- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enlarging Quotes
Making the small large, on purpose.
These quotes trace 'enlarging' from a strange seventeenth-century theory of a tiny homunculus inside human development to the idea of enlarging the mind against blind obedience.
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- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. museums weren't looking at my paintings at all - they hated them, irredeemably. People metaphorically threw up when they saw my work! They thought I was enlarging comics, or just copying them.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
- Birth
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that was planted inside the womb. Development consisted of the miniature homunculus enlarging and passing through birth and on to maturity-just like inflating a balloon.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've almost been wiped out as a species many times, going back millions of years, and we've survived by reinventing ourselves and enlarging our circles of awareness, inventing new technologies and social structures.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020