“ When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life. ”
- Brenda Ueland- Copy
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“ Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. ”
- Thomas Robert Malthus- 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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“ I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.- Copy
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“ One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures. ”
- Josiah Gilbert Holland- Copy
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“ Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. ”
- Josiah Gilbert Holland- Copy
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“ Written in blood - and Bigotry may swell. The sail he spreads for Heav'n with blasts from hell! ”
- Edward Moore- 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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“ Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation — till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;And pyramids are pyramids in vales.Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. ”
- Edward Young- 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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“ A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result… ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. ”
- Clare Booth Luce- Copy
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“ Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. ”
- Karl Menninger- Copy
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“ The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough. ”
- Bill Maher- Copy
- 4K
“ Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple. ”
- Robert Ingersoll- Copy
- 1.4K
“ When a miracle happens, even if not to you, it's nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face. ”
- Hugh Elliott- Copy
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