"Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind,……" — Elizabeth Drew
"Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation."
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13 Quotes by Elizabeth Drew
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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
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Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore…
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It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.
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The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the…
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The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital…
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Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
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The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
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The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.
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How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a…
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We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have…
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Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.
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Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
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Size and synergies between the different segments of the company matter. As far as we are concerned, the Internet is…
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But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a…
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The continuing, direct operation of the Holy Ghost on those who are called to be God's children implies, in fact,…
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The Chinese side stands ready to work with Morocco to consolidate and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and continuously push forward…
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Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they…
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Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole…
— John T. Scopes
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It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise.
— Deborah Eisenberg
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Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of…
— Oswald Chambers
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The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of…
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Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base.
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The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the…
— James A. Baldwin
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What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless…
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