Widespread Quotes
197 quotes by 183 authors
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We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.
— Joe Baca
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Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
— Bob Barr
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
— John Berger
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot…
— Conrad Black
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The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they…
— Tony Campolo
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My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story…
— Graydon Carter
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It used to be you needed to have a very large sophisticated state before you could even have a nuclear weapon... Now the technology is…
— Dick Cheney
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Cannabis never killed anybody and it's use is widespread. You can"t stop it. The law defeats itself because all the efforts to stop drugs coming…
— James Pickles
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Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
— Shirley Chisholm
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When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps…
— Adolf Hitler
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Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit.…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic zone,…
— John Perry Barlow
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After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the…
— Johannes Kepler
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Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods of the earth…
— Pope John Paul II
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For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the…
— Ellsworth Huntington
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A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
— J. G. Ballard
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Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically…
— Edmund Pellegrino
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Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess hazardous materials and…
— Kofi Annan
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Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new…
— Peggy Noonan
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A state does not simply fall apart as a result of depression... [Weimar Germany] was not destroyed by economic depression or widespread unemployment, though these…
— Sebastian Haffner
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