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As vessels starting from
ports thousands of miles
apart pass close to each other
in the naked breadth of the
ocean, nay, sometlmes even
touch in the dark.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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In the threads
breadth between
terror and
rapture lies
awareness.
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There is nothing more tragic
than to find an individual
bogged down in the length of
life, devoid of breadth.
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We are in this for the long
haul. This menu has great
breadth. And we have been ..
getting the response we
hoped for. We are seeing a lot
of people for the first time,
and then they are coming
back.
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THE HAUGHTY BREADTH OF
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I love thee to the depth and re
and height my soul can reach.
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Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the
earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger
to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
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One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a
finger's breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle
finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were
his forefinger.
(Diogenes Laértius)
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If you wish me well, do not
stand pitying me, but lend me
some succour as fast as you can;
for pity is but cold comfort when
one is up to the chin in water,
and within a hair's breadth of
starving or drowning.
Aesop
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She with all the charm of woman,
She with all the breadth of man.
(Alfred Tennyson)
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WHEN ALEXANDER SAW
THE BREADTH OF HIS
DOMAIN, HE WEPT FOR
THERE WERE NO MORE
WORLDS TO CONQUER
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The length of your
education is less important
than its breadth, and the
length of your life is less
important than its depth.
Marilyn vos Savant
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The artist dreams of works of real
breadth; but, limited by his
personality and the nature of his
medium, limited by inner
disturbances and loss of purpose,
he often works more narrowly
than he'd intended.
Eric Maisel
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"NARRATIVE IS LINEAR, BUT ACTION HAS
BREADTH AND DEPTH AS WELL AS HEIGHT AND
IS SOLID."
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A dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without
dimension; where length, breadth, and highth, And
time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And
Chaos — ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal
anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by
confusion stand.
(John Milton)
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We are pretty confident
that no other company
will be able to match
the breadth and depth
of this combination.
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Ilove thee to the
depth and breadth
andheight my soul
can reach
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad
with the haughty breadth of the
universe, old age flowing free
with the delicious near-by
freedom of death.
Edith Wharton
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I'M VERY EXCITED
BY THE BREADTH
AND NUMBER OF
IDEAS.
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. Votes: 1

Diogenes
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. Votes: 1

Irving Babbitt
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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. Votes: 1

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. Votes: 1

Thomas Carlyle
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We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life. Votes: 1

George A. Smith
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We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad. Votes: 1

Placido Domingo
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Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful. Votes: 1

Gary Ross
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. Votes: 1

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth. Votes: 1

Marilyn vos Savant
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. Votes: 1

Edith Wharton
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If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach. Votes: 1

Margaret Cho
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A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne. Votes: 1

Georges Clemenceau
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Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen. Votes: 1

Yochai Benkler
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure. Votes: 1

P. J. O'Rourke
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For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise. Votes: 1

Amy Bloom
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Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. Votes: 1

Albert Schweitzer
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Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to. Votes: 1

Bill Gates
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You have been called to be who you are - the whole luminous light. No one can dim your light when you are fully present to the depth and breadth of it. Votes: 1

Debbie Ford
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What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! Votes: 1

Alexander Herzen
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What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world. Votes: 1

John Charles Polanyi
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For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class. Votes: 1

John Sweeney
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It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the novelty of 21st-century science. These would include departments of biosocial science, network science, neuroeconomics, behavioral genetics and computational social science. Votes: 1

Nicholas A. Christakis
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Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey. Votes: 1

Venerable Bede
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The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I verifly believe it would be impossible throughout the length and breadth of Wiltshire to find a single bad cottage on any large estate, so well and so thoroughly have the landed proprietors done their work. Votes: 1

Richard Jefferies
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Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do. Votes: 1

Eric Holder
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A line is length without breadth. Votes: 0

Euclid
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Christian theology is a hair's breadth away from nihilism. Votes: 0

John Milbank
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The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor. Votes: 0

Mark Millar
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Pettiness separates; breadth unites. Let us be broad and big. Votes: 0

Emma Goldman
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Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer. Votes: 0

John Greenleaf Whittier
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Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance. Votes: 0

Ransom Riggs
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Let there be a wide breadth of possible ways to create. Votes: 0

Akiva Goldsman
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May peace-dreamers And peace-lovers Occupy the length and breadth Of the world. Votes: 0

Sri Chinmoy
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I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans. Votes: 0

Geoffrey S. Fletcher
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The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well. Votes: 0

Ernest Sosa
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A willing soul will keenly go the length, breadth and depth to fulfill the dream. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita
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The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community. Votes: 0

Anatol Rapoport
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It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed. Votes: 0

Jeff Bridges
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The breadth and depth of what dogs do for our happiness and longevity is pretty remarkable. Votes: 0

Marty Becker
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It's nice to make a project where you can show the full breadth of who you are. Votes: 0

Micah Lexier
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I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work. Votes: 0

Spike Lee
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The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one. Votes: 0

Mariella Frostrup
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I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing. Votes: 0

Susan Orlean
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Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man's breadth, with his heart. Votes: 0

Ilya Ehrenburg
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When God measures a church, He begins with its depth not its breadth, with its substance not its style. Votes: 0

Steve Lawson
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Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life. Votes: 0

Joseph Girzone
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If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. Votes: 0

Susan Cain
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The degree of your mindset will confine you - just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free Votes: 0

Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Every time I come, I'm still amazed at the breadth California has. Big Sur, Yosemite, the desert... I love it. Votes: 0

Theo James
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There is no greater prediction in the research of our levels of happiness than the breadth and depth of our relationships. Votes: 0

Michelle Gielan
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...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man. Votes: 0

H. G. Wells
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The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience. Votes: 0

Alfred Stieglitz
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We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made. Votes: 0

Carol Ann Tomlinson
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all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it. Votes: 0

Beryl Markham
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Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view. Votes: 0

C. F. Powell
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Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view. Votes: 0

Cecil Frank Powell
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If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields. Votes: 0

Stephen Jay Gould
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It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world. Votes: 0

Jacqueline Carey
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach Votes: 0

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density. Votes: 0

Louise Bogan
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Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth. Votes: 0

Blaise Pascal
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The measure of biblical truth that we have grasped is not determined by the size of our heads, but the breadth of our hearts. Votes: 0

Paul Washer
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Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche
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The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy. Votes: 0

Howard Berman
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Maybe people don't know I'm a news junkie? I watch and I tape a breadth of everything that's happening in the world, and that fascinates me. Votes: 0

Lorna Luft
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And one of the things that I've always loves about children is their vivid, unrestrained, and far-reaching imaginations - the depth and breadth of their creativity. Votes: 0

Kevin Clash
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There's a lot that I'd love to do. I haven't had a chance to really show the breadth of my talent, so I look forward to that. Votes: 0

Malik Yoba
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The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw overboard so we don't sink. Votes: 0

Dorianne Laux
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Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what they have in common. Votes: 0

Vestal McIntyre
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Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit. Votes: 0

Joshua L. Goldberg
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You know that it never has been easy Whether you do or do not resign Whether you travel the breadth of the extremities Or stick to some straighter line. Votes: 0

Joni Mitchell
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Now while Jesus wins in the end is certainly true, it is a rather terse and vague slogan and does not capture the full breadth of what eschatology means. Votes: 0

Michael F. Bird
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The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business. Votes: 0

Jean-Claude Juncker
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I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please anyone or to sell more easily. Votes: 0

Gustave Courbet
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I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth. Votes: 0

Ludwig van Beethoven
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I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings. Votes: 0

Karen Russell
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I think you always feel like you're about a hair's breadth away from being a bad actor anyway... It's not too hard to let the rope go slack, so to speak. Votes: 0

Alden Ehrenreich
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How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together. Votes: 0

Rohinton Mistry
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If vitality gives a man's perspectives color, if community bonds give them breadth, if awareness of the land makes them realistic, a deep sense of loyalty gives them personal meaning and integrity. Votes: 0

Harry Ransom
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I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear. Votes: 0

Philip Roth
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Generally, a rally will have staying power, technicians say, if, in addition to price movements, it has heavy trading volume and breadth, meaning that several stocks rise for each stock that falls. Votes: 0

Alex Berenson
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If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end. Votes: 0

Daniel Webster
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It used to be that companies with industrial economies of scale created business success. Now, success will come from the information economies of scale, either the ones with complete breadth, or complete depth. Votes: 0

Tucker Max
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World peace can blossom throughout the length and breadth of the world only when the world-peace-dreamers, world-peace-lovers and world-peace-servers desperately, sleeplessly and breathlessly long for the full manifestation of peace here on earth. Votes: 0

Sri Chinmoy
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The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss of purpose, he often works more narrowly than he'd intended. Votes: 0

Eric Maisel
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Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools. Votes: 0

Chris Gabrieli
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This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?

Henry David Thoreau
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If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

Aesop
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The present is an infinitesimal between two infinites. 'Tis a line (a thing without breadth or thickness) moving across the surface of Eternity . The present is no more, by the time you have said, This is present.

Henry Harland
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In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties.

Ralph Washington Sockman
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One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger.

Diogenes Laertius
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It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view of geological periods, geology from the point of view of astronomy.

Henri Frederic Amiel
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Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of object, meaning, and style. This, I fear, will remain a dream, but it is a good thing to bear the possibility occasionally in mind.

Paul Klee
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If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate.

Thomas Cogswell Upham
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Leonardo da Vinci was a man of regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind; and his name became so famous that not only was he esteemed during his lifetime, but his reputation endured and became even greater after his death.

Giorgio Vasari
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Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbeloving; Unless you can die when the dream is past- Oh, never call it loving!

Robert Browning
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Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon toward himself to recover his inner being.

Jean-Paul Sartre
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Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of her particular gender or race, what she’s actually having to assert is the breadth and depth of her own humanity.

Cheryl Strayed
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Avery fine city; the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in one city together? In a word,'tis the cleanest and beautifullest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted.

Daniel Defoe
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Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair's-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?

Molly Ivins
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Just to be clear, if, like Pat Robertson, you somehow missed all the evidence, all the research, the depth and breadth of all the knowledge garnered about HIV and AIDS over the past three decades, you cannot get HIV if you share towels,

Anderson Cooper
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Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of philosophic vision that Poincaré had, and none in his superior in the gift of clear exposition.

Eric Temple Bell
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The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth.

Rene Descartes
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Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Henry David Thoreau
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Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

Chester Barnard
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I'm very always saddened by the fact that people aren't buying newspapers. They may be reading the news online, but the depth, width, breadth of what we really need to understand in the world, to be informed and engaged, I think that's sometimes challenged.

Kathy Eldon
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Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, history, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, it is to be all but dead.

Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous knowledge, the horror- blackened memories which I have carried so long, were never meant to be borne by the human intellect.

Clark Ashton Smith
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It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired.

Henry David Thoreau
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Life everywhere is in vast and endless variety. So it is with life eternal, that gift of God, constituting, in its length and breadth and height and depth, the reward of the righteous. The penitent, dying thief is not going into heaven like the triumphant, dying Paul.

Herrick Johnson
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When you're photographing anything to do with war and conflict you're photographing something impossible. Everything you do is just clumsy and stupid and half witted. Because it is impossible to portray the full width and breadth of everything that you are up against.

Simon Norfolk
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Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation. - Seneca Falls Convention, 1848

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist.

Bill Drayton
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You see a fleeting perfection of form merging with a significant substance, and you make a clicking noise only a hair's breadth away. You have judged something, reported something, ostensibly truthfully... And when you made a clicking noise you said something eloquently if you are skilled.

Burk Uzzle
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When one past thought has ceased and a future thought has not yet risen, in that gap, in between, isn't there a consciousness of the present moment; fresh, virgin, unaltered by even a hair's breadth of a concept, a luminous, naked awareness? Well, that's what naturally peaceful awareness is.

Sogyal Rinpoche
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Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased academic specialization. . . . William's book combines real history and fictional constructs to tell a revealing story that makes us reconsider the meaning of familiar concepts.

Julian Baggini
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Sir,' said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater breadth and depth and fewer constraints.

Patrick O'Brian
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Length and breadth (20 quotes)

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth. Votes: 1 Marilyn vos Savant


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