Extensive Quotes

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We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the… — Julio Cortazar
The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading. — Jane Austen
WennerstrÃ¶m was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminalâ€“it was business. — Steig Larsson
You know what I find most shocking about the Vel'd'Hiv?" Guillaume said. "Its code name." I knew the answer to that, thanks to my extensive… — Tatiana de Rosnay
There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . .… — William Makepeace Thackeray
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have… — Wendell Berry
-Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for… — Christine Feehan
Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would… — Lisa Kleypas
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a… — Iain Pears
Two students severely injured, you yourself covered in blood, a Reaper on the premises, a Fenrir wolf running around loose somewhere, and extensive property damage… — Jennifer Estep
There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings. — Alexandra Adornetto
Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Look,â€ I said, trying to reason with him despite extensive experience that this rarely worked. â€œThis isnâ€™t a great time. I have my inaugurationâ€”â€ â€œCoronation.â€… — Karen Chance
A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds… — Joe Queenan
Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above… — Joseph Paxton
The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I… — Abdoulaye Wade
Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils… — Benjamin Rush
On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. — Edward Gibbon

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