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• There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another.

  Empedocles

  Blessed, Long, Utterance

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• When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury - national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture - we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands.

  Rand Paul

  Couple, Law, Erosion

  "We Must Demilitarize the Police" by Rand Paul, time.com. August 14, 2014.

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Cutting, Wish

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively.

  Jon Stewart

  Christian, Dream, War

  "Graham's Last Crusade - June 26, 2005". abcnews.go.com.

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• Becoming one flesh is a broad concept involving the totality of life. The context of Genesis 2 and the teaching of the rest of the Bible about marriage demand this. At the same time, it is generally recognized that there is no place where this total sharing is more beautifully pictured or fully experienced than in the sexual relationship of the man and his wife.

  Wayne Mack

  Teaching, Men, Becoming One

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• In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until they reach Venezuela. Sandpipers, plovers, and broad-winged hawks have already left for Patagonia and Panama. Bats are headed for caves in Kentucky and Tennessee. Out in the Atlantic, humpback whales pass by on their way to the Caribbean. Even now, Canada geese are honking toward us from Quebec. It is a good day for the beginnings of journeys.Every time I look at you, I think, Now I cannot die.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Good Day, Thinking, Journey

  Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.7, Da Capo Press

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• To claim for socialism that it is a class war is to do it an injustice and indefinitely postpone its triumph. Socialism offers a platform broad enough for all to stand upon. It makes war upon a system, not upon a class.

  Keir Hardie

  War, Class, Triumph

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• Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad phenotypic manifestations. The case rests on a remarkable compilation of examples of convergent evolution, in which two or more lineages have independently evolved similar structures and functions.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Two, Example, Details

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• Everyone goes to the 'Grands-Boulevards' (in Paris, ed.) and let himself loose... ...Do not picture these in costume, they are not for the most part... ...perhaps a clown with a big nose, or two girls with bare necks and short skirts... ...the parade of the queens of the halls (markets) is also one of the events... ...Some are pretty but look awkward in their silk dresses and crowns, particularly as the broad sun displays their defects - perhaps a neck too thin or a painted face which shows ghastley white in the sunlight.

  Edward Hopper

  Girl, Queens, Two

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• I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean’s voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Beach, Ocean, Blessing

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.561, Library of America

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• You can understand Tunisia revolution as a failure to censor the internet. And Libya had that failure too. It's very difficult for governments that are autocratic and don't have broad popular support to be in power when a lot of people have these devices. That was what Arab Spring was about, that people could express this and lead to revolution.

  Eric Schmidt

  Spring, Government, People

  "Google's Big Tent event: porn, copyright, Eric Schmidt and all". www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2012.

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• How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2) To accomplish that purpose, the designer forms a plan. (3) To execute the plan, the designer specifies building materials and assembly instructions. (4) Finally, the designer or some surrogate applies the assembly instructions to the building materials. What emerges is a designed object, and the designer is successful to the degree that the object fulfills the designer's purpose.

  William A. Dembski

  Successful, Purpose, Degrees

  William A. Dembski (2006). “No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence”, p.11, Rowman & Littlefield

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• While the broad principles of democracy are universal, the fact remains that their application varies considerably ... We are at the beginning of the road, at the very beginning. We still have a long way to go.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Long, Democracy, Principles

  "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster". Interview with Gamal Nkrumah, weekly.ahram.org.eg. January 10-18, 2006.

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• One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep, the emergency measures, the national identity, all the things that a particular kind of man with a particular kind of power urge adores, these are the things that become important. War gives the lie to the personal, drowns it in meetings, alarms, sacrifices. The personal is only allowed to return as death.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Hate, War

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• You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under a tree; you watch and wait. At first there is nothing much to be seen. Nature looks like a whitish canvas with a few broad outlines faintly sketched in; all is misty, everything quivers in the cool dawn breeze. The sky lights up. The sun has not yet burst through the gauze veil that hides the meadow, the little valley, the hill on the horizon... Ah, a first ray of sunshine!

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Morning, Art, Sunshine

  "Letters of the great artists - from Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, 1963.

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• Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Night, Numbers, Space

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.180

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• Leaders teach. They motivate. They care. Leaders make sure that the way to success is always broad enough and straight enough for others to follow.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Leader, Care, Way

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• Live your life with a purpose beyond yourself, and you'll find that the world is as bold and broad as the interests that brought you here.

  Bryant Gumbel

  Live Your Life, Purpose, World

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• We need a revolution in the West: not violent overthrow, but a willingness to take responsibility for the course of history being set forth in our names. We need a revolution determined to activate broad, inclusive social change.

  Christina Baldwin

  Peace, Responsibility, Names

  Christina Baldwin (2009). “Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture”, p.22, Bantam

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• The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It's the ability of individuals to choreograph that information in idiosyncratic ways, the hope that individuals might feel invited by the gravitational pull of a broad and open commons to 'rip, mix, and burn' - to curate.

  Gideon Lewis-Kraus

  Rip, Promise, Information

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• While many have doubted the accuracy of the Bible, time and continued research have consistently demonstrated that the Word of God is better informed than its critics. In fact, while thousands of finds from the ancient world support in broad outline and often in detail the biblical picture, not one incontrovertible find has ever contradicted the Bible.

  Norman Geisler

  Biblical, Support, Details

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• That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it was like a broad visual arts course in sculpture, painting, graphics - all of that.

  Andy Serkis

  Art, Years, Firsts

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. January 27, 2003.

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• The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Disaster, Foreign Policy, Strokes

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• Quick beleevers neede broad shoulders.

  George Herbert

  Shoulders

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.316

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• The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us; at noon we trample them under foot; and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Morning, Lying, Feet

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works of Henry W. Longfellow”

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