Quotes with scope

  • You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.

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  • B. R. Ambedkar In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Don DeLillo As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.
    (2005)
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • St. John Chrysostom Charity is the scope of all God's commands.
    St. John Chrysostom
    Early Church Father and archbishop
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  • Charles Horton Cooley Each man must have his ''I''; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Gail Hamilton Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
    Gail Hamilton
    American writer (1833 - 1896)
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  • Atom Egoyan I suppose I had these concerns but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Ben Affleck I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Joseph De Maistre In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Karl Mannheim Only when we are thoroughly aware of the limited scope of every point of view, are we on the road to the sought-for comprehension of the whole.
    Karl Mannheim
    Jewish-Hungarian sociologist (1893 - 1947)
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  • Bob Menendez Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Selma James Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants - even women! - new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.
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  • Walter Benjamin The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Archibald Macleish The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bruce Henderson The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.
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  • William E. Gladstone There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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