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• After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Unique, People, World

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• With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together.

  Nile Rodgers

  Opportunity, Careers, People

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• We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.

  Michael Oxley

  Home, Technology, Order

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• We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Spring, Sunday, Air

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1963). “The earth is the Lord's, and The Sabbath”

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• All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Grows, Seeds

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.118

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• Everyone knows about Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Now help me spread the word about Giving Tuesday!

  Bill Gates

  Friday, Monday, Tuesday

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• That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Moving, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

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• You can clear the land, plow the field, spread the fertilizer, and plant the corn. But you cannot make it rain. You cannot prevent an early frost. You cannot determine exactly what will happen in your life. The rain may or may not fall, but one thing is certain: you will get a harvest only if you planted something in the field. It's important to do everything in our power to ensure our success, but we also need to let the universe take its course.

  Melody Beattie

  Rain, Fall, Land

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Practicals, Effects

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1894). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit”

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• A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Land, Tyrants, Thrones

  "Antisemitism: Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism". Book by Hannah Arendt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 127, 2012.

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• Although I have made a fortune in the financial markets, I now fear that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the spread of market values into all areas of life is endangering our open and democratic society. The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

  George Soros

  Believe, Enemy, Society

  "The Capitalist Threat". www.theatlantic.com. February 1997.

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• One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Science, Light, May

  Christiaan Huygens (2015). “Treatise on Light”, p.33, Christiaan Huygens

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• That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of itself according to the ardor it finds, so that as charity spreads farther the eternal good increases upon it,and the more souls there are who love, up there, the more there are to love well, and the more love they reflect to each other, as in a mirror.

  Dante Alighieri

  Mirrors, Light, Race

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• The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves. ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians that spreads understanding and breathes life into ideas both old and new.

  William Thurston

  Math, Ideas, Community

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• Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun.

  Robert Hunter

  Spring, Night, Wings

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• The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

  Will Durant

  Civilization, History, Ruins

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The Lessons of History”

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• Without followers, evil cannot spread.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspiration, Evil, Followers

  "Fictional character: Mr. Spock". "Star Trek" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1968.

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• It hurts when it don't last, no easy way saying bye. So I'mma spread my wings and head for the sky.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Hurt, Sky, Mma

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• All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary line from protozoan to Spinoza any less certain? That also may be true. We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred.

  Edward Abbey

  Brother, Men, Secret

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.109, Macmillan

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• My central arms control objective has been to reduce substantially and ultimately to eliminate nuclear weapons and rid the world of the nuclear threat. The prevention of the spread of nuclear explosives is to additional countries is an indispensable part of our efforts to meet this objective. I intend to continue my pursuit of this goal with untiring determination and a profound sense of personal commitment.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Determination, Commitment

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• We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.

  Kathy Acker

  Cracks, Rotten, World

  Kathy Acker (1996). “Pussy, King of the Pirates”, Acker, Kathy

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• What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.

  Hippocrates

  Men, May, Accounts

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• Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a period, geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact — that mystery of mysteries — the first appearance of new beings on this earth.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Ocean, Space

  Charles Darwin (2006). “Voyage of the Beagle”, p.548, National Geographic Books

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• The command to the Twelve to go out and proclaim the Good News is also valid for all Christians, though in a different way.... the Good News of the kingdom which is coming and which has begun is meant for all people of all times. Those who have received the Good News and who have been gathered by it into the community of salvation can and must communicate and spread it.

  Pope Paul VI

  Christian, People, Community

  Catholic Church. Pope (1963-1978 : Paul VI), Pope Paul VI (1976). “On evangelization in the modern world: Apostolic exhortation Evangelii nuntiandi, December 8, 1975”

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• If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

  Bertrand Russell

  Eugenics, Black, Population

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Impact of Science On Society”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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