Widespread Quotes
197 quotes by 183 authors
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If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.
— Howard Schultz
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There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science and…
— Edward Condon
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The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Wildlife of the world is disappearing... simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect
— Prince Philip
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Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress... Our only safety is in pursuing a steady course of firm restriction - and I…
— Nicholas Biddle
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Animal liberation is also human liberation. Animal liberationists care about the quality of life for all. We recognize our kinship with all feeling beings. We…
— Henry Spira
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Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.
— Henry Spira
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There exists in our society widespread fear of judging…[B]ehind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence…
— Hannah Arendt
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Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu carried a staff…
— Wangari Maathai
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It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.
— Ptolemy
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I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation…
— Ronald Reagan
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In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface, the…
— Italo Calvino
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Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement…
— H.G. Wells
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There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that's…
— Harry Browne
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Satan...[plans] to destroy liberty and freedom ~ economic, political, and religious, and to set up in place thereof the greatest, most widespread, and most complete…
— Heber J. Grant
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I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.
— Barbara Lee
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We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And which one of…
— Roger Caras
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The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.
— Murray Gell-Mann
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Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if…
— Auguste Comte
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