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Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day. -- Charles Churchill
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. -- Alexander Pope
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale. -- Bayard Taylor
Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads. -- William Cowper
Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song. -- Vanilla Ice
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads. -- Maynard James Keenan
When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads. -- Ron Paul
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny. -- Trent Lott
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. -- Robert Smithson
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits. -- Plutarch
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions. -- Chanakya
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny. -- Nancy Gibbs
A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power. -- Harry Browne
If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads. -- Jeff Bridges
Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief. -- Jane Leavy
Mitt Romney privatizes the gains from his enterprises, but spreads the costs to the rest of us. Seems that 'free stuff' is in the eye of the beholder. -- Jennifer Granholm
But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order. -- Tony Blair
As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language. -- Edward Sapir
I do live a weirdly divided life, because I'm not a Hollywood superstar, I don't live on Malibu Beach, I don't do massive 'OK!' spreads, I don't go to premieres and parties that much. -- James Purefoy
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. -- Barack Obama
When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When SARS spreads, focus on unknown respiratory diseases. This approach helps to quell public concern, but it's a hugely inefficient way to deal with future risks. -- Nathan Wolfe
Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980. -- Barton Gellman
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry. -- Alice Walker
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives. -- Arthur C. Brooks
Everything's changed. The technology is the big thing changing now, the way movies like 'Alice' or 'Avatar' are made. And technology on the other side, the audience side. Word spreads so fast now on a movie, with the Internet, and piracy is something coming down the line like in the music industry. -- Richard D. Zanuck
Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken. -- Douglas Rushkoff
I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something you're really proud of and you spend a lot of time creating sometimes doesn't go anywhere, and something that you kind of do on the side, on a lark, ends up getting shared and passed around and having this big impact. -- Jonah Peretti
Because I am married to a surgeon, I do Botox and I do some fillers. But I truly believe that the best beauty secret is happiness. I know that sounds sappy, but I'm just telling you it comes from the inside and spreads out. The happier and more satisfied you are living your life, the better you will look. -- Heather Dubrow
Quell rebellion before it spreads. -- Vespasian
Conviction's contagious as virus spreads. -- Toba Beta
Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly. -- John Maynard Keynes
In summer the empire of insects spreads. -- Adam Zagajewski
Yo Mama's like mustard, she spreads easy. -- Oliver Oliver Reed
Genuinely ubiquitous computing spreads like warm Vaseline. -- William Gibson
See how the skilful lover spreads his toils. -- Benjamin Stillingfleet
Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings. -- Samuel Beckett
I'm interested in how the Internet spreads information. -- Cass Sunstein
An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard. -- Savielly Tartakower
Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty. -- Walter Darby Bannard
If someone spreads hate then they're not your religious leader. -- Stephen Colbert
The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger. -- Ryan Holiday
Modern art spreads joy around by its color, which calms us. -- Henri Matisse
Hate is a cancer that spreads one cell at a time. -- Dave Pelzer
It's the internet like the flu - it just spreads like crazy. -- Jack Welch
If you kiss someone on the back of the neck, it spreads. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you kiss someone on the back of the neck, it spreads. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley. -- Amit Ray
When the petals of the heart unfold, fragrance spreads across the valley. -- Amit Ray
Rumors spread faster than news and news spreads faster than the happenings -- Amit Abraham
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly. -- Sappho
Rose never propagandize its fragrant, but its own fragrance spreads through its surrounding. -- Sukarno
Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall -- Sara Coleridge
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Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes. -- Seth Godin
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains. -- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew. -- Thomas Carlyle
Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide. -- Emily Dickinson
It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips. -- Fred Allen
God spreads grace like a 4-year old spreads peanut butter-He gets it all over everything. -- Mark Lowry
Christianity spreads through the joy of disciples who know that they are loved and saved. -- Pope Francis
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies. -- Mahatma Gandhi
And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss. -- Ken Bruen
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All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous. -- Thomas Carlyle
What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people. -- Franz Kafka
When gratitude replaces judgment, peace spreads throughout your body, gentleness embraces your soul, & wisdom fills your mind. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea. -- Walt Whitman
Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit. -- Nancy Kress
Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion. -- Samuel R. Delany
What does peace do? Peace blossoms. What else? Peace spreads. What else? Peace illumines. What else? Peace fulfils. -- Sri Chinmoy
The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures. -- Garth Nix
True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads. -- Charles Studd
Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises. -- Rabindranath Tagore
God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days. -- William Butler Yeats
Narcissism really spreads its wings and soars on twitter. It's like watching a dragon hatch and learn to fly. -- Dave Anthony
Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes. -- Aeschylus
Foreign aid is important. If it's done right, it spreads America's influence around the world in a positive way. -- Marco Rubio
A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails. -- Rick Yancey
Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men. -- E. B. White
Lies are like poison. If you get a little bit in your system, it spreads until it destroys you -- Nikki Rae
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once. -- Honore de Balzac
one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started -- Jean Cocteau
As the world gets smaller and communication spreads further and further out there, you try to find the right balance. -- Lars Ulrich
All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars? -- Ken MacLeod
Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that. -- Lee Goldberg
Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write? -- Rainer Maria Rilke
God the Father's a deep root; the Son's the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance -- Tertullian
Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o'daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea. -- Robert Burns
I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty. -- Erich Maria Remarque
The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum. -- John Stott
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. -- Will Durant
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There are all kinds of friends you make in life... But there's something different about someone who spreads their wings with you. -- Mary E. Pearson
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm going to be kind, because then it all just kind of spreads, and the world is a little nicer out there. -- Ellen DeGeneres
The light of compassion opens the petals of the heart. When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley. -- Amit Ray
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction. -- Chanakya
One smile heals the planet because it spreads like a virus from one to the next without care for the perfect environment. -- Monika Zands
Among women, guilt spreads with the rampant fury of bubonic plague. ... I used to feel guilty if the cat had matted fur. -- Sue Thoele
Love is the most powerful healing energy. Everything you do with love spreads healing. So feel it,be it, and spread it. -- Abhishek Kumar
The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the west... -- Robert Loveman
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity. -- Chinua Achebe
Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the fragrance spreads, and the bees come. -- Amit Ray
The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. -- Joseph Addison
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it -- George Bernard Shaw
True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
He spreads his fingers over my heart, like he's holding it, like it belongs to him, the hard-fought-for territory he's won fair and square. -- Rick Yancey
Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. -- Hans Arp
The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers. -- Roger Mudd
The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone. -- Rumi
The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance. -- Emile Zola
There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a barbarian. -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey. -- Douchan Gersi
A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor. -- Friedrich Schiller
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Spiritual joy is devotion, it's like a virus you know? It's a benevolent virus, but it spreads. It's infectious. Ram Dass was like a mentor in those days. -- Surya Das

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