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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. -- Diogenes
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. -- Irving Babbitt
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. -- Thomas Carlyle
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life. -- George A. Smith
We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad. -- Placido Domingo
Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful. -- Gary Ross
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth. -- Marilyn vos Savant
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. -- Edith Wharton
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach. -- Margaret Cho
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne. -- Georges Clemenceau
Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen. -- Yochai Benkler
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise. -- Amy Bloom
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. -- Albert Schweitzer
Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to. -- Bill Gates
You have been called to be who you are - the whole luminous light. No one can dim your light when you are fully present to the depth and breadth of it. -- Debbie Ford
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! -- Alexander Herzen
What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world. -- John Charles Polanyi
For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class. -- John Sweeney
It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the novelty of 21st-century science. These would include departments of biosocial science, network science, neuroeconomics, behavioral genetics and computational social science. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey. -- Venerable Bede
The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I verifly believe it would be impossible throughout the length and breadth of Wiltshire to find a single bad cottage on any large estate, so well and so thoroughly have the landed proprietors done their work. -- Richard Jefferies
Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do. -- Eric Holder
A line is length without breadth. -- Euclid
Christian theology is a hair's breadth away from nihilism. -- John Milbank
The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor. -- Mark Millar
Pettiness separates; breadth unites. Let us be broad and big. -- Emma Goldman
Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance. -- Ransom Riggs
Let there be a wide breadth of possible ways to create. -- Akiva Goldsman
May peace-dreamers And peace-lovers Occupy the length and breadth Of the world. -- Sri Chinmoy
I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans. -- Geoffrey S. Fletcher
The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well. -- Ernest Sosa
A willing soul will keenly go the length, breadth and depth to fulfill the dream. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community. -- Anatol Rapoport
It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed. -- Jeff Bridges
The breadth and depth of what dogs do for our happiness and longevity is pretty remarkable. -- Marty Becker
It's nice to make a project where you can show the full breadth of who you are. -- Micah Lexier
I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work. -- Spike Lee
The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one. -- Mariella Frostrup
I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing. -- Susan Orlean
Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man's breadth, with his heart. -- Ilya Ehrenburg
When God measures a church, He begins with its depth not its breadth, with its substance not its style. -- Steve Lawson
Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life. -- Joseph Girzone
If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. -- Susan Cain
The degree of your mindset will confine you - just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
Every time I come, I'm still amazed at the breadth California has. Big Sur, Yosemite, the desert... I love it. -- Theo James
There is no greater prediction in the research of our levels of happiness than the breadth and depth of our relationships. -- Michelle Gielan
...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man. -- H. G. Wells
The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience. -- Alfred Stieglitz
We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it. -- Beryl Markham
Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view. -- C. F. Powell
Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view. -- C. F. Powell
If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields. -- Stephen Jay Gould
It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world. -- Jacqueline Carey
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density. -- Louise Bogan
Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth. -- Blaise Pascal
The measure of biblical truth that we have grasped is not determined by the size of our heads, but the breadth of our hearts. -- Paul Washer
Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land. -- Henry David Thoreau
A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy. -- Howard Berman
Maybe people don't know I'm a news junkie? I watch and I tape a breadth of everything that's happening in the world, and that fascinates me. -- Lorna Luft
And one of the things that I've always loves about children is their vivid, unrestrained, and far-reaching imaginations - the depth and breadth of their creativity. -- Kevin Clash
There's a lot that I'd love to do. I haven't had a chance to really show the breadth of my talent, so I look forward to that. -- Malik Yoba
The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw overboard so we don't sink. -- Dorianne Laux
Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what they have in common. -- Vestal McIntyre
Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit. -- Joshua L. Goldberg
You know that it never has been easy Whether you do or do not resign Whether you travel the breadth of the extremities Or stick to some straighter line. -- Joni Mitchell
Now while Jesus wins in the end is certainly true, it is a rather terse and vague slogan and does not capture the full breadth of what eschatology means. -- Michael F. Bird
The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please anyone or to sell more easily. -- Gustave Courbet
I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings. -- Karen Russell
I think you always feel like you're about a hair's breadth away from being a bad actor anyway... It's not too hard to let the rope go slack, so to speak. -- Alden Ehrenreich
How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together. -- Rohinton Mistry
If vitality gives a man's perspectives color, if community bonds give them breadth, if awareness of the land makes them realistic, a deep sense of loyalty gives them personal meaning and integrity. -- Harry Ransom
I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear. -- Philip Roth
Generally, a rally will have staying power, technicians say, if, in addition to price movements, it has heavy trading volume and breadth, meaning that several stocks rise for each stock that falls. -- Alex Berenson
If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end. -- Daniel Webster
It used to be that companies with industrial economies of scale created business success. Now, success will come from the information economies of scale, either the ones with complete breadth, or complete depth. -- Tucker Max
World peace can blossom throughout the length and breadth of the world only when the world-peace-dreamers, world-peace-lovers and world-peace-servers desperately, sleeplessly and breathlessly long for the full manifestation of peace here on earth. -- Sri Chinmoy
The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss of purpose, he often works more narrowly than he'd intended. -- Eric Maisel
Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools. -- Chris Gabrieli

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