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“But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.”

Government School Faith Nations Church Huge Creating Empty Luxury Odd Labour Expansion Ruined Choir Converting Heathen Church Choir

Author:Polly Toynbee

“Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.”

World President Democracy Rights Office Congress Agendas Expansion President Bush Aggravation Democracy Freedom

Author:Ginny Brown-Waite

“Some said America took a step forward electing a black president. In light of the unconstitutiona l expansion of powers, lack of transparency and fueling the fires of unrest that clearly hasn't been the case. Vote based on merits, not to fill a racial quota.”

Said Light America Black President Steps Cases Fire Vote Merit Expansion Transparency Steps Forward Unrest Quota

Author:Denzel Washington

“One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.”

People Knows Firsts Art Made Important Artist Awareness Art Is Aspect Rage Reactions Permanent Expansion Breakthrough Outrage

Author:William S. Burroughs

“A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.”

Want Kind Bigs Earth Universe Force Fire Sky Rocks Band Shakes Splits Expansion Bangs Spit Rock Bands

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“We have to create miracles. A miracle is not the intersession of an external divine agency in violation of the laws of physics. A miracle is simply something that is impossible from an old story but possible from within a new one. It is an expansion of what is possible.”

Stories Law Impossible Divine Miracle Physics Agency Expansion Violation Laws Of Physics

Author:Charles Eisenstein

“Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.”

Natural Ability Space All Things Down And Opening Rhythm Expansion Slow Down Joints Closing Space Between Deep Within Contractions

Author:Wayne Muller

“The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its elements is a very simple thing...What is necessary is faith. What is needed is the kind of faith which uniting a man to Christ, sets him on fire.”

Men Kind Christ Church Simple Fire Needed Elements Expansion Spontaneous Simple Things Uniting

Author:Roland Allen

“The technique that only uses explosion or expansion forces is lethal and hostile to the nature. This kind of technique must miss the natural counter force or the organic synthesis which is a negative form of quality - The Organic Vacuum - that reunites the polar and the increasing to the favour of the uprising of a new life form.”

Kind Use Form Force Nature Natural Quality Missing Negative Technique Expansion New Life Favour Hostile Explosions Vacuums Uprising Synthesis

Author:Viktor Schauberger

“Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.”

Years Home Past Nations Levels Records Economic Products Percent Expansion Gross Housing Over The Past Accounting New Home Gross Domestic Product

Author:Randy Neugebauer

“Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.”

Jobs Causes Company Economic Creation Cost Benefits Increase Productivity Consumers Goods Expansion Unemployment Globalization Manufacturing Goods And Services Job Creation Outsourcing

Author:Larry Elder

“God prunes us when He is about to take us into a new season of growth and expansion.”

Growth Seasons Expansion Prunes

Author:Christine Caine

“Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Would Be Spiritual Source Development Finals Commandments Expansion Choke Usefulness Unselfish

Author:Charles William Eliot

“In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry.”

World Way Firsts Humans Heart Two Film Form Human Beings Quality Theater Including Observation Latter Tenderness Pulling Expansion Being Human Relaxation Two Ways Contractions

Author:Nathaniel Dorsky

“The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million objects of it, situations, atmospheres, and variations. We have, first of all, to dispense with guilt concerning its expansion, then remain open to it's surprises, varied expressions, and mingle it with dreams, fantasies, and emotion for it to attain its highest potency.”

Firsts Facts Dream Form Lying Emotion Situation Accepting Millions Fantasy Objects Expression Highest Guilt Surprise Liberation Atmosphere Expansion Variation Facets Potency

Author:Anais Nin

“It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.”

Matter States Israel Expansion Status Quo Maintaining Maintaining The Status Quo

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“Some conservatives are surprised to find people on the Left supporting the war in Afghanistan. It's not surprising at all...It is hard for the government to prosecute a war and not expand...Conservatives may think they can support war and oppose the expansion of the state, but that is like trying to square the circle. What makes them think they can contain the expansion?”

People Thinking Trying May War Hard States Government Left Support Circles Squares Afghanistan Surprising Expansion

Author:Sheldon Richman

“Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.”

Government Political Scientist Oppression Having Fun Expansion Clergy

Author:Rudolph Rummel

“The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.”

World Humans Desire Rooms Week Media Achievement Presses Expansion Conquest Climax

Author:Karl Kraus

“Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.”

Children Has Beens Marriage Cutting Economic Taxes Essentials Elements Percent Gains Increase Rate Credit Penalties Expansion Legislation Dividends Brackets Capital Gains

Author:Roger Wicker

“Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.”

Men Mind Sometimes Doubt Talent Youth Capable Intelligent Rational Expansion Usefulness

Book:Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community

Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community

“The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time of our lives. . . . "Old age" should be a harvest time when the riches of life are reaped and enjoyed, while it continues to be a special period for self-development and expansion.”

“Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.”

World Humans Today Ancient Improvement Rome Expansion Ancient Rome

Author:Arthur Erickson

“Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion.”

Mean Jobs Force Economy Taxes Expansion Uncles New Job Uncle Sam

Author:Todd Tiahrt

“At the very center of our being is rhythmic movement, a cyclic expansion and contraction that is both in our body and outside it, that is both in our mind and in our body, that is both in our consciousness and not in it.”

Mind Body Energy Consciousness Movement Medicine Expansion Contractions Energy Medicine

Book:Spontaneous Healing: How to Discover and Enhance Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself

Source: Spontaneous Healing: How to Discover and Enhance Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself

“We live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time-honored sacred plants to explore our own consciousness. Yet surely the exploration and expansion of the miracle of our consciousness is the essence of what it is to be human? By demonstrating and persecuting whole areas of consciousness, we may be denying ourselves the next vital step in our own evolution.”

Ifs Humans May Whole Use Next Consciousness Steps Evolution Areas Essence Miracle Sacred Prison Plant Exploration Expansion Honored Demonstrating Use Of Time

Author:Graham Hancock

“I paid every effort to seek deregulation throughout FEDEX's start-up and expansion periods, because the biggest impediment to our growth was the government regulations that restricted new entry into the air cargo market.”

Government Growth Effort Air Periods Paid Regulation Expansion Entry Impediments Government Regulation Cargo Deregulation

Author:Frederick W. Smith

“I honor my importance and the importance of others. None of us is dispensable, none of us is replacable. In the chorus of life each of us brings a True Note, a perfect pitch that adds to the harmony of the whole. I act creatively and consciously to actively endorse and encourage the expansion of those whose lives I touch. Believing in the goodness of each, I add to the goodness of all. We bless each other even in passing.”

Believe Whole Perfect Honor Goodness Importance Harmony Add Notes Passing Passings Bless Expansion Chorus Dispensable

Author:Julia Cameron

“When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.”

Reality Company Strategy Investment Discussion Outcomes Investors Multiple Expansion Bankers Splitting Splitting Up

Author:Irene Rosenfeld

“It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise.”

Source: Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective

“When you get a range expansion, the market is sending you a very loud, clear signal that the market is getting ready to move in the direction of that expansion.”

Moving Clear Ready Range Loud Expansion Signals

Author:Paul Tudor Jones

“Relationships serve as a gateway to expansion, when there is no longer expansion, there is no longer a relationship.”

Expansion Gateways

Author:Ralph Smart

“The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.”

Politics Finals Credit Outcomes Expansion

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion.”

Needs Years May Reason Economy Increase Dollars Currents Primaries Pace Expansion

Author:Martin Feldstein

“The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.”

Would Be Numbers Keys Taxes Workers Lists Holiday Expansion Avoiding Extensions Recessions Payroll Payroll Tax

Author:Mark Zandi

“This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.”

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

“And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.”

Thinking World Greater Dangerous Western Pursuit Soviet Expansion Peril Western World Rendering Detente

Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick

“The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.”

Humans Facts Pain Life Is Religion Religious Vision Mass Optimism Misery Human Life Enjoyment Flash Expansion Persistent Occasional Lighting Transient

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.”

World Opportunity Felt Growth Cities Economic New York Chicago Expansion Really Great Great American American Cities Center Of The World

Author:John Green

“Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.”

Men Humans Reason Might Lying Belief Behinds Virtue Imagine Infinite Longing Vices Proof Horrible Excess Expansion Routes Alas

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What fairness means in practice is that third parties -- busybodies -- can prevent mutual accommodations by others.”

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.”

May Degrees Highest Humanism Expansion Renaissance Selective

Book:Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities

Source: Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities

“The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.”

Years Political Next Greater Expansion Disparity Upheaval

Author:Robert D. Kaplan

“Children, we should visit homes of the poor, orphanages and hospitals from time to time. We should take our family members along and offer assistance and look after the welfare of inmates. A word spoken with love and concern will give them more comfort than any amount of money. That will lead to the expansion of our hearts as well.”

Giving Should Wells Looks Heart Children Home Poor Amount Comfort Offers Members Concern Welfare Our Family Hospitals Expansion Assistance Family Members Inmates Orphanage

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“The borders of my bodyhood coincide with those of my openness to the world. They are in fact at any given time identical, though they are always changing with the fluid expansion and contraction of my relationships to the world.”

World Facts Given Understanding Borders Openness Expansion Identical Fluid Contractions

Author:Medard Boss

“Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.”

World Should Country Humanity Saws Objects Surface Other Countries Expansion

Author:Cecil Rhodes

“You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.”

Taxes Rate Expansion Revenue Raising Taxes

Author:George P. Shultz

“Louis Vuitton, the world's biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.”

World Ends Term Focus Products Planning Luxury Brands Preserves Expansion Exclusive Louis Vuitton

Author:Bernard Arnault

“It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.”

Years Firsts Universe Years Ago Sixty Expansion

Author:Michael Behe

“Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.”

Has Beens Care Pay Resources Available Health Care Expansion 1960s

Author:Phil Bredesen

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