Quotes About Expansion

In his scheme, Mercia would not simply dominate neighbouring kingdoms; it would annex them,

even a foundling like Scyld could quickly create a lordship that covered a large territory.

which stretched from the Irish Sea to the North Sea and was studded with forts along its seventy-three-mile length

north of the River Rhine and the River Danube, and west of the River Vistula.

There are essentially two ways to grow your firm; to add new practice areas in your city, or to move and expand into new cities.

Consider the sense of fulfillment in the leaders of a company that is expanding, achieving its mission, giving vocational opportunities to men and women who yesterday didn't have any. They are watching the miracle

The rapid global economic growth from the 1950s required ever-increasing quantities of raw materials and foodstuffs—metals, oil, coal, timber, fish, meat, and agricultural commodities of all types. Heightened demand for these pushed commodity frontiers ever outward, into parts of the world that were not yet wholly integrated into the modern economy.

falls, the jumble of trees stretched the two hours into three.

Colonization is the key to our race's survival. It's as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races.

Capitalism had made it to space and was doing reasonably well.

on the Internet, shelf space is infinite

Nothing is more important than an unread library.

There's a lot there to enlarge you. That's part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.

Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.

A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.

Be larger than your task.

There is a community of the spirit . . . Open your hands if you want to be held . . . Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking . . . Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.

Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they're very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind.

Pot enables you to think clearly without any fear or any limits. It's a mind-expander, which is part of why it's illegal and why drugs like Vicodin are legal.

The limits of your mind define the boundaries of your world.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a pretty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.