Quotes About Expansion

In 1858, when the emperor had two missionaries executed, France sent a fleet to seize the port of Danang. French naval forces took Saigon the following year and then forced the emperor to cede the three surrounding provinces to them. Over the four decades that followed, French forces captured Hue and Hanoi and steadily extended their power and influence until the French colonial government could officially declare in 1900 that the "pacification of Indochina" was complete.

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

Web 2.0 is our code word for the analog increasingly supervening upon the digital—reversing how digital logic was embedded in analog components, sixty years ago. Search engines and social networks are just the beginning—the Precambrian phase. "If the only demerit of the digital expansion system were its greater logical complexity, nature would not, for this reason alone, have rejected it," von Neumann admitted in 1948.

Consequently, if the church is going to leave a permanent mark on the community through a growing body of changed lives, it must constantly expand its leadership capacity, which entails both an increased number of leaders and an enhanced quality of leaders. Also

Are you satisfied with the nature of your church today but simply want your church to be bigger?

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

It would be useful to the Western world to realize that despite all the vicissitudes by which Russia has been afflicted since August 1939, the men in the Kremlin have never abandoned their faith in that program of territorial and political expansion which had once commended itself so strongly to Tsarist diplomatists." [519]

Government breeds more government, and a lobbying infrastructure to defend itself.

Over and over again in the study of the history of life it appears that what can happen does happen. There is little suggestion that what occurs must occur, that it was fated or that it follows some fixed plan, except simply as the expansion of life follows the opportunities that are presented. In this sense, an outstanding characteristic of evolution is its opportunism.["Meaning of Evolution," 1949, p. 160.]

What can I do for you?" Cookie narrowed his eyes into sly slits. "I have not seen you for so long. I miss my dear friends. I have come to spend time with you." "So Clan Nuan wants to expand its business to the Seven Star Dominion." Cookie's eyes widened in shock. He clasped his hands to his furry chest. "How could we possibly, even if we wanted to? That's Clan Sai territory. I am simply here on vacation. I work too hard. So hard.

your rank, the bigger the homestead. Despite the modern convenience of cities, almost all

Sa svakim novim jezikom ?ovek dobija nov život; jer ako znamo jezik jedne strane zemlje, možemo da upoznamo njenu književnost, njeno ponašanje i obi?aje...

Jer ako dodate samo malo na malo, i to ?esto ?inite, uskoro ?e malo postati veliko.

The colonization of space is the only possible salvation of Earth.

Why, they are so sure of themselves that they do not even hurry. They move slowly, phlegmatically; they speak of necessary centuries. They swallow worlds at leisure; creep through systems with dawdling complacence.

And then—U. S. Robots has interstellar travel, and humanity has the opportunity for galactic empire.

A civilization that is expanding through space will not need our few worlds and will probably be too intellectually advanced to feel the need to batter its way into hegemony here. If, however, we are surrounded by a more lively, a more vibrant civilization, we will wither away by the mere force of the comparison; we will die of the realization of what we have become and of the potential we have wasted.

The infinity of potential knowledge may be infinitely greater than the infinity of my actual knowledge.

Ellos se extenderán por la Galaxia a un ritmo que irá en aumento, sin la Tierra para mirar con nostalgia, sin la Tierra en forma de un dios, y establecerán un Imperio Galáctico. Era preciso que lo hiciéramos posible. Hizo una pausa, y su voz se debilitó al decir: «Robots e Imperio».

No puede esperarse que el Universo respete las emociones humanas. Envejecerá y morirá sin consideración alguna para con los lamentos del hombre, y sus componentes seguirán alejándose unos de otros en un proceso de eterna expansión incluso después de que las galaxias se hayan consumido hasta convertirse en cenizas de enanas blancas.

An invisible border arose between the parts of the house occupied by Esteban Trueba and those occupied by his wife. In response to Clara's imagination and the requirements of the moment, the noble, seigniorial architecture began sprouting all sorts of extra little rooms, staircases, turrets, and terraces...the big house on the corner soon came to resemble a labyrinth.

non cresce nulla nella penombra dei segreti, l'amore ha bisogno di luce e di spazio per espandersi

que sus espíritus se expandían, que los deseos y la memoria desaparecían, que se abandonaban en una sola inmensa claridad. Se abrazaron en ese extraordinario espacio reconociéndose, porque tal vez habían estado allí juntos en vidas anteriores y lo estarían muchas veces más en vidas futuras, como sugirió Tao Chi'en. Eran

El orden es un arte de los seres racionales, una batalla sin tregua contra las fuerzas centrífugas, porque la dinámica natural de todo lo existente es la expansión, la multiplicación y el caos.