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Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self. — Sarah Manguso
The challenge of yoga is to go beyond our limits - within reason. We continually expand the frame of the mind by using the canvas… — B.K.S. Iyengar
In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act. — Geoffrey Wood
Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing… — John Kenneth Galbraith
I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds. — Russell Conwell
[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement. — Jonah Goldberg
Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater… — Bell Hooks
Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all… — Wendell Berry
The case may very well be that Congress is willing to restrict campaign contributions because it has these privileges. It is true that incumbents normally… — Gordon Tullock
One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five… — Henry David Thoreau
Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequent centuries could… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches… — Abbott Lawrence Lowell
[B]y far the larger number of the dreams... occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of fasting, united, possibly,… — Anna Kingsford
The thing I got to thinking about,' he said, 'is--what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless?… — Warren St. John
People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they're really proud of, that they'll fight for,… — Howard Schultz
The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a… — Aristotle
Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all… — William Hazlitt
I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem. — Bette Davis
We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves. — Gary Saul Morson
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. — Samuel Johnson
Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in… — Gunter Grass
The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage. — Margaret Fuller

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