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The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'T was one of my most intimate enemies. View quote
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Being an atheist means you have to realise that when you die, that really is it. You've got to make the most of what you've got here and spread as much influence as you can. I believe that you only live through the influence that you spread, whether that means having a kid or making music. View quote
Matthew Bellamy
From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time East and west of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surprise, And the word spread of Billy the Kid. View quote
Billy Joel
I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit. View quote
Mae West
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole. View quote
Joseph Addison
When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch. View quote
Arundhati Roy
How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind, for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought. View quote
Peter Medawar
We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I seek the spread of freedom and democracy in the way that satisfies God. [Americans] have planned and paved the ways for a long time, but it is God who is the real planner -- and the proof of this is the fall of the American twin towers[...]a miracle from God. (Muqtada Sadr)
We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. View quote
George H. W. Bush
We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end. View quote
Camille Paglia
I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws. View quote
Anne Sexton
Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices. View quote
Benjamin Graham
If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror. View quote
Hans Blix
I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media. Not that I cared very much. View quote
Hans Blix
Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge. View quote
W. Edwards Deming
Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority. View quote
John Fletcher
It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the economic short-circuiting-corruption and favoritism, mostly-endemic to the system. View quote
Iain Banks
Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy. (Kenneth Grahame)
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. View quote
J. Paul Getty
We commute through computers. Spirits stay mute while our ego spread rumors. We're survivalists turned to consumers. View quote
Talib Kweli
The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
Impart additional strength to our happy Union. Diversified as are the interests of its various parts, how admirably do they harmonize and blend together! We have only to make a proper use of the bounties spread before us, to render us prosperous and powerful. View quote
Henry Clay
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