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The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act… — Thomas Jefferson
Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips,… — Martin Luther
Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition — Henry Mintzberg
Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication… — Heinrich Hertz
He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for it-a gate made… — Thomas Adams
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow… — William Penn
Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column. — Friedrich Schiller
The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded. — Sathya Sai Baba
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all things, see to… — Wallace D. Wattles
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the… — Louis Pasteur
Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty,… — Luis Walter Alvarez
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for… — Booker T. Washington
There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous, less constant, less… — Ralph Bunche
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we… — Samuel Johnson
As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use… — Jawaharlal Nehru

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