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• We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Hard Work, Law, People

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• The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It deter- mines what people will talk and think about-an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.

  Theodore White

  Party, Thinking, Tyrants

  Theodore Harold White (1973). “The making of the President, 1972”, Scribner

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• Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.

  Ali Vincent

  Life Changing, Decision, Everyday

  Ali Vincent (2009). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.127, Rodale

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• The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Horse, Distance, Dark

  The Young Duke bk. 2, ch. 5 (1831). The Oxford English Dictionary has this as its earliest citation for the term dark horse, and Disraeli is frequently considered to be the coiner. However, an earlier usage is in the Edinburgh Advertiser, 24 Sept. 1822: "What is termed an outside or a dark horse always tells well for heavy betters."

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• Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it is false. There are usually a large number of implied assumptions that are far from obvious if you think about them sufficiently carefully.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, Small Numbers, Assumption

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1964.

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• Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Cutting, Reality, Doe

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• In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture.

  Stephen Hunter

  Eye, Technique, Directors

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• Norman is a very up-close, personal, character drama and I'd like to do something more zoomed out, a little more pastoral, some sweeping epic. I'd like to try something different.

  Andrew Bird

  Drama, Character, Epic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the late 60's I was enrolled at Occidental College majoring in philosophy and taking several studio art classes, but I dropped out. It was a very confusing time with the war in Vietnam and the social changes sweeping the nation.

  Stephen Beal

  Art, Philosophy, War

  Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. Novemeber 19, 2010.

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• You aren't advertising to a standing army; you are advertising to a moving parade. Three million consumers get married every year. The advertisement which sold a refrigerator to those who got married last year will probably be just as successful with those who'll get married next year. An advertisement is just like a radar sweep, constantly hunting new prospects as they come into the market. Get a good radar and keep it sweeping.

  David Ogilvy

  Moving, Successful, Army

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• ...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.

  Booker T. Washington

  People, Criticism, Would Be

  Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth (2017). “100$ REWARD ON MY HEAD – Powerful & Unflinching Memoirs Of Former Slaves: 28 Narratives in One Volume: With Hundreds of Documented Testimonies & True Life Stories: Memoirs of Frederick Douglass, Underground Railroad, 12 Years a Slave, Incidents in Life of a Slave Girl, Narrative of Sojourner Truth...”, p.1065, e-artnow

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• Within two weeks of moving into the White House, Obama signed a series of executive orders championed by union bosses. The new rules authorized sweeping powers for the labor secretary that essentially blackball nonunion contractors targeted by labor organizers and blacklist nonunion employees in the private sector from working on taxpayer-funded projects.

  Michelle Malkin

  Moving, Order, Two

  "Big Labor's Investment in Obama Pays Off" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 13, 2009.

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• Going forward, anything that Richard [Ayoade] asks me to do, I would be so honoured... even if it's sweeping the street because he's such a great person and a great friend.

  Yasmin Paige

  Would Be, Great Friend, Great Person

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• [Ginsburg's] feminism was very sweeping and very ambitious and very consistent. Justice O'Connor had a more case-by-case, pragmatic approach to her feminism. They were not entirely the same, [but] I think that they shared the most important thing, which is the belief that they were worthy and that therefore other women were worthy.

  Linda Hirshman

  Thinking, Justice, Feminism

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The vast majority of us don't want to face the fact that we're in the middle of a sweeping social revolution. In sex. In spiritual values. In opposition to wars no one wants. In opposition to government big-brotherhood. In civil rights. In basic human goals. They're all facets of a general upheaval.

  Johnny Carson

  Spiritual, Sex, War

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• I read of the revivals of the past, great sweeping revivals where thousands of men were swept into the Kingdom of God. I read about Charles G. Finney winning his thousands and his hundreds of thousands of souls to Christ. Then I picked up a book and read the messages of Charles G. Finney and the message of Jonathan Edwards on 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,' and I said, 'No wonder men trembled; no wonder they fell in the altars and cried out in repentance and sobbed their way to the throne of grace!'

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Book, Winning, Past

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• "The only reason some of us are not exiled or thrown into prison is simply because we do not preach as fervently and as sternly as did Paul, John, Peter R.A. Torrey and others. This modern "santa claus" religion that is sweeping country today is not the religion Jesus taught and John practiced."

  Oliver B. Greene

  Country, Jesus, Religion

  Oliver B. Greene (2015). “The Revelation: Verse by Verse Study”, p.25, Ravenio Books

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• Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.

  Sappho

  Heart, Mountain, Uprooting

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• The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it:; once you can honestly say, "I don't know", then it becomes possible to get at the truth.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Ideas, Long, Niche

  "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 18, p. 230, 1985.

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• Whatever it is that occurs at death, I believe it deserves to be called a miracle. The miracle, ironically, is that we don't die. The cessation of the body is an illusion, and like a magician sweeping aside a curtain, the soul reveals what lies beyond.

  Deepak Chopra

  Lying, Believe, Miracle

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• The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.

  Ken Livingstone

  Issues, Perfect, Environmental

  "Bush Will Doom Us Says London Mayor". www.aljazeera.com. November 19, 2003.

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• the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in the forests of America.

  Richard Brautigan

  Light, White, America

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway. Rather, the car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.

  Fritz Todt

  Distance, Moving, Men

  "Technologies of Landscape: From Reaping to Recycling". Book by David E. Nye, 2000.

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• ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Character, Epic, Fantasy

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• The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness.

  Maya Angelou

  Night, Hair, Dresses

  Maya Angelou (2010). “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes”, p.3, Vintage

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