Spread Quotes - Page 39

• Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

  Francis Bacon

  Money, Littles, Use

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• The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect.

  Annie Besant

  Teaching, Heart, Illumination

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.738, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.

  Annie Besant

  Mean, Islam, Followers

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• But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.

  Tony Blair

  Fall, Keys, Order

  Tony Blair (2004). “Tony Blair in His Own Words”, Politicos Pub

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• Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

  Tony Blair

  Order, Today's World, Danger

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, delivered 17 July 2003, Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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• No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Mother, Children

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• I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don't have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels.

  Jo Brand

  Running, Cancer, Exercise

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• If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.

  Jeff Bridges

  Philosophy, Heart, Caring

  "Jeff Bridges: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2010.

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• A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.

  Harry Browne

  Political, Benefits, Libertarian

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• We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

  George H. W. Bush

  Love, Peace, Stars

  George H.W. Bush (2009). “Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

  Anne Campbell

  Pages, Students, Education Funding

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• Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.

  Tony Campolo

  Lying, Way, Internet

  "Why the Religious Right Will Dominate" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2010.

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• Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

  Jimmy Carter

  California, Political, Politics

  "As Jerry Brown Touts California In China, Its Citizens Pack Their Bags" by David Davenport, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 12, 2013.

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• The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

  Chanakya

  Education, Flower, Wind

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• True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Flower, Fall, Roots

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• We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Interest, Misfortunes

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• I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.

  J. Cole

  Heart, Messages, Message Of Hope

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• Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

  Noel Coward

  Witty, Writing, Caviar

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• If you're unable to catch it in time, the cancer can spread to the lymph nodes and at that point, the cancer is essentially incurable, but that doesn't mean your condition can't be improved.

  Len Dawson

  Cancer, Mean, Incurable Disease

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• Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

  Dorothy Day

  Philosophy, Sublime, Stronger

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• Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.

  Jared Diamond

  Literature, World, Disease

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• Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.

  Annie Dillard

  Fear, Flower, Rocks

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• The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Vaccines, Challenges, Hiv

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• If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Should Have, Retrospect

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• Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Skins, Lioness, Lions

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book V". Book by C. Robertson, 1668.

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