Quotes About Expansion

Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice.

Isn't that what the Peerless is for? Anything too difficult for the home world?

walked a few paces away from her, then turned his whole body towards the south; in this flat desert, it wasn't impractical to triple his axial span. He

He was a bridger. He created you to touch other cultures. He wanted you to reach as far as you could.

Expansion would break up society "into a greater variety of interests and pursuits of passions, which check each other." The amalgamation of power would be prevented, making it unnecessary to take government action, either to regulate concentrated wealth or to repress movements organized in opposition to concentrated wealth. "Extend the sphere

Don't surround yourself with like-minded people. You'll get limited or radicalized.

implications are mind-boggling.

Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man's belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change. The Sunborn

Manifest Destiny, depicted in paintings as an angelic woman in a diaphanous white gown floating serenely, yet watchfully, over the immigrants heading west, was quite a bitch in reality. Anyone not under her wing and not part of the American vision was going to be trampled. Those outside the fold were manifestly destined to be nailed.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

His intelligence stretched her to the limits, and then changed what those limits were.

start across country to Erlond, where his own people had settled. In a still-forming colony like that one there would be many men with stories they didn't want told. That was how a people's boundaries expanded, how they moved on from starting points. Questions didn't get asked. You could make a new life. Again.

Lo que sabemos con certeza es que la expansión vertiginosa de Morena es la novedad mayor no sólo del sistema de partidos sino del ánimo cívico mexicano, que busca hoy lo que ayer repudiaba: un partido mayoritario, un gobierno grande, un presidente poderoso.

went across the more civilized Third

Cuanto más apunta la curva del flujo de información hacia una mayor conectividad, más rápido evolucionan los memes y más se expanden.

In short, the greatest gift of relationship proves to be that as the result of encountering each other, we are obliged to grow larger than we had planned.

I contradict myself? So, I contradict myself! I am infinite. I contain multitudes.

It's easy to get into a rut, which is simply a familiar pattern that feels comfortable. If you truly want to grow as a person and lead a successful life, you have to get out of the 'box.

The only thing that beats One is two, and three, and four.

Maybe you'll learn something about life beyond Batman.

Keep your small mind open," said Nana, wagging a crooked pinkie finger at Jannie. "That's if you ever want it to grow bigger and don't want to remain a small person all your life.

I believe that the federal government, like a raging river, has expanded upon the barriers and the boundaries of its banks, and unfortunately, it is flooding all of America with its encroachment.

Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.

Towards the end with Pantera - although I was never unhappy with the music we were making - it became one-dimensional, and we wanted to open things back up.