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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. -- Gerald Jampolsky
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. -- Bruce Lee
Expansion is life. Love is expansion. Love is therefore the only law of life. -- Swami Vivekananda
Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out. -- E. M. Forster
Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death. -- Swami Vivekananda
In yoga practice, over time you use fewer muscles more efficiently. Expansion does require energy, but it should not require a great deal of effort. -- Brenda Strong
Expansion and modernization of the nation's productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive position of American industry An early stimulus to business investment will promote recovery and increase employment. -- John F. Kennedy
The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far from corrupting the craft, profits enhance it. Expansion drives diversity and diversity protects and strengthens our craft. -- Lachlan Murdoch
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. -- Deepak Chopra
Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion. -- Stephen Jay Gould
The expansion of choice has become an explosion of choice. -- Sheena Iyengar
There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us. -- Charles M. Schwab
The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that. -- David Gill
It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed. -- Michael Behe
Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds. -- Bob Hayes
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. -- Eric Hobsbawm
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. -- Anais Nin
Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today. -- Arthur Erickson
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state. -- Thomas Sowell
Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness. -- Joseph Lancaster
Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem -- Geraldo Rivera
The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years. -- Robert D. Kaplan
Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation. -- Larry Elder
Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005. -- Randy Neugebauer
And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
You should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia. -- Mario Andretti
For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world. -- Bill Frist
From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government. -- Chuck Todd
Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion. -- Roger Wicker
All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there. -- Sarah Zettel
But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion. -- Martin Feldstein
The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties. -- James McGreevey
Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations. -- Chuck Hagel
But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world. -- John Thorn
The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other. -- John Carmack
The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. ... The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other. -- John Carmack
Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could. -- Cecil Rhodes
Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That's not impossible. -- Noam Chomsky
Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion. -- Todd Tiahrt
What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era. -- Naomi Wolf
But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools. -- Polly Toynbee
Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale. -- Earl Browder
The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all. -- George Pataki
Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. -- Charles William Eliot
The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care. -- Kent Conrad
Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure and stopwatch management, and it also led to the requirement of interest-bearing currency to grow over time, the requirement of the expansion of our economy. -- Douglas Rushkoff
I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces. They are all pedestrian-friendly with shops, entertainment, restaurants and pubs within easy walking distance. -- Norman Foster
Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation for adult responsibility and public and private life. A program of children cannot be merely an adaptation of the program for adults, nor should it be curtailed during periods of depression or emergency expansion of other programs. -- Grace Abbott
If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form. -- Stephen Hawking
The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things. -- Rajneesh
The expansion is inevitable. -- Esther Hicks
Praise requires constant renewal and expansion. -- Doris Grumbach
Be relentless in your pursuit for expansion. -- Robert Greene
Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion. -- Ludwig von Mises
Life is nothing but the expansion of love. -- Sri Chinmoy
You defended your Medicaid expansion by invoking God. -- Megyn Kelly
Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. -- William Winwood Reade
Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness. -- Terence McKenna
Monetary expansion is a massive scheme of hidden redistribution. -- Murray Rothbard
The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment. -- Ludwig von Mises
Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information. -- Dee Hock
The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time. -- David Harvey
The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery. -- Carroll Quigley
Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating. -- Brian Schmidt
Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness. -- Albert Hofmann
Within the silence, expansion, and sustained day by day concentration, I grow permeable. -- Jane Hirshfield
I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce. -- Jack Kemp
A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything. -- Taika Waititi
Every mind needs friendly contact with other minds, for food of expansion and growth. -- Napoleon Hill
Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses. -- Phil Bredesen
What payoff are you getting for remaining stuck at this point in your expansion? -- Julia Cameron
I don't know why anyone would want to study the expansion of the universe. -- Ronald Reagan
For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether? -- Khalil Gibran
You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion. -- George P. Shultz
What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion. -- Ludwig von Mises
I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity -- Roy Barnes
I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity. -- Roy Barnes
Alms (is) for the purity of your soul, and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence. -- Fatima bint Muhammad
The constant expansion has diluted the talent. Other than that, it's still the same game. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. -- Simone de Beauvoir
The deliberate expansion of means and methods does not automatically bring a new dimension of value. -- Pierre Alechinsky
The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply. -- James Surowiecki
The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story. -- Khaled Hosseini
Every healthy VÃ¶lk sees the right to expansion of its living space as something natural. -- Adolf Hitler
I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats. -- Norm Cash
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. -- Bruce Lee
The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction. -- Rem Koolhaas
I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion. -- Lance Armstrong
The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion. -- Benjamin Graham
Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence. -- Jim Babka
Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another. -- Henry Ford
The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world. -- George W. Bush
It is so exhilarating to realize that this is all here for our expansion and for our pleasure. -- Esther Hicks
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. -- Susan Sontag
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history. -- Frank Waters
And in self-giving we become really happy. Real humility is the expansion of our consciousness and our service. -- Sri Chinmoy
God prunes us when He is about to take us into a new season of growth and expansion. -- Christine Caine
Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care. -- Phil Bredesen
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history. -- Frank Waters
[Egon] Bahr even said: If Russia agreed to the NATO expansion, he would never come to Moscow again. -- Vladimir Putin
We must be guided by faith. If we are guided by fear we lock ourselves and our expansion. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility. -- Dick Morris
One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Relationships serve as a gateway to expansion, when there is no longer expansion, there is no longer a relationship. -- Ralph Smart
An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support. -- Petra Kelly
Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others. -- Jane Addams
she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience. -- Anais Nin
It's an expansion. And it's a stealth mechanism to put the tentacles of socialized medicine even deeper into society. -- Rush Limbaugh
Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. -- Deepak Chopra
With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way. -- Sergei Lavrov
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. -- Robert Toombs
Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression. -- Rudolph Rummel
We have not been successful in deterring the growth or expansion of any terrorist group that we've been fighting. -- Jill Stein
The Free People brand plans to drive growth on three different fronts: product expansion, geographic expansion and improved marketing. -- Richard Hayne
It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion. -- David Ben-Gurion

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