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Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can… — Malcolm X
As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out. — Alexander Pope
Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure… — Malcolm Gladwell
Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women to re-negotiate our… — Clementine Ford
History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to… — Charles Darwin
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us… — John Burroughs
Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough. — Henry Beard
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. — James D. Watson
It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising… — W. E. B. Du Bois
By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim on the truth and instead… — Manohla Dargis
When you hold out for high standards, people are impressed-but they don't always like you for it. Not everybody will be on your side in… — Price Pritchett
Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world… — Plutarch
Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they… — John F. Kennedy
Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it. — Joyce Cary
People like to focus on a narrow stereotype, like if we didn't have football then we wouldn't have made it, ... The reality is, there… — Jonathan Vilma
I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the… — Unknown Author
I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance… — William O. Douglas
These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion… — Joan D. Vinge
I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose… — Blaise Cendrars
I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but… — Irving Penn
I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We need to remember that though we make our friends, God has made our neighbors – everywhere. Love should have no boundary; we should have… — Howard W. Hunter
On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut. — Neal A. Maxwell
I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when not engaged in… — Paul Feyerabend
Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions. — Theodor Herzl

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