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Quotes About Expansion

Perhaps the story now goes on beyond the book.
~ Cornelia Funke
The second bomber went after a Tennessee Republican state senator who'd voted down the Medicare expansion, despite his campaign promise to make sure that "every Tennessean who wants insurance will get insurance.
~ Cory Doctorow
If we go beyond what we once thought was our perimeter, then all limits are open to question.
~ Craig Lambert
A GIANT heart Needs a GIANT life! GIANT arms Can hold a world! Let me lead a GIANT'S life! No little steps, no holding back! A GIANT'S way, a GIANT'S track! Let my mistakes Be GIANT ones! For I can't live in little worlds! I need the space to run my fill I need to jump from hill to hill And if you take my woods from me I'll wander out into the sea And try to find another world So I can live a GIANT'S life!
~ Cressida Cowell
As we actually taste the flavor of what he's teaching, we begin to see that it's not proverbs for daily living, or ways of being virtuous. He's proposing a total meltdown and recasting of human consciousness, bursting through the tiny acorn-selfhood that we arrived on the planet with into the oak tree of our fully realized personhood. He pushes us toward it, teases us, taunts us, encourages us, and ultimately walks us there.
~ Cynthia Bourgeault
When we break through the barrier and drop off all limitations, we are no longer concerned with conceptual distinctions.
~ D?gen
the self in the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole of an amoeba seeking to nourish and inform its own nothingness by ingesting new objects in the world but, like a vacuole, only succeeds in emptying them out.
~ Walker Percy
Because the self in the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole of an amoeba seeking to nourish and inform its own nothingness by ingesting new objects in the world but, like a vacuole, only succeeds in emptying them out.
~ Walker Percy
From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.
~ Walt Whitman
O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.
~ Walt Whitman
See ever so far, there is limitless space outside of that, Count ever so much, there is limitless time around that. -from Song of Myself
~ Walt Whitman
If he breathes into anything that was before thought small, it dilates with the grandeur and life of the universe.
~ Walt Whitman
Crezco por igual en las regiones vastas y en las estrechas, crezco por igual entren los negros y los blancos.
~ Walt Whitman
He also noted that the veins of humans narrow with age, but the springs and rivers of the earth continually enlarge their channels.30
~ Walter Isaacson
People don't invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exists.
~ Walter Isaacson
The company began attracting influential new investors.
~ Walter Isaacson
the importance of spawning new
~ Walter Isaacson
markets rather than merely chasing old ones.
~ Walter Isaacson
The genius of Albert Einstein, who added a 'cosmological constant' to his equation for the expansion of the universe but then retracted it, may be vindicated by new research."58
~ Walter Isaacson
There were at least two possible explanations for the fact that distant stars in all directions seemed to be flying away from us: (1) because we are the center of the universe, something that since the time of Copernicus only our teenage children believe; (2) because the entire metric of the universe was expanding, which meant that everything was stretching out in all directions so that all galaxies were getting farther away from one another.
~ Walter Isaacson
Scientists who proclaim that space comes to an end somewhere are under some obligation to tell us what lies beyond it.
~ Walter Isaacson
In 1938, the Army Air Corps had 1,773 planes and trained 500 pilots. In 1942, it built 47,000 new planes and trained 30,000 pilots. By the following year, planes were being churned out at a rate of 8,000 a month.
~ Walter Isaacson
His theory indicated that the universe would have to be either expanding or contracting, not staying static. According to his field equations, a static universe was impossible because the gravitational forces would pull all the matter together.
~ Walter Isaacson
When the Third Reich swallowed one Central European country after another, this was attributed to bluff and bluster.
~ Walter Lord