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Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy. -- William A. Dembski
I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.' -- Bill Callahan
The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative. -- Paul Ricoeur
The story of gluten as it relates to the brain throws a wide net, so much more encompassing than the inflammation of a small section of the small intestine that characterizes celiac disease. -- David Perlmutter
During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known. -- Frederick Reines
It takes such a commitment of passion and energy and time, and it's all so encompassing to direct that you've got to see the bullseye, and you know you can hit it - or at least get awfully close. -- Jonathan Mostow
In days gone by, scientists would speak solemnly about our solar system's 'habitable zone' - a theoretical region extending from Venus to Mars, but perhaps not encompassing either, where a planet would be the right temperature to have liquid water on its surface. -- Seth Shostak
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else. -- Emma Watson
Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing him, and my other interests stemmed off of that. Bernstein led me to Sondheim and to Gershwin, and Sondheim led me to listening to Joni Mitchell. -- Jason Robert Brown
The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms. -- Hildegard of Bingen
I can't imagine a pain more all-encompassing than losing a child. -- Mary Tyler Moore
No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness. -- John Green
Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life. -- Neil Diamond
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. -- Kim Harrison
I don't have a driving desire to be all encompassing and world powerful or anything. -- Santiago Durango
Until you've been washed ashore you can't know how all encompassing the sea has become. -- John Maerz
Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem. -- David Abram
That same intense, overpowering, and all-encompassing love that you feel for your family can also be utterly terrifying. -- Mark Deklin
Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death. -- Max Muller
To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions. -- Amitai Etzioni
[God is] an all-encompassing love that is the source of all, the reality of all, and the being through which I am. -- Marianne Williamson
Our quest for a Digital India is all encompassing. It is going to touch your lives in several ways, making it easier. -- Narendra Modi
Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief. -- Kazuaki Tanahashi
He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world. -- Jean Cocteau
See the Divine in everyone. Eschew hatred and ill will. After years of devotion, many still lack a broad outlook and an all-encompassing love. -- Sathya Sai Baba
The trouble is that all-encompassing though information technology may be, it will always convey facts and numbers ... what it does not convey is perception, belief and motivation. -- John Harvey-Jones
Love is not a quality of 'God'- is it God's very Essence. It is the ALL-encompassing Reality of the Never-Ending Present. It is the Core of Your Existence. -- David Hawkins
When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite. -- Julie Bishop
No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created! -- Robert Muller
A true crisis. Class 3 outbreaks, more than any other, demonstrate the clear threat posed by the living dead. Zombies will number in the thousands, encompassing an area of several hundred miles. -- Max Brooks
True universalists are not those who preach global tolerance of differences and all-encompassing unity, but those who engage in a passionate struggle for the assertion of the Truth which compels them. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
The world is in need of an encompassing and of course, just and humane order in the light of which the rights of all are preserved and peace and security are safeguarded. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I love mathematics...principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given him his greatest game the encompassing of the infinite. -- Rozsa Peter
In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck me, dealt with man's problems in a sweeping, all-encompassing thrust. -- Francis Schaeffer
I can't think of a more philosophical time in a person's life than when they are children. It's the one time when ideas are really beautiful and amazing and all-encompassing. They are life. -- Scott Bradfield
I want to write and direct, but I don't think if I did it for 100 years I would ever come close to putting something out there that gives a feeling of all-encompassing and joyous. -- Daniel Radcliffe
Some people like when it rains a lot. Some people like sunshine. The idea that there's one, all encompassing afterlife is strange. It doesn't seem to make sense because we're all such different people. -- Drew Goddard
Who do you love? It's a question anyone should be able to answer. A question that defines a life, creates a future, guides most minutes of one's days. Simple, elegant encompassing. Who do you love? -- Lisa Gardner
An all encompassing uncertainty on the part of any person is either a sign of utter stupidity or extreme intelligence. Only the not so dumb, or the not so smart, are ever certain about anything. -- Derek R. Audette
Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again. Then you must have the self-control to forget about it. -- John Wooden
Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time. -- Scott Adams
Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations. -- Dambisa Moyo
[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents ... -- Dorothy Parker

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