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“But the novels of women were not affected only by the necessarily narrow range of the writer's experience. They showed, at least in the nineteenth century, another characteristic which may be traced to the writer's sex. In Middlemarch and in Jane Eyre we are conscious not merely of the writer's character, as we are conscious of the character of Charles Dickens, but we are conscious of a woman's presence of someone resenting the treatment of her sex and pleading for its rights.”

May Character Sex Novel Rights Century Conscious Range Characteristics Treatment Affected Jane Nineteenth Century Dickens Pleading Middlemarch

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences.”

“All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander or Ghengis Khan had never been born, some other individual would have filled his place and executed the design of the Hellenic or Mongolic expansion; but the Alexanders of philosophy and religion, of science and art, seem less expendable; their impact seems less determined by economic challenges and social pressures; and they seem to have a much wider range of possibilities to influence the direction, shape and texture of civilizations.”

“Each of us has the power and responsibility to heal ourselves, to be our own medicine man or woman. Awakening our innate powers of being, loving, knowing, seeing, and healing involves ongoing work at all levels and in all dimensions of our self. Exploring the range of rhythms and emotions, achieving insights into our conditioning and ego, moving through the energy levels of spirit – these are all activities to be integrated into our daily lives.”

Source: Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement

“[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.”

Giving Book Dream Certain Range Sensations Conception Gormenghast

Book:The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy

Source: The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy

“I'm actually a huge fan of digital as well. I appreciate how that technology opens the doors for filmmakers who never had access to that level of quality before. However, I do think film itself sets the standard for quality. You can talk about range, light, sensitive, resolution -- there's something about film that is undeniably beautiful, undeniably organic and natural and real.”

Thinking Wells Real Light Beautiful Film Natural Levels Quality Technology Doors Fans Huge Standards Appreciate Access Range Sensitive Filmmaker Digital Resolution

Author:J. J. Abrams

“I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.”

Would Be Political Nations Accepting Return India British Range Finest Asylums Footwear

Author:Julian Assange

“Hitherto without being; hidden away in the womb of eternity; possessed neither of thought nor feeling; remote from the range of human ken -- the Man bursts, in some unknown manner, the bars of non-existence, and announces with a cry the beginning of his brief life. In the night of non-existence there bursts forth also a little candle, lit by an unseen hand. Mark well its flame: for it is the life of that Man.”

Men Humans Wells Littles Feelings Hands Night Existence Cry He Man Eternity Mark Bars Range Flames Candle Possessed Unseen Lit Womb Non Existence Brief Life

Author:Leonid Andreyev

“We are entirely for the idea that Europe shall be free from nuclear weapons, from medium-range weapons as well as tactical weapons. That would be a real zero option.”

Wells Ideas Real Would Be Weapons Europe Nuclear Mediums Range Zero Nuclear Weapons Tactical Detente

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“Snow pursued by the wind is not wholly unlike a retreating army. In the open field it ranges itself in ranks and battalions; where it can get a foothold it makes a stand; where it can take cover it does so. You may see whole platoons of snow cowering behind a bit of broken wall.”

May Doe Whole Bits Behinds Fields Wind Broken Wall Army Snow Range Pursued Open Fields

Book:Can Such Things Be?

Source: Can Such Things Be?

“Along the western slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range . . . come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River . . .”

Looks Rivers Western Range Slopes Hysterical Oregon Coastal

Book:Sometimes a Great Notion

Source: Sometimes a Great Notion

“God is Infinite and His Shadow is also infinite. The Shadow of God is the Infinite Space that accommodates the infinite Gross Sphere which, with its occurrences of millions of universes, within and without the ranges of men's knowledge, is the Creation that issued from the Point of Finiteness in the infinite Existence that is God.”

Men Universe Space Existence Millions Creation Shadow Infinite Range Spheres Gross Accommodate Infinite Space

Book:The Advancing Stream of Life: Its Mystery, Meaning & Purpose

Source: The Advancing Stream of Life: Its Mystery, Meaning & Purpose

“Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on.”

Wells Courses Effort Ordinary Hundred Range Statistics Suburbs

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“Formerly when the Govardhanagiri (mountain) was raised aloft by a little boy, the gopis and gopalas realised that Krishna was the Lord. Now, it is not one Govardhanagiri, a whole range will be lifted, you will see!”

Littles Whole Lord Boys Mountain Raised Range Realised Little Boys Krishna

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination that looks forward to the making of a future, not backward to the insignia of the past. Their enterprise is underwritten by a Constitution that allows for the widest horizons of sight and the broadest range of expression, supports the liberties of the people as opposed to the ambitions of the state, and stands as premise for a narrative rather than plan for an invasion or a monument. The narrative was always plural; not one story, many stories.”

“Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the attenuating influence of money that's electronic and sex that's cyberspaced, untouched money and computer-safe sex, the convergence of consumer desire--not that people want the same things, necessarily, but that they want the same range of choices.”

People Want Desire Choices Culture Sex Influence Media Information Safe Computer Flow Investment Consumers Corporate Range Acquisition Nuance Convergence

Book:Underworld: Picador Classic

Source: Underworld: Picador Classic

“The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission.”

Pleasure Principles Claims Satisfaction Range Desirable Submission Deprived

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do so effectively only if he is not concerned with what is now politically possible but consistently defends the "general principles which are always the same." In this sense I doubt whether there can be such a thing as a conservative political philosophy. Conservatism may often be a useful practical maxim, but it does not give us any guiding principles which can influence long-range developments.”

“The best armor is to keep out of range.”

War Range Armor Degradation Italian Proverb

Author:Abraham J. Twerski

“I believe that no one who is familiar, either with mathematical advances in other fields, or with the range of special biological conditions to be considered, would ever conceive that everything could be summed up in a single mathematical formula, however complex.”

Believe I Believe Special Conditions Fields Complexes Familiar Mathematical Range Formulas

Author:Ronald Fisher

“Individual security bargains may be located by the process of security analysis practically at any time. They can be bought with good overall results at all periods except when the general market itself is clearly in a selling range for investors. They show up to best advantage during the years in which the market remains in a relatively narrow and neutral area.”

Years May Shows Individual Process Results Security Periods Advantage Areas Remains Selling Range Analysis Investors Bargains

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“I do think that's one of the reasons that acting appealed to me so much: the idea of letting go of control in a controlled environment. Being able to go through the range of intense emotions and jump off the cliff, metaphorically, but in a creative way, and in a way where the structure was really solid.”

Thinking Way Ideas Reason Able Acting Emotion Creative Environment Letting Go Structure Intense Range Controlled Cliffs Intense Emotions

Author:Carla Gugino

“You have to find actors who have the ability to display a wide range of emotion effectively. That's so much harder than it seems.”

Seems Actors Ability Emotion Harder Wide Range Display Range Of Emotions

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“A terrorist can attack at any time at any place using a range of techniques. It is physically impossible to defend at every time in every location against every conceivable technique of terrorism. Therefore, if your goal is to stop it, you cannot stop it by defense. You can only stop it by taking the battle to the terrorists, where they are and going after them.”

Ifs Goal Impossible Battle Terrorism Defense Technique Terrorist Range Location

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“The range of human skin colours is quite narrow when you think about it - and I do - and subtle - beige, pink, white, tan, taup.”

Thinking Humans White Skins Range Colour Subtle

Author:Peter Greenaway

“I really enjoy it - it's like a videogame on wheels. The GPS touch screen is one of the most entertaining things I've ever seen in a car. I still have a Range Rover that I don't drive much anymore, because I started feeling bad about it.”

Stills Feelings Enjoy Car Screens Range Wheels Entertaining Gps Feeling Bad Videogame Range Rover

Author:Mike Shinoda

“If, however, one factor is too successful, it will continue to be the winning factor regardless of the variation in the other factors over the range of variation in the conditions, and therefore will stifle the development of other advantageous factors until the conditions change sufficiently that it no longer is the winning factor. At this point, the whole population is ill prepared for the change, and may well perish entirely if the winning factor accidentally becomes the matching factor for a disease or a predator.”

Ifs Wells May Whole Winning Successful Conditions Development Disease Prepared Ill Population Factors Range Variation Predator Matching

Author:Erik Naggum

“Bedford definitely stands out as a community that's designed to appease to a broader range of budgets and lifestyles. The opportunity for a diverse neighborhood that encourages community activity and social interaction is what we feel makes Bedford a model community in this industry.”

Feels Opportunity Social Community Communication Industry Activity Models Lifestyle Range Budgets Neighborhood Interaction Diverse Standing Out Social Interaction Appease

Author:John Myers

“Snowfall is expected to considerably exceed the normal range, both in frequency and quantity.”

Normal Expected Range Quantity Exceed Frequency Snowfall

Author:Mark Oliver

“An artist is either good at color or good at value but rarely good at both. I focus on the tonal range, the dark-light effects, rather than the full color range of bright colors. I just don't know what to do with all those cadmiums.”

Knows Light Artist Values Dark Focus Effects Color Range Colour Bright Colors

Author:Thomas S. Buechner

“The most exciting part of finding out who we are is discovering our own uniqueness, who we are outside the box, beyond the categories in a Psychology 101 textbook. In our inimitable singularity, there is an infinite range of possibility that cannot be tied to any one description of what it means to be human or healthy.”

“The branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which they belong, and each subject of physical enquiry has its appropriate mathematics. In every form of material manifestation, there is a corresponding form of human thought, so that the human mind is as wide in its range of thought as the physical universe in which it thinks.”

Thinking Mind Humans Form Universe Subjects Materials Mathematics Various Wide Range Manifestation Branches Appropriate Human Mind Corresponding Human Thought Enquiry

Author:Benjamin Peirce

“The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.”

Two Facts Bigs Sides Answers Issues Depends Response Range Two Sides Right Answers Big Questions

Author:Linus Torvalds

“Unlike liberalism, with its fundamental belief in the long-range power of ideas, conservatism is bound by the stock of ideas inherited at a given time. And since it does not really believe in the power of argument, its last resort is generally a claim to superior wisdom, based on some self-arrogated superior quality.”

Believe Long Doe Ideas Self Lasts Belief Given Quality Authority Argument Claims Fundamentals Bounds Superiors Range Liberalism Resorts Conservatism Power Of Ideas

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“It's been very satisfying to design a range which is all about shape. It's not about what size you are, it's about how you can minimise or accentuate parts of your body with clothing. That's what we've created.”

Body Design Shapes Size Your Body Range Satisfying Clothings Accentuate

Author:Susannah Constantine

“The initial motive for developing APL was to provide a tool for writing and teaching. Although APL has been exploited mostly in commercial programming, I continue to believe that its most important use remains to be exploited: as a simple, precise, executable notation for the teaching of a wide range of subjects.”

Writing Believe Has Beens Important Use Simple Teaching Subjects Tools Remains Wide Developing Range Motive Programming Precise Initials

Author:Kenneth E. Iverson

“The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with the amount of vocabulary and the complexity of grammatical rules which the user must keep in mind. Economy of notation is therefore important.”

Mind Important Language Economy Amount Tools Treats Increase Range Complexity Users Topics Vocabulary Utility Decrease

Author:Kenneth E. Iverson

“Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming languages shows no more uniformity than mathematics. Nevertheless, programming languages do bring a different perspective. [...] Because of their application to a broad range of topics, their strict grammar, and their strict interpretation, programming languages can provide new insights into mathematical notation.”

“...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.”

“Significant changes in the growth rate of money supply, even small ones, impact the financial markets first. Then, they impact changes in the real economy, usually in six to nine months, but in a range of three to 18 months. Usually in about two years in the US, they correlate with changes in the rate of inflation or deflation." "The leads are long and variable, though the more inflation a society has experienced, history shows, the shorter the time lead will be between a change in money supply growth and the subsequent change in inflation.”

“If it weren't for Criminal Records, Wax-n-facts and other indie record stores I could have only sold my CD's at my shows and by mail order as an independent artist. The greatest stores that have character and include a much wider range of music of music are all independent, mom and pop stores.”

Ifs Character Facts Shows Artist Order Records Mom Independent Pops Stores Criminals Range Mail Cds Record Stores

Author:Shawn Mullins

“The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however.”

World Kind Existence Impossible Illusion Direct Range Materialism Actuality Ontology

Book:Physics and philosophy: the revolution in modern science

Source: Physics and philosophy: the revolution in modern science

“Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.”

Feelings Emotion Compassion Empathy Sorry Oneself Range Feeling Sorry Compassion And Empathy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone's mood and everyone's pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found... Angling's problems are never solved.”

Source: The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures

“My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.”

Social Emotional Offers Skills Training Adults Program Organization Including Injustice Range Emotional Intelligence Adult Education Training Programs Social Intelligence

Author:Daniel Goleman

“The source of their motivation ranges from what you might expect - from the seeking of money and publicity, to those who genuinely suffer from chronic personal problems and have fixated on me as the cause of their frustrations and failures.”

Problem Might Motivation Suffering Causes Source Buddhism Seeking Range Frustration Publicity Rama Personal Problems

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is well known that we fight in God's cause... but unless God helps us by a miracle the English, who have faster and handier ships than ours, and many more long-range guns, and who know their advantage just as well as we do, will never close with us at all, but stand aloof and knock us to pieces with their culverins, without our being able to do them any serious hurt. So we are sailing against England in the confident hope of a miracle.”

Knows Wells Long Helping Able Fighting Causes Hurt Known Pieces Serious Gun Advantage Miracle England Ships Faster Range Sailing Well Known God Help Aloof God Help Us

Author:Nicholas Rodger

“Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.”

Source: Life & Letters: The Spectator Columns

“If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.”

Ifs World Looks America Film Hate Cities Hollywood Developing Range Hollywood Movies

Author:Mark Steyn

“There is more to life than material well-being. Who would claim that the wholly wage-dependent family enjoys the dignity, the security, the range of choice and the autonomy (not to mention the leisure and freedom) of the family even partially supported by capital ownership?”

Wells Wisdom Choices Politics Enjoy Economy Security Materials Dignity Claims Well Being Range Liberalism Dependent Leisure Ownership Autonomy More To Life

Author:Louis O. Kelso

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