Quotes with broad

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  • Thomas Hardy If all hearts were open and all desires known - as they would be if people showed their souls - how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Antoine Lavoisier It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous Last century we needed lawyers; this century we need big, broad coalitions. When extremists decide to attack all our communities, they must hope that there will be infighting. But we have stood all for one and one for all. That is how we will win.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Benazir Bhutto Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • A. Philip Randolph Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Ben Shapiro Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-Hispanic. That's why Obama ignores the broad support for an immigration plan that would provide border security once and for all and then deal with the illegal immigrants who live here.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Walt Whitman Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Caroline Knapp On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Ban Ki-moon One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Jean Paul Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Stokely Carmichael Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Andrew Johnson Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Bill Maris Say you have cancer - you have this broad thing we call cancer; we're going to irradiate you and pump this poisonous material into you and hope more of the bad stuff dies than the good. That is going to seem so medieval when we can fix it on a genetic level, and Foundation Medicine is the first step to diagnosing it on a genetic level.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Bob Harper The CrossFit program is broad, general and inclusive, and most of all, the movements can be scaled down to any level of athlete. Just watch what I do with it on 'The Biggest Loser.'
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Camille Paglia The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Adam Arkin The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Brad Stone There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on same-day distribution or broad selection or low prices. All that said, there are advantages that accrue to the largest player, so I don't see much in the way of Amazon slowing down.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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