Expansion quotes
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It is eastwards, only and always eastwards, that the veins of our race must expand. It is the direction which Nature herself has decreed for the expansion of the German peoples. (7th February 1945)
-- Adolf Hitler -
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
-- Al Gore -
The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed
-- Alan Greenspan -
Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.
-- Albert Hofmann -
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A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.
-- Anais Nin -
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
-- Anais Nin -
Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democratic president has to do to finish Bush's hard work is to raise taxes to pay for it all.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
Over my lifetime, women have demonstrated repeatedly that they can do anything that men can do, while still managing traditional women's work at the same time. But the same expansion of roles has not been available to men.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter -
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The universe exists only through a constant dance of consistency and change. Through consistency, consciousness finds meaning; through change it finds stimulation and expansion. To find consistency within change is to embrace the unfolding flow.
-- Anodea Judith -
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.
-- Arthur Erickson -
From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds.
-- Arthur Koestler -
Louis Vuitton, the world's biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.
-- Bernard Arnault -
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Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.
-- Bob Hayes -
Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.
-- Brian Schmidt -
The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
-- C. Northcote Parkinson -
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The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery.
-- Carroll Quigley -
There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
-- Charles M. Schwab -
Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
-- Charles M. Schwab -
Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
-- Charles William Eliot -
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God prunes us when He is about to take us into a new season of growth and expansion.
-- Christine Caine -
I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.
-- Clare Short -
The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that.
-- David Gill -
Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.
-- David Harvey -
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The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time.
-- David Harvey -
Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
-- Dee Hock -
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.
-- Deepak Chopra -
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True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Praise requires constant renewal and expansion.
-- Doris Grumbach -
Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure and stopwatch management, and it also led to the requirement of interest-bearing currency to grow over time, the requirement of the expansion of our economy.
-- Douglas Rushkoff -
But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.
-- Everett Dirksen -
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Alms (is) for the purity of your soul, and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence.
-- Fatima bint Muhammad -
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.
-- Frank Waters -
Now I have demonstrated, that the convolutions of the brain are nothing but the peripheric expansion of the bundles of which it is composed; consequently the convolutions of the brain must be recognized as the parts in which the instincts, sentiments, propensities are exercised; and, in general the moral and intellectual forces.
-- Franz Joseph Gall -
One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is a relic of the violence of this explosion. This big bang idea seemed to me to be unsatisfactory even before detailed examination showed that it leads to serious difficulties.
-- Fred Hoyle -
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We cannot afford the EPA's continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses.
-- Fred Upton -
Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.
-- Friedrich Engels -
The adhesion of Coca-Cola is an affirmation of the expansion of the Global Pact and the importance it assumes worldwide, especially on the US market where more and more enterprises have decided to get involved.
-- George Kell -
You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.
-- George P. Shultz -
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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
-- Gerald Jampolsky -
Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem
-- Geraldo Rivera -
We live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time-honored sacred plants to explore our own consciousness. Yet surely the exploration and expansion of the miracle of our consciousness is the essence of what it is to be human? By demonstrating and persecuting whole areas of consciousness, we may be denying ourselves the next vital step in our own evolution.
-- Graham Hancock -
The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
-- Gutzon Borglum -
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After the United States gobbled up California and half of Mexico, and we were stripped down to nothing, territorial expansion suddenly becomes a crime. It's been going on for centuries, and it will still go on.
-- Hermann Goring -
Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God
-- Honore de Balzac -
When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.
-- Irene Rosenfeld -
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
-- Irving Babbitt -
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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
-- Jack Kemp -
Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.
-- Jane Addams -
And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.
-- Jeane Kirkpatrick -
One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.
-- Jeffrey Deitch -
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Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.
-- Jim Babka -
At the expansion stage, it's really easy to lose focus and chase the shiny object, instead of staying focused on what you're good at and the customers that are already successful.
-- Jim McDonough -
The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.
-- Joan Miro -
Inflation is really like drugging the baby universe with speed. The supercool union of the hitherto unfriendly gods was blessed by amphetamine, and this made the universe inflate rather than just expand. The early orgy of expansion in the universe comes to an abrupt end as soon as the supercooled particle stuff finally freezes.
-- Joao Magueijo -
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Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.
-- Joe Biden -
But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.
-- John Bruton -
Financial service providers act as the lubricating oil in the economy. They link consumers who want to invest their savings for a good return with companies who want to borrow on best terms for expansion.
-- John Bruton -
The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. ... The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.
-- John Carmack -
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Revenue has increased in this way is in no small measure, I am convinced, due to our low tax policy which has helped to generate an economic expansion in the face of unfavourable circumstances
-- John James Cowperthwaite -
A soul connection not only inspires us to expand, but also forces us to confront whatever stands in the way of that expansion.
-- John Welwood -
Whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they're lovable or detestable in a TV way - defined by a minimal set of traits that are endlessly reiterated and incapable of expansion or alteration, a fixed loop.
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum -
Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.
-- Joseph Sobran -
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A Universalist, your heart cannot but dilate, and your affections widen, until the divine expansion, like the ambient atmosphere, embraces every form, which is acted upon by an immortal spirit.
-- Judith Sargent Murray -
The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.
-- Kent Conrad -
I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.
-- Lance Armstrong -
Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.
-- Lewis H. Lapham -
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A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so remorsely into war and imperial expansion abroad.
-- Linda Colley -
The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
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But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion.
-- Martin Feldstein -
It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.
-- Michael Behe -
Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the state is profoundly and inherently anti-capitalist .
-- Murray Rothbard -
When you get a range expansion, the market is sending you a very loud, clear signal that the market is getting ready to move in the direction of that expansion.
-- Paul Tudor Jones -
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Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.
-- Phil Bredesen -
Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses.
-- Phil Bredesen -
Living in an orgy of unrestrained consumption and economic growth accompanied by population expansion that ignores the carrying capacity of local environments will lead to disaster
-- Phil Harding -
The deliberate expansion of means and methods does not automatically bring a new dimension of value.
-- Pierre Alechinsky -
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Relationships serve as a gateway to expansion, when there is no longer expansion, there is no longer a relationship.
-- Ralph Smart -
The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
-- Rand Beers -
Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.
-- Randy Neugebauer -
The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.
-- Rem Koolhaas -
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Be relentless in your pursuit for expansion.
-- Robert Greene -
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
-- Robert Toombs -
It's an expansion. And it's a stealth mechanism to put the tentacles of socialized medicine even deeper into society.
-- Rush Limbaugh -
Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.
-- Sarah Zettel -
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All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.
-- Sarah Zettel -
The expansion of choice has become an explosion of choice.
-- Sheena Iyengar -
Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love.
-- Sri Chinmoy -
The ideal protective layer for a lithium metal anode needs to be chemically stable to protect against the chemical reactions with the electrolyte and mechanically strong to withstand the expansion of the lithium during charge,
-- Steven Chu -
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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
-- Susan Sontag -
Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
-- Terence McKenna -
One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.
-- William F. Buckley, Jr. -
Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
-- William Winwood Reade -
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I refuse to be released on the basis of a 'condition for negotiations' and I will not accept the price for my freedom to be several meters of the land of Palestine, the land that we have fought for and been imprisoned for. I refuse to be free on the condition of the expansion of settlements. I refuse this offer, not even a single house for Zionist settlers will be built as the price of my freedom.
-- Ahmad Sa'adat -
When possums were introduced in 1837 to start a fur industry, no one predicted that these Australian neighbours would naturalize with destructive enthusiasm, wreaking havoc on gardens and bush alike. Up to 20 million possums a year were killed during the height of the fur trade, but this barely checked their rapid expansion.
-- Bee Dawson -
A group of protesters who are very unhappy at the rapid expansion of Starbucks have been repeatedly smashing the windows of a Starbucks store in Maine. Customers say it's been really inconvenient because, several times now, they've had to use the Starbucks across the street.
-- Conan O'Brien -
Globalization, meaning the global expansion of a market economy, is the only way we can guarantee widespread prosperity and peace. A lot of nations are just so small, that unless they can sell their goods and services on the market they're never going to develop, they don't have an internal market that's big enough to sustain anything.
-- Douglas Massey -
