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Quotes About Expansion

Libraries are not made, they grow.
~ Augustine Birrell
The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.
~ James Joll
The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.
~ Arnold Toynbee
Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.
~ Christopher Hill
The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.
~ George Takei
First there was just my home. Now I have to deal with the whole world.
~ Mukhtar Ma'i
For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.
~ Roy Barnes
I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.
~ Marc Andreessen
Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.
~ Paul Rogat Loeb
I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just want to keep expanding as an artist and really try new things.
~ Amy Adams
I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.
~ Pranab Mukherjee
The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as long as we might hope.
~ Vince Cable
We explore because we are human and we want to know. I hope that Pluto will help us on that journey.
~ Stephen Hawking
The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make it fully self sufficient so we can expand it across Bangladesh.
~ Muhammad Yunus
The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.
~ William McKinley
My vision is a future for humanity where we will be completely free to pursue activities outside of our planet.
~ Franklin Chang Diaz
We are all capable of much more than we think we are.
~ Laozi
Samadhi is not going to take away your humanity. It will give it to you. You will become more cosmopolitan, more conscious, and more infinite.
~ Frederick Lenz
Belonging to humanity is a great thing for us, and I think the schools can do it. So I think we can look after the quality of education on the school even as we expand the availability of schooling.
~ Amartya Sen
I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.
~ Ann M. Martin
I want to make a vending machine that sells vending machines. It'd have to be real big.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
~ Mary Oliver