Expanding Quotes

• In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

  Henry Miller

  Witty, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.262, New Directions Publishing

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• The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

  John Naisbitt

  Mean, Technology, Century

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• Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  "The Garden of Forking Paths". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1942.

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• In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

  Quentin Crisp

  Expanding Universe, Addresses, Sides

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• Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That's how they expand

  Robin Sharma

  Motivational, Wise, Limits

  Twitter post from Nov 15, 2016

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• Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.

  Robert Nelson

  Attitude, Coffee, Levels

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Management, Wells, Can Do

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• I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.

  Sean Astin

  Taken, Pounds, Moments

  "An Interview with Sean Astin". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. December 18, 2002.

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• While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.

  Mark Udall

  Believe, Needs, Done

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• In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

  Quentin Crisp

  Expanding Universe, Sides, Outcast

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 3, 1968.

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• The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

  Larry Wall

  World, Perl, Has Beens

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• Small businesses are vital contributors to our economy. They are the economic engine that is creating jobs, exploring innovation, and expanding opportunities for Americans in every community across the Nation.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Jobs, Opportunity, Creating

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• Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations.

  Vito Fossella

  Moving, Rights, Ukraine

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• We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Expectations, Sides, Exit

  "Interview: Dell's Rollins lays out a road map, from services to AMD". Interview with Tom Sullivan, www.infoworld.com. November 12, 2004.

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• The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.

  James Meade

  Understanding, Fields, Rate

  "James E. Meade - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2014.

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• But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers strong, capacity utilization strong - that's an environment in which the Fed needs to continually be alert to early signs of inflation.

  John W. Snow

  Strong, Gdp, Numbers

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• My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

  Ezra Cornell

  Children, Mind, Dear God

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• As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.

  J. William Fulbright

  Law, United States, Reign

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.114, Random House

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• In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

  Chen-Ning Yang

  Impact, Western Culture, Half

  Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

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• That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.

  Duane G. Carey

  Forever, One Day, Together

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• We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe.

  James Inhofe

  Rights, Democracy, Privilege

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• China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Cities, Nuclear, China

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• There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.

  Norman Mailer

  Freedom, America, Long

  1966 Cannibals and Christians,'My Hope For America'.

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• Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?

  Peter De Vries

  Science, Years, Expanding Universe

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