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• Non-crazy gun advocates - the ones who aren't stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion - don't like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it'll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market.

  Gail Collins

  Crazy, Gun, Thinking

  "Guns, Guns, Guns". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 3, 2013.

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• Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion. We may accept the expanding power of bureaucrats so long as we bask in their friendly smile. But it is a dangerous temptation. Today politics may be our friend and tomorrow we may be its victims.

  Owen D. Young

  Mean, Power, Government

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• The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption.

  Simon N. Patten

  Simple, Doe, Saving

  Simon N. Patten (1968). “The New Basis of Civilization”, p.215, Harvard University Press

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• I think the diversity of authors and readers is expanding, which is wonderful, because it means the type of story being told is also expanding.

  Sarah Zettel

  Mean, Thinking, Diversity

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• The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Opportunity, Class, Dysfunction

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• I think I had the same notion most people have, which is it’s simply a town that percolates around country music. Though country-music history is deep and richly steeped throughout the city, this is a place that’s been expanding musically and culturally…People coming from Europe and Canada-there are all kinds of different cultures and different music being represented here. It continues to blossom.

  Joy Williams

  Country, Thinking, Nashville

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• Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

  Paul Rogat Loeb

  Impossible, Boundaries, Abstract

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• This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

  Adam Grant

  Zero, Successful, Cutting

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• A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Perfect, Individuality

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• Even towards yourself you have to be tremendously loving, because you too are god's form. One has to love oneself, one has to love all. Love is prayer. And the more you love, the more you will feel your consciousness expanding, becoming bigger - because whomsoever we love becomes part of our being, we include him. Mm? A bird on the wing, and we look at the bird with great love - suddenly we are not two: the bird is inside us and we are inside the bird.

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Love Is, Wings

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• The holiness of the kingdom of God must be preserved. If Jesus refused to acknowledge and fight for Israel as God's favored nation- even though it was the one nation in history that actually held this status at one time- how much more must his followers refuse to acknowledge and fight for America as God's favored nation" To say it another way, if Jesus was committed solely to establishing a kingdom that had no intrinsic nationalistic or ethnic allegiances- not even with Israel- how much more should his followers be committed to expanding this unique, non-nationalistic kingdom?

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Jesus, Fighting, Unique

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• There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is expanding more slowly than in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  John F. Kennedy

  Land, Immigration, Needs

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• Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as it is expanding geographically.

  Joan Robinson

  Long, Investment, Profit

  Joan Robinson (1973). “Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory”

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• Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. Further, it is truly international in scope. Science is a collaborative effort. The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

  John Bardeen

  Hard Work, Science, People

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1972.

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• If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance to the expanding heteronomy, even if only as thought's powerless attempt to remain its own master and to convict of untruth, by their own criteria, both a fabricated mythology and a conniving, resigned acquiescence.

  Theodor Adorno

  Philosophy, Acquiescence, Way

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.22, Univ of California Press

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• These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

  Trey Gowdy

  Bad Ass, Years, Priorities

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• The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Jesus, Soul

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• The Reagan years showed us that expanding economic freedom should be the North Star - the guiding light - of U.S. policy, because it is the best way to achieve sustained and broad-based prosperity for all.

  Jon Kyl

  Stars, Independent, Light

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• At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the whole face of nature, vivifying every colour of the landscape, and sprinkling the dewy earth with glittering light.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Adventure, Light, Unveiling

  Ann Radcliffe (1820). “The romance of the forest, by the authoress of 'A Sicilian romance'.”, p.27

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• It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda. The record suggests, however, that the policy-makers stayed in Vietnam not so much because of overly optimistic hopes of winning ... as because of overly pessimistic assessments of the consequences of losing.

  Jonathan Schell

  War, Optimistic, Winning

  Jonathan Schell (1987). “The real war: the classic reporting on the Vietnam War with a new essay”, Pantheon

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• Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Pregnancy, Moving, Movement

  Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.129, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep going. More and more television sets. More and more cars. More and more steel, and more and more pollution. We don't question whether we need any more or what we'll do with them. We just have to keep on making more and more if we are to keep going. Sooner or later it's going to collapse. ... Look what we have done already with the principle of more and more when it comes to nuclear weapons.

  Dora Russell

  Car, Principles, Needs

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• I try to visualize geometric shapes and patterns slowly spinning and expanding into infinity.

  Martina McBride

  Geometric Shapes, Trying, Patterns

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• The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of our views and opinions. It is this which gives the writer a vast superiority, as to the accuracy and extent of his conceptions, over the mere talker. No one can ever hope to know the principles of any art or science thoroughly who does not write as well as read upon the subject.

  William Blaikie

  Art, Powerful, Writing

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• Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing and exchanging ideas. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.

  Mary McCarthy

  Friendship, Believe, Growth Hormones

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