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• How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and is more and more difficult to check?

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Government, Democracy

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Success comes from continually expanding your frontiers in every direction-creatively, financially, spiritually, and physically.  Always ask yourself, what can I improve? Who else can I talk to? Where else can I look?

  James Altucher

  Looks, Frontiers, Asks

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• It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress. The only one who doesn't struggle is the one who doesn't grow. So if you are struggling right now, see it as a terrific sign - celebrate your struggle.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Real, Struggle

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jul 25, 2014

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• Educators committed to engaging in the long-term, often difficult work of strengthening their relationships with colleagues, students and parents and expanding their opportunities for personal growth will find Nonviolent Communication to be an invaluable tool.

  Ron Rubin

  Communication, Opportunity, Difficult Work

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• Vision is about more than just getting things done, accomplishing some task, achieving something; it is about discovering and expanding our view of others, affirming them, believing in them, and helping them discover and realize the potential within them-helping them find their own voice.

  Stephen Covey

  Believe, Views, Voice

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken. We don't manufacture much. We just burn up ever scarcer petroleum in the ever-expanding suburbs built with mortgage money lent to people who haven't a clue.

  Joe Bageant

  Reality, People, Driving

  Joe Bageant (2008). “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War”, p.76, Broadway Books

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• I've always loved Elton John and that is one of my favorite songs by him and Bernie (Taupin). The American songbook is ever-expanding and I feel like it works well with what I was trying to say.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Song, Trying, My Favorite

  "Renaissance man". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

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• I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was true of the essay, too. If you'd actually tried to be true to the essay, it would have been, perhaps, boring. So taking that narrow little cast of characters and expanding it out, that was what was exciting about the project for me.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  "Exclusive: Jonathan Franzen sounds off on bird poaching, climate change and 'performing love'". Interview with Lindsay Abrams, www.salon.com. April 27, 2015.

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• The selection of MediLab came after an extensive evaluation process. The laboratory in Zambia presented many challenges such as rapidly expanding services and capacity, the need to coordinate laboratory services for 16 and soon to be 24 clinics in the Lusaka district alone, the need to automate recording and dissemination of results and the need for a robust, expandable, user friendly and technically supported LIMS system. The technology and international experience of MediSolution made MediLab an obvious choice.

  Craig Wilson

  Technology, Zambia, Choices

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• Picture that the waves of golden light have now become a solid river of golden light that is constantly passing through you. Picture this golden light expanding beyond your body and filling up the entire room.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Filling Up, Rivers

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• All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the lower classes, who lived together in rural areas amid the untidy facts of nature. Notions of propriety and decorum come to the fore in urbanized periods ruled by an expanding middle class, which is obsessed with cleanliness, respectability, and conformism.

  Camille Paglia

  Class, Together, Rural Areas

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• My top priority in any trade negotiation is expanding opportunity for hardworking Americans. It's no secret that past trade deals haven't always lived up to their promise, and that's why I will only sign my name to an agreement that helps ordinary Americans get ahead, the bill put forward today would help us write those rules in a way that avoids the mistakes from our past, seizes opportunities for our future and stays true to our values.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Writing, Past

  "Lawmakers clear path for Obama's historic trade deal" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2015.

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• We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for
  behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Determination, Lying, Believe

  News Conference, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 28, 1965.

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• Animal liberation is also human liberation. Animal liberationists care about the quality of life for all. We recognize our kinship with all feeling beings. We identify with the powerless and the vulnerable, the victims, all those dominated, oppressed and exploited. And it is the non-human animals whose suffering is the most intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned of all.

  Henry Spira

  Animal, Feelings, Suffering

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• Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.

  Henry Spira

  Suffering, Systematic, Intense

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• The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use, and with increasing specialization. Minds are the ideal way to express complexity, energy density, increasing specialization, expanding diversity -- all in one system. Mindedness is what evolution produces. Mindedness is what technology wants, too.

  Kevin Kelly

  Technology, Diversity, Mind

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• I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Want, Fresh Start

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.24, Macmillan

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• To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul. These things can enlarge the soul: laughter, danger, imagination, meditation, wild nature, passion, compassion, psychedelics, beauty, iconoclasm, and driving around in the rain with the top down. These things can diminish it: fear, bitterness, blandness, trendiness, egotism, violence, corruption, ignorance, grasping, shining, and eating ketchup on cottage cheese.

  Tom Robbins

  Laughter, Rain, Ignorance

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• An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Love Life, Creativity

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• The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

  e. e. cummings

  Reality, Firsts, Steps

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  Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Struggle, Essence

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.141, Atlantic Books

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• Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of who we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of the disuniting of America and warnings of the clash of civilizations. As Langston Hughes sang, Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

  Ronald Takaki

  Time, Memories, Equality

  "What does it mean to be Asian American? / The passing of Cal Prof. Ronald Takaki, who helped define the term, leads Jeff Yang to reflect on its relevance in the Age of Obama" by Jeff Yang, www.sfgate.com. June 4, 2009.

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• For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated.

  Warren Buffett

  Law, Leader, Peers

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

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• I can feel the universe expanding and making things be further apart.

  Tao Lin

  Feels, I Can, Universe

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• Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simply to be, without defenses or desires. I will appreciate the flow of life for what it is-my own true self. I will notice those moments of intimacy with myself, when I feel that “I am” is enough to sustain me forever. I will lie on the grass at one with nature, expanding until my being fades into the infinite.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Lying, Home

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