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• Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through.
  Have liberty not as the air within a grave
  Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native,
  In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.

  Wallace Stevens

  Freedom, Hate, Air

  Wallace Stevens (1954). “Collected poems”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre, writing, and painting. While the American Mercury and the new Ford continue to spread a thin varnish of Ritz over the whole United States there is a certain virtue in being unfashionable.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Writing, Men

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• My soule her wings doth spread
  And heaven-ward flies,
  Th' Almighty's Mysteries to read
  In the large volumes of the skies.

  William Habington

  Sky, Wings, Heaven

  William Habington (2015). “Castara: The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier Ones of 1634, 1635”, p.120, WESTMINSTER A. CONSTABLE AND CO

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• Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Pride, Water

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• I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Wings, Done, My Fair Lady

  "I Could Have Danced All Night" (song) (1956)

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• Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.

  Samuel Beckett

  Sad, Frustration, Wings

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• The Poplar grows up straight and tall,
  The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

  Sara Coleridge

  Wall, Growing Up, Differences

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• The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when the sovereign assumed title to all wealth of the realm. It was the struggle for freedom from these encroachments of the state that chiefly marked the Nineteenth Century, and established everywhere constitutional regimes of limited authority. In the Twentieth Century, however, we have witnessed a gradual and almost unrestricted movement back to state authoritarianism, primarily in the economic sphere, accompanied by the spread of state monopoly and intervention.

  Elgin Groseclose

  Struggle, Sovereign, Spheres

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• For a parent, it's hard to recognize the significance of your work when you're immersed in the mundane details. Few of us, as we run the bath water or spread the peanut butter on the bread, proclaim proudly, "I'm making my contribution to the future of the planet." But with the exception of global hunger, few jobs in the world of paychecks and promotions compare in significance to the job of parent.

  Joyce Maynard

  Running, Jobs, Water

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• The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation.

  Nigel Lawson

  People, Done, Harmony

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• Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Religious, Art

  Tim F. LaHaye, Beverly LaHaye (1994). “A Nation Without a Conscience”

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• It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.

  Daniel Goleman

  Leadership, Passion, Enthusiasm

  Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2016). “Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence”, p.125, Harvard Business Review Press

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• I'm
  gonna spread out
  over America
  intrude
  my proud blackness
  all
  over the place.

  Mari Evans

  America, Proud, Blackness

  Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”

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• The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.

  David Blankenhorn

  Children, School, Men

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• Saying goodbye to Nina is both bittersweet and beautiful. After six-plus years together, the entire cast and crew of The Vampire Diaries has reached a level of closeness that I don't think any of us ever expected. Nina is excited to spread her wings, get some rest, travel the world and also take it by storm, and we support her a thousand-fold. We will miss Nina and the four hundred characters she played, but we look forward to the insane and exciting challenge of continuing to tell stories of our Salvatore Brothers and our much-loved and gifted ensemble.

  Julie Plec

  Beautiful, Goodbye, Brother

  "Vampire Diaries: Nina Dobrev Won't Return for Season 7" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 6, 2015.

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• ...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Truth, Writing, People

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• Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer seduced by the uncanny and the unearthly. In Lilith's Cave, he once again reaches into a magical cornucopia of folklore and fantasy and spreads before us, in enchanting language, the marvels and shocks of dybbuks, ghosts, demons, spirits, and wizards.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Christian, Brother, Caves

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• When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

  George Eliot

  Drama, Thinking, Foam

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6533, Delphi Classics

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• We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Principles, Deeds, Propaganda

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• Larry Flynt, running for governor of California. His goal - change our state bird to the spread eagle.

  Craig Kilborn

  Running, Eagles, California

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• There is no loftier mission than to approach the Godhead more nearly than other mortals, and by means of that contact to spread the rays of the Godhead through the human race.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Mean, Race, Rays

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• I keep a mountain anchored off eastward a little way, which I ascend in my dreams both awake and asleep. Its broad base spreads over a village or two, which does not know it; neither does it know them, nor do I when I ascend it. I can see its general outline as plainly now in my mind as that of Wachusett. I do not invent in the least, but state exactly what I see. I find that I go up it when I am light-footed and earnest. It ever smokes like an altar with its sacrifice. I am not aware that a single villager frequents it or knows of it. I keep this mountain to ride instead of a horse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Horse, Knowledge

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• My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses.

  Mason Cooley

  Loss, Effort, Losing

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• When the petals of the heart unfold, fragrance spreads across the valley.

  Amit Ray

  Heart, Valleys, Petals

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.49, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• The discussion which was made by Luther, Melancthon, and the other persons who preceded the Reformation, opened the eyes or the public; and they got rid of the delusions which had been spread by the Pope of Rome, and emancipated mankind from the spiritual tyranny they were under, and brought about the establishment of that religion which we now enjoy in this country.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Spiritual, Country, Eye

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