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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. -- Paul Theroux
Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor. -- George Washington
How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research. -- H. L. Mencken
Most decisions don't require extensive research. -- Gretchen Rubin
Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. -- Charles Babbage
The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises. -- Jason Statham
Niklas Zennstroem has a thorough background as a successful entrepreneur with extensive expertise in areas such as IT and online. -- Stefan Persson
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development. -- Rodrigo Rato
A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the actors are learning about the characters. -- Kim Cattrall
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security. -- James Madison
The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms. -- Walther Bothe
A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals. -- Robert M. Hutchins
Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe. -- Herbert Hoover
Founded when Abraham Lincoln believed education could lead the nation out of its darkest days, Ohio State now provides a powerful platform of interdisciplinary academic programs, world-class scholars, outstanding students, and extensive research capabilities. -- Gordon Gee
The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences. -- George Soros
I have an extensive library - every birthday when I was a kid my parents would ask what movie or book I wanted, so I have built up a big collection over the years. -- Mark Bridges
It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below. -- Francis Parkman
I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house. -- Jay-Z
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. -- Stephen Jay Gould
A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter. -- William Falconer
I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is going to be derived, and it's really very clear that they have long since established a reputation for excellence and integrity and objectivity. -- Al Gore
I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships. -- John Frusciante
I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs. -- Emilio Estevez
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets. -- Francis Crick
Engel & Volkers real estate advisors are specifically - and continuously - trained to understand and handle the needs of property transactions in the premium segments of their markets. We keep our shops small, with truly talented professionals who are choosing Engel & Volkers because of the extensive connections and support we provide them. -- Anthony Hitt
I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart. -- Chris Hardwick
From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled the heart to gaze on these barrens of Labrador. Indeed, I now dread every change of harbor, so horridly rugged and dangerous is the whole coast and country to the eye, and to the experienced man either of the sea or the land. -- John James Audubon
Mathematical Analysis is as extensive as nature herself. -- Joseph Fourier
Outstanding high school writers reported extensive summer reading -- Stephen D. Krashen
I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. -- Asger Jorn
I do quite extensive research for most of my novels. -- Sjon
The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale. -- Ellsworth Huntington
No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified. -- Robert Nozick
You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use. -- Steve Lacy
There are extensive contacts between Saddam Hussein's government and al Qaeda. -- Joe Lieberman
Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results. -- Roopleen
Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
One of my Secrets of Adulthood is: Most decisions don't require extensive research. -- Gretchen Rubin
We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports. -- Jerry Costello
We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe. -- Iyad Allawi
The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes. -- Michael Steinhardt
The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that. -- David Kay
For the Christian, worship is co-extensive with life. Life is already an expression of worship. -- Ravi Zacharias
Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale. -- David Harvey
Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive. -- Robert Staughton Lynd
One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights. -- Calvin Coolidge
Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality. -- Baltasar Gracian
We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Each of us is in reality an abiding psychical entity far more extensive than he knows. -- Frederic Myers
After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink. -- Iain Banks
The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature. -- Kenneth G. Wilson
The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting. -- Lord Byron
Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fundamental character of our faith means an extensive diversity is required not only within local community, but between communities. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world. -- John Palfrey
I need more personal time and, given my extensive work in health care, I want to pursue that interest further. -- Steven Burd
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Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin. -- Bruce Sterling
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading. -- Jane Austen
If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption. -- Thomas Jefferson
Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages. -- Samuel Johnson
John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. -- Gary Kleck
There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings. -- Alexandra Adornetto
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. -- Charles Caleb Colton
[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others. -- John Rawls
I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe. -- Romany Malco
Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement. -- Hal Abelson
On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. -- Edward Gibbon
The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies. -- Zaha Hadid
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. -- Sir Fulke Greville
Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born -- Mikhail Bakunin
I am getting on in years, and I have a very extensive IMDB page, and I cannot keep track of my own credits. -- Rob Lowe
True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance. -- Mark Thomas
After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967. -- Paul Nurse
Not surprisingly, extensive effort in Britain and America goes into finding tax shelter. the system is "efficient" for the shelter industry, not for the economy. -- Robert Kuttner
Make an extensive table of project 'deliverables'. Label one column 'as requested'. Create another column labeled 'could be'. Make each 'could be' wild and woolly! -- Tom Peters
Dr. John Nash Ott had discovered by 1987 that glass, artificial light sources, electricity and electronic systems were having extensive detrimental effects on plants, animals and humans. -- Steven Magee
A thought no less than a thing, an idea equally with an empire, is resolved into a complex of infinitely extensive relations between infinitesimally small parts. -- Sangharakshita
You might have extensive bouts of thinking exceedingly nasty thoughts, but because you are relating to those thoughts with mindfulness and compassion, that's considered good meditation. -- Sharon Salzberg
Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life. -- Samuel Johnson
An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery. -- John Keats
Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army. -- Kevin B. Rollins
Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army. -- Kevin B. Rollins
Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake. -- George Friedman
I've had plenty of jo-jobs. Nothing I'd call a career. Let me put it this way. I have an extensive collection of name tags and hair nets. -- Wayne Campbell
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California. -- John Moody
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California." -- John Moody
If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number. -- Alexander Hamilton
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California -- John Moody
Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. -- Sydney Smith
It's very clear, under anyone's scenario, that it's a massive, extensive undertaking regardless of where you might ultimately draw the line as to when the nuisance is abated. -- Jack McConnell
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble. -- Aldrich Ames
We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can ask other countries to create similar departments. -- Peace Pilgrim
Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles. -- Charles Scott Sherrington
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible. -- George Washington
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule." -- Robert W. Welch Jr.
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual. -- Bella Abzug
This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss. -- Gerard Arpey
After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion. -- Ken Starr
My extensive career, with its victories and defeats, championships, etc., has been well documented. My entire life has been focused on being the best race car driver I can be. -- Scott Pruett
A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all other blessings whatsoever that relate to this life. -- Francis Atterbury
Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants. -- Barton Gellman
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who had been raised in a religion with extensive morality. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive. -- Ingmar Bergman
Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time. -- David Fincher
We're collecting about 100,000 telomere lengths in saliva samples and then looking at how those relate to both the extensive longitudinal clinical records that Kaiser is collecting and the genome sequence variations. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad. -- Zac Goldsmith
You know what I find most shocking about the Vel'd'Hiv?" Guillaume said. "Its code name." I knew the answer to that, thanks to my extensive reading. Operation Spring Breeze, " I murmured. -- Tatiana de Rosnay
Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage. -- Kristin Hersh
Generally speaking, by the time a subculture such as steampunk secures the attention of major media, resulting in extensive coverage of the craze, said phenomenon is already on the way out. -- Paul Di Filippo
Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty. -- Joseph Paxton
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I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples. -- Miroslav Vitous
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can. -- Moby
Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that successful artistic creativity depends upon extensive visual exposure. -- Paul Laseau

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