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• The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

  James Madison

  Drawing, Spheres, Vortex

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.229

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• Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Relationship, Love You, Journey

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• The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Science, Earthquakes, Names

  "Earthquake information bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 1" (p. 6), 1980.

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• The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include the whole of humanity and the vast project of life that envelops the Earth.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Religious, Civilization, Humanity

  "‘The Empathic Civilization’: Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era" by Jeremy Rifkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Journey, Goal, Finding Yourself

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.52, Sahitya Akademi

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• I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred times denser than air. To halt and hang attached to nothing, no lines or air pipe to the surface, was a dream. At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings. (Since that first aqualung flight, I have never had a dream of flying.)

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Dream, Night, Eight

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• Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his mother’s surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be imagining it. Though…it was also odd that he would imagine his mother thinking such a string of curse words.

  Trudi Canavan

  Mother, Character, Thinking

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• Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I've seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a brilliant job of extending it across different platforms and merchandise.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Jobs, Bird, Different

  "Angry Birds Creator Raises $42 Million" by Evelyn M. Rusli, dealbook.nytimes.com. March 10, 2011.

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• We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Peace, Keys, Empowering

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.29, Random House

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• We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Marriage, Positivity

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• The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.

  George Will

  War, Men, Age

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• Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Technology, Thinking, Civilization

  An Introduction to Mathematics ch. 5 (1911)

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• Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks.

  Howard Schultz

  Categories, Starbucks, Brands

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• There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Stupid, Kids

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?

  Michio Kaku

  Growing, Body, Organs

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 11, 2011.

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• My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

  Naveen Jain

  Educational, Opportunity, Effort

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• I think that the churches do a better job in many respects than the government does in various kinds of things. Extending aid, the helpfulness, and so on, yes.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. December 26, 2004.

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• My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

  Dave Grohl

  Hands, Songwriting, Listeners

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• At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, Tools, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.

  Howard Rheingold

  Media, People, Faces

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• In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending it. There are many things to do. There are books to write and naps to take. There are movies to see and scrambled eggs to eat. Life is essentially trivial. You either decide you will take the trite business of life and give yourself the option of doing something really cool, or you decide you will opt for the Grand Epic of eating disorders and dedicate your life to being seriously trivial.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Book, Writing, Epic

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• How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?

  Rebecca Solnit

  Plato, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses.

  John Green

  Hands, Ducks, Together

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.105, Penguin

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• Chauncey seethed at the outrageous insult. "And your father?" he demanded, extending the sword. He didn't yet know all his vassals, but he was learning. He would brand the family name of this boy to memory.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Memories, Father, Boys

  Kate Brian, Jessica Verday, Richard Yancey, Scott Westerfeld, Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “All Good Things Come to an End: Free Teen eSampler”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as if they had substance, pebbles and stone extending to hold the corporal up...knees from buckling...hands from letting go of the blanket.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Letting Go, Hands, Giving

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