Quotes with far-reaching

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  • Thomas Jefferson Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Aldous Huxley Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Samuel Johnson Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Amartya Sen While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • Bill Condon While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Bayard Taylor With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bernard Malamud Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Bernard Malamud Without heroes, we're all plain people, and don't know how far we can go.
    The Natural p. 154.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Campbell Brown Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Paula Nelson Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics.
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  • Germaine Greer Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Alan Watts You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Bill Parcells You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Bonnie Wright You can be on holiday abroad, in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere, and someone will recognise you, and you just think, How far has this spread?
    How Bonnie charmed Harry, Charlotte Methven, Daily Mail, 12th December 2009
    Bonnie Wright
    English actress, model and activist (1991 - )
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