“ Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. ”
- Lord Kelvin- Copy
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“ Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. ”
- Stephen Hawking- Copy
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“ Why haven't I the right to grow and expand like everybody else? ”
- Marilyn Monroe- Copy
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“ We are looking to expand in Russia but it will probably be through greenfield expansion. ”
- Alan Clark- Copy
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“ Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hands Who sayeth "a whole I plant, Youth shows but half; Trust God; see all nor be afraid. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ The weakness of all Utopias is this, that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones. They first assume that no man will want more than his share, and then are very ingenious in explaining whether his share will be delivered by motor-car or balloon. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth… ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested. ”
- Richard Branson- Copy
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“ Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged. ”
- James Ramsey- Copy
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“ Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ God sends children to enlarge our hearts, and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections. ”
- Mary Howitt- Copy
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“ A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope. ”
- Leigh Hunt- Copy
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“ All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
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“ Anything that enlarges the sphere of human powers and shows man he can do what he thought he could not do is valuable. ”
- Ben Johnson- Copy
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“ As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
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“ Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. ”
- Edmund Spenser- Copy
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“ Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. ”
- John Christian Bovee- Copy
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“ Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
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“ Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ”
- Paul Boese- Copy
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“ How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
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