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• You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Robots, Want, Made

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• We've introduced the New Apollo Energy Act, which is, I think, safe to say the most comprehensive and aggressive bill that has been introduced in Congress because it does have the scale, scope, and ambition of the original Apollo Project, and it attacks the problem in every way you can imagine. There's no silver bullet here, but there are lots of opportunities.

  Jay Inslee

  Ambition, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008 Issue.

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• We have had a loss in manufacturing base and a loss of some of our productive capability that can be filled with the green-collar jobs of tomorrow. But it will only happen if we recognize the scale and scope of both the challenge and the opportunity.

  Jay Inslee

  Jobs, Loss, Opportunity

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• Never underestimate the size and scope of my problems.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Size, Underestimate, Problem

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• War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. ... war is the realm of chance. No other human activity gives it greater scope; no other has such incessant and varied dealings with this intruder. Chance makes everything more uncertain and interferes with the whole course of events.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Fog, Giving

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.101, Princeton University Press

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• Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the feeling of knowing into reverent astonishment; of considering things that exceed the scope of our habits, and daring to face the only war that is worthwhile: The battle for awareness.

  Carlos Castaneda

  War, Knowing, Discipline

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• [Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to trial and verification; and it affords a boundless scope for the exercise of the highest efforts of imagination and invention.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Exercise, Imagination, Effort

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• You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.

  Tom Stoppard

  Artist, Men, Self

  Tom Stoppard (1996). “Travesties”, p.41, Grove Press

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• We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Character, Purpose, Faces

  Dwight D. Eisenhower (2006). “The Military-Industrial Complex: With an Introduction by Jesse Smith”, p.24, Basementia Publications

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• The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Personal Qualities, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “Works: English traits, Conduct of life”

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• Know that for the human mind there are certain objects of perception which are within the scope of its nature and capacity; on the other hand, there are, amongst things which actually exist, certain objects which the mind can in no way and by no means grasp: the gates of perception are closed against it.

  Maimonides

  Mean, Hands, Perception

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.123, Aeterna Press

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• You have to realize there are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more.

  Henry Rollins

  Destiny, Government, Culture Religion

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.

  Bobby Fischer

  Strong, Moving, Games

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• After moving to Los Angeles in the early '90s, I started looking into "music for picture" more seriously and in broader scope. My collaboration as a programmer and arranger with Graeme Revell exposed me for the first time to the full spectrum of film music, including the hectic demands of orchestral scoring and the power politics surrounding the finalization of any score for a major motion picture in Hollywood.

  Paul Haslinger

  Moving, Collaboration, Hollywood

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• Some says that genetic engineering is within the scope of the God! Well, it was so, that area would have been encircled with the impassable high walls! Mankind cannot lose its time with this kind of religious craps! Genetic engineering is our garden!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Religious, Wall, Garden

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• There is not always 'two sides to every issue.' That statement is a ridiculous slogan invoked by vested interests and perpetuated by minds of limited scope.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Two Sides, Issues, Mind

  Anton Szandor LaVey (1998). “Satan Speaks!”, p.29, Feral House

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• You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Men, Excellence, Trying

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• The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous enhancing of our senses, through its powers of enlargement, penetration and exact measurement, it constantly increases the scope and clarity of our perceptions. It fulfills the dream of all living creatures by satisfying our instinctive craving for the maximum of consciousness with a minimum of effort! Having embarked upon so profitable a path, how can Mankind fail to pursue it?

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Crush, Dream, Effort

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• I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Believe, Rational, Theological

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• Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.

  Al Ries

  Business, Want, Single Word

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• Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Class, Protection, Should

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• As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where particular state constitutions paid ideological lip service to constraints deriving from religious or natural law doctrines, they reserved to some constitutionally-defined body or person the right to interpret these doctrines.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Religious, Self, Law

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.51, Verso

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• It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Believe, Passion

  William Hazlitt (1847). “The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte”, p.236

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• Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, Verses, Knows

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.154, New Directions Publishing

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• Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Men, Individuality, Doe

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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