Expanding Quotes - Page 11

• Everyone who is inside of an expanding bubble can't imagine another world where the bubble collapses on them. It's unimaginable because they haven't lived through it.

  Kevin Kinsella

  World, Imagine, Collapse

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I remember my mentor once said, "The low road is crowded. The high road is wide open. So let's try to take the high road." I think that people are hungry for content that enriches and expires. You can entertain people while still expanding their horizons. You don't have to have it be a race to the bottom with reality television.

  Jason Silva

  Reality, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.politico.com

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• There's no reason why one need not look at the content of education just as one is expanding the availability of school, because it doesn't cost more money to get them [a] better education. It requires better textbooks, it requires a vision, it requires a determination, but it's not very expensive to do that anyway.

  Amartya Sen

  Determination, School, Availability

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the main sources of success of the Americans. And there is something that the world can learn from it and also be assisted by the United States along with Europe and the rest of the world. I really hope that this is an issue that engages the American public.

  Amartya Sen

  Europe, Issues, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think just as armament had a major impact of a negative kind in the world, education is something which has a major impact of a positive kind in the world. And I think the American population, with its humanity and with its concern about the future of the world, has a real reason to think about what it can do to help the world in expanding education.

  Amartya Sen

  Real, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We need heroes of color in all different genres. It's also valuable for white readers to be able to meet people in books that are different than themselves. That can be a way of expanding their minds and experiences.

  Kekla Magoon

  Hero, Book, White

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• For anybody here who's very worried about domestic priorities, just consider we have created, with this war on terrorism, more fighters, more countries embroiled. They're learning new weapons. They're learning new techniques. They're coming here in social media. The lone wolf thing is expanding. And once that blows here, then forget about domestic priorities.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, War, Blow

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it.

  Karen Karbo

  Fun, Vacation, Two

  Karen Karbo (2008). “How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate the Great”, p.182, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• And what I was feeling was the wonder Of being more than me, of being more Than mere here and now allowed I had become a shining star, a burning nova Exploded with love Flying through an endlessly Expanding universe Away from the me that was Toward a me that is beyond Understanding.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Stars, Expanding Universe, Shining

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• I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Real, New Beginnings, Different

  Jeanette Winterson (2010). “Weight”, p.137, Canongate Books

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• Pressed up against him, I can feel the thud of his heart against mine, his ribcase expanding and contracting rapidly against my chest, the warm whisper of his breath tickling the side of my neck, the brush of his leg against my thigh. Resting my arms on his shoulders, I pull back a little to get a look at his face. But he isn't smiling any more.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Heart, Looks, Legs

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• A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent.

  Mark Rothko

  Eye, World, Companionship

  Susan J. Barnes, John de Menil, Dominique de Menil, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman (1989). “The Rothko Chapel: An Act of Faith”, Menil Foundation

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• Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch.

  Lauren Oliver

  Breathing, Two, Space

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• In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.

  Arthur Golden

  Children, Taken, Doors

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• It's important to recognize that expanding the circle of opportunity
  and increasing the democratic potential of our own society,
  as well as those across the world, is a continuing process of inclusion.

  Hillary Clinton

  Opportunity, Circles, Important

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• I'd like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that for all of us as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Years, Knowledgeable Person

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• If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When Father Painted the Parlour'? Leave me out. I can expand my universe without you. 'She walks into beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies, and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes.

  Tom Stoppard

  Father, Eye, Dark

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Tom Stoppard: plays”

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• He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.

  Jack London

  Wall, Light, Way

  Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.61, Jack London

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• The bottom line is this - whereas Iran was steadily expanding its nuclear program, we have now cut off every single path that Iran could have used to build a bomb.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, Iran, Nuclear

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• People don't put as much of an emphasis in expanding their choices, so that, you know, one of the things that I learned when I was in Japan way back in the 1990's and there were all these quarrels happening between the U.S. and Japan about allowing more American products into the Japanese market.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Japan, People, Choices

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.

  Lori Lansens

  Epidemics, Issues, World

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The whole nostalgia thing, and just sticking with what you always liked and what you know and not taking a chance on something or expanding. I think especially after a certain age.

  Paul Weller

  Thinking, Age, Chance

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you're expanding the scope of the impact you can have.

  Ramez Naam

  Teaching, Impact, Roi

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• I don't want them to move their plants. I want them to stay in Michigan. I want them to stay in all of the places where they are, or expanding to other places. But I want it to be in the United States. I don't want them to go to Mexico.

  Donald Trump

  Moving, United States, Mexico

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Mean, Patterns, Consciousness

  Source: pitchfork.com

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