Range Quotes

• A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!

  Tom Wilson

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

  Walt Whitman

  Communication, Race, Growth

  Walt Whitman (2003). “The Portable Walt Whitman”, p.557, Penguin

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• Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

  Helen Keller

  Motivational, People, Immature

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Leadership, Freedom

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• Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, Giving, Probability

  Daniel Deronda II xiii (p. 100)

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• We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles

  Jim Rohn

  Powerful, Past, Long

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 09, 2017

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• The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Grandmother, Men, Good Man

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• Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

  Dan Lipinski

  Loss, Energy, Climate

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• Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Children, Acceptance

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”

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• Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.

  Robert Burns

  Nature, Law, Looks

  Robert Burns (1826). “The works of Robert Burns: with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings. To which are prefixed, some observations on the character and condition of the Scottish peasantry”, p.97

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• Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

  Joseph Joubert

  Political, Curiosity, Mind

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• Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes.

  Louis Finkelstein

  Sacrifice, Long, Purpose

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• Man is never out of range of surprises!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Surprise

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• Comedians have a tendency to have a limited range, they tend to do one thing and do it very well, but it's limited.

  Woody Allen

  Comedian, Tendencies, Wells

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• We must adopt reforms which will expand the range of opportunities for all Americans. We can fulfill the American dream only when each person has a fair chance to fulfill his own dreams. This means equal voting rights, equal employment opportunity and new opportunities for expanded ownership, because in order to be secure in their human rights, people need access to property rights.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Wisdom, Dream, Mean

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.11, Best Books on

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• Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.

  Artur Schnabel

  Garden, Mountain Ranges, Light

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• No book or expert can protect us from the range of painful emotions that make us human.

  Harriet Lerner

  Book, Experts, Emotion

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Stars, Lying, Space

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• I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him-they were part of his “road,” the infinite range of experience that always had to remain open to fuel his work.

  Joyce Johnson

  Stories, Fuel, Body

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• If I want a small take-everywhere camera, I prefer my iPhone 5, which has colors and tonal range superior to any DSLR or compact digital camera I've ever used at their default settings.

  Ken Rockwell

  Iphone, Color, Cameras

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• I would like to get jobs doing other things that aren't necessarily always with my husband. I'd like to show range - and kiss another guy.

  Katie Aselton

  Jobs, Husband, Kissing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• So, obviously, autism - which is the key in this - is a very big problem. We need more studies about it. We certainly have to try to figure out what causes it and why and do something about it. But to tab it to vaccines, I think, is a real mistake. Not only is there no evidence, but what it leads to is larger numbers of unvaccinated children. And that's not only a problem for polio. It's a problem for a wide range of vaccine-preventable diseases.

  David Oshinsky

  Children, Real, Mistake

  "Bill Gates' Goal: Get Rid Of Polio, Forever". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 31, 2011.

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• The only way to change American society, and indeed I think this is true of other societies as well, is for people to discover the power latent in the cooperative roles that they play in a range of institutions.

  Frances Fox Piven

  Thinking, Play, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't think we should have sex in games. But I think we should have the right to have it. We should have the full range of human experience. It's an art form like any other art form. For me, that's the importance of preserving it.

  Brenda Romero

  Art, Sex, Thinking

  "Women Working In Games: Brenda Brathwaite On Maternity Leave, Making The 'Playboy' Game And Hope For The Future". Interview with Tracey John, www.mtv.com. December 13, 2007.

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• I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, People, Comedian

  "How John Cleese got his accidental start in comedy". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. January 19, 2015.

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