was 30 - and to show them a path to improving.

  Tod Goldberg

  Hurt, Philosophy, Teaching

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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 think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.

  Atom Egoyan

  Thinking, Looks, Our Society

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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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 scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write.

  Edward M. Lerner

  Writing, Length, Determine

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• It took a week for me to be able to take the gun apart, put the gun back together, get the ammunition and load, all the while keeping my eyes down the scope, which was something I'd never had to do before.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Eye, Gun, Together

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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