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For all of us here, for the millions who have sent us, for the whole two billion members of the human family, our land is now, more than ever before, the last best hope on earth. And I know that we can, and I know that we shall began [sic] here the fuller and richer realization of that hope — that promise of a land where all men are truly free and equal, and each man uses his freedom and equality wisely well.
hubert humphrey— Address to the Democratic National Convention (July 14, 1948), Convention Hall, Philadelphia.
This book is therefore consecrated to the deeper and fuller study of that linguistic world in which the Hebrew Bible is set.
james barr— Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament, p.304
…the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.
john calvin— Page 66 (Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life)
Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
w. e. b. dubois— Last message to the world (written 1957); read at his funeral (1963)
With Christ, and like Christ, and not love our friends! Impossible! when He loves them so tenderly. Going into the fuller presence of Him whose very name is "Love" can never make our hearts less loving.
arthur kenney— P. 305. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
[T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle of the forces of light in his native place and time. Much as he may long for the opportunity of fuller self- expression in a happier world, he knows that for him self-expression is impossible save in the world in which his mind is rooted. The individual in whom the will for the light is weak soon persuades himself that his opportunity lies elsewhere.
Olaf Stapledon— Part V The Reign of Darkness, 3. Diabolic World Empire.
We should not be forced to give up our children's U.S. citizenship so that we can get a fuller measure of self-government.
— U. S. Senate, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings on sovereignty under S. 472 (June 23, 1998)
The Sphere would willingly have continued his lessons by indoctrinating me in the conformation of all regular Solids, Cylinders, Cones, Pyramids, Pentahedrons, Hexahedrons, Dodecahedrons, and Spheres: but I ventured to interrupt him. Not that I was wearied of knowledge. On the contrary, I thirsted for yet deeper and fuller draughts than he was offering to me.
edwin abbot— Chapter 19. How, Though the Sphere Showed Me Other Mysteries of Spaceland, I Still Desired More; and What Came of It
I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory Wait God's will.
charlotte brontë— (Referring to marriage). As quoted in Moglen, Helen (1984) Charlotte Brontë: the self conceived, University of Wisconsin Press, p. 235
The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the old ideas. It dispersed many difficulties, harmonized many discords, and yea, more! It shewed the substance of Universe as a simplicity of Light and Life, manners to compose atoms, themselves capable of deeper self-realization through fresh complexities and organizations, each with its own peculiar powers and pleasures, each pursuing its path through the world where all things are possible.
aleister crowley— Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli
Existence continues at death for the believer in a fuller, more fulfilling way. Death should hold no fear for the believer.
paul enns— p. 35 (Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011))
Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk.
Kenneth Grahame— Ch. 2 (The Reluctant Dragon)
In the light of fuller day, Of purer science, holier laws.
Charles Kingsley— On the Death of a certain Journal, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Ring in the nobler modes of life / with sweeter manners, purer laws", Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, Stanza 4.
As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many other articles in the scheme of Christianity, greatly disfiguring and depraving it; I shall show, in a fuller manner than I mean to do with respect to any other corruption of Christianity, that it has no countenance whatever in reason, or the Scriptures; and, therefore, that the whole doctrine of atonement , with every modification of it, has been a departure from the primitive and genuine doctrine of Christianity.
joseph priestley— On conventional doctrines of Jesus Christ's atonement for sins, in Part II : Opinions Relating to the Doctrine of Atonement, Introduction
Chittaranjan Das: I believe that Bengal has a message for the world. Keshub Chunder Sen delivered that message. Again and again that message has been delivered on the banks of the Ganges, and again and again will that message be delivered and redelivered in a fuller and yet fuller manner till we listen, till the world listens.
keshub chunder sen— Speech delivered at the Overtoun Hall, Kolkata in January 1917.
The older I grow and I now stand upon the brink of eternity the more comes back to me that sentence in the Catechism which I learned when a child, and the fuller and deeper its meaning becomes, "What is the chief end of man? To glorify God and enjoy Him forever."
— Thomas Carlyle, p. 402. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Knowing that the life that remained to him could not be of great length, he said, “I try to increase it in weight, I try to arrest the speed of its flight be the speed with which I grasp it. ... The shorter my possession of life, the deeper and fuller I must make it.”
— pp. 37-38 (How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (2010))
With Christ, and like Christ, and not love our friends! Impossible! when He loves them so tenderly. Going into the fuller presence of Him whose very name is "Love" can never make our hearts less loving.
— P. 305. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
There is no darker page in the annals of English jurisprudence than that which contains the law relating to bills of sale, for, recent as it is, it is illogical, uncertain, and fuller of doubts and difficulties than any other part of our law.
— Cave, J., In re Yarrow Bank (1889), L. J. R. 59 Q. B. D. 20; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 19.
With Christ, and like Christ, and not love our friends! Impossible! when He loves them so tenderly. Going into the fuller presence of Him whose very name is "Love" can never make our hearts less loving.
— Arthur Henry Kenney, p. 305 (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
I am the Water of Life, Out of myself I grow. The more you drink of me, The fuller I will flow.
— The Water of Life, in Ch. XXVI : The Water of Life
I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book , a meal, your children , life , a walk - is fantastic .
— Francesca Annis, in Francesca Annis interview (14 April 2009)
I can't see heaven but I credit hell I live in New York so I know it well. When they shut out heaven with the fuller Dome God gave it up and He went home.
john brunner— the happening world (6) "Street Seen"
Only her presence can give you the meaning of the name Margaret fuller.
margaret fuller— Elizabeth Sherman Hoar, as quoted in "Humanity, said Edgar Allan Poe, is divided into Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller" by Joseph Jay Deiss in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 23, Issue 5 (August 1972).
If our imagination is challenged to picture what Margaret fuller would have been like had she remained in Boston, it is positively staggered at trying to conceive what would have been the career of the Marchioness Ossoli in America. The wreck of the Elizabeth deprived the cultural history of this country of what would surely have been an exciting chapter.
margaret fuller— Perry Miller in "I find no intellect comparable to my own" in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (February 1957).
Her specter haunted all who knew her, and many who did not. Henry James, born in New York in 1843, stood beside his father on a Hudson River excursion boat and heard Washington Irving tell that Margaret fuller had been drowned the day before. Even at the age of seven this small boy was resolved to be one on whom nothing is lost, and he knew, if nobody else did, that a heroine had gone to a heroic death.
margaret fuller— Perry Miller in "I find no intellect comparable to my own" in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (February 1957).
R. Buckminster fuller (himself)
— A trimtab is the smallest part of a rudder for a ship or airplane, and controls the direction of the craft.
