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• Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Couple, Team

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1955.

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• A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do for a living?" "I study astronomy," he replied. "Really? said the teenager, wide-eyed. "I finished astronomy last year."

  James Keller

  Life, Girl, Teenager

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• The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the wide-open eye which leads us to see truth more vividly, to apprehend more broadly, to concern ourselves more deeply, to be, all our life long, sensitive and awake to the powers and responsibilities given to us as human beings.

  Christopher Fry

  Life, Truth, Mean

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• Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Party, Past, Hands

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1908). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”

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• A successful unification of quantum theory and relativity would necessarily be a theory of the universe as a whole. It would tell us, as Aristotle and Newton did before, what space and time are, what the cosmos is, what things are made of, and what kind of laws those things obey. Such a theory will bring about a radical shift - a revolution - in our understanding of what nature is. It must also have wide repercussions, and will likely bring about, or contribute to, a shift in our understanding of ourselves and our relationship to the rest of the universe.

  Lee Smolin

  Successful, Law, Space

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• True depth of understanding is wide and steady,
  Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering,
  Words of wisdom are precise and clear

  Zhuangzi

  Wisdom, Understanding, Lazy

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• Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mother, Dream, Lying

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6844, Delphi Classics

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• The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.

  William Henry Ashley

  Horny, Mountain, Bigs

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• It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again.

  Marge Piercy

  Love, Letting Go, Hurt

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.55, Knopf

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• Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.

  Homer

  Love, Power, Grace

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.333

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• If we wish to serve God and love our neighbor well, we must manifest our joy in the service we render to Him and them. Let us open wide our hearts. It is joy which invites us. Press forward and fear nothing.

  Katharine Drexel

  Love, God, Christian

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• Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.

  Dogen

  Life, Moon, Light

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• It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

  George Eliot

  Caring, Men, Feelings

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1625, Delphi Classics

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• A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Family, Mother, Ocean

  Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “Especially for Mothers”, Barbour Publishing

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• Plant spacious parks in your cities, and loose their gates as wide as the morning, to the whole people.

  Andrew Jackson Downing

  Morning, Cities, People

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• The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short time before it o'erleaps it's improvised confinements and spreads its flames far and wide.

  Robert Higgs

  Fire, Flames, States

  "The Song That Is Irresistible: How the State Leads People to Their Own Destruction". Robert Higgs's Schlarbaum Award Acceptance Speech at the Mises Institute's 25th Anniversary Celebration, mises.org. October 16, 2007.

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• The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.

  Romare Bearden

  Swimming, Artist, Whales

  Myron Schwartzman, Romare Bearden (1990). “Romare Bearden, his life & art”, Harry N. Abrams

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• Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty of space for lawns and gardens, reserved large areas for football, hockey and parks. Earmark areas for Hindu temples, Mohammedan mosques and Christian churches.

  Jamsetji Tata

  Christian, Football, Hockey

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• If you have to be right, you put yourself in a hedged lane, but once you experience the power of not having to be right, you will feel like you are walking across open fields, the perspective wide and your feet free to take any turn.

  John Naisbitt

  Feet, Perspective, Fields

  John Naisbitt (2006). “Mind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future”, HarperBusiness

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• They claim that autism naturally occurs at about 18 months, when the MMR is routinely given, so the association is merely coincidental and not causal. But the onset of autism at 18 months is a recent development. Autism starting at 18 months rose very sharply in the mid-1980s, when the MMR vaccine came into wide use. A coincidence? Hardly!

  Bernard Rimland

  Vaccines, Autism, Rose

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• It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.

  Julia Ormond

  Learning, Eye, Enough

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide, But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature; Who, when she loudly cries-Forbear! With obstinacy fixes there; And where the genius least inclines, Absurdly bends his whole designs.

  Jonathan Swift

  Dog, Horse, Lying

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• From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire. Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes - perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars: how they will wield The mighty frame: how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb.

  John Milton

  Stars, Laughter, Moving

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 8, l. 76

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• The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have.

  David Deida

  Letting Go, Sex, Giving Up

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• The rivers flow long distances and their goodness spreads all over far and wide. We are far from each other but our love for each other is creating a story that will forever be remembered.

  Daran Norris

  Distance, Rivers, Creating

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