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Both the cow-woman and the scum-woman are well within range of the comprehension of the Bawling Brotherhood, but the new woman is a little above him, and he never thought of looking up to where she has been sitting apart in silent contemplation all these years.
— 1894 North American Review,'The New Aspect of the Woman Question', Mar.
So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.
Michael Drayton— 1594 Ideas Mirrour,'To the Reader ofThese Sonnets'.
For greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.
phillips brooks— Sermons (1879), p. 14
It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements.
helena bonham carter— Of her role in Planet of the Apes.
Henryson's greatness is most plainly to be seen in the range of general principles and ideas which informs his poetry and which allows it to encompass tragedy and comedy alike. He is the most Shakespearian of the early Scottish poets.
Robert Henryson— John MacQueen, in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography vol. 26, s. n. Henryson, Robert.
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice, as inaudible as the streams of sound conveyed by electric waves beyond the range of our hearing; and just as the touch of button on our stereo will fill the room with music, so by opening one of these volumes, one can call into range a voice far distant in time and space, and hear it speaking, mind to mind, heart to heart.
gilbert highet— The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning (1976)
When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.
john henry holland— p. 62 (Ch 2. Adaptive Systems)
Enough of dreams! No longer mockThe burdened hearts of men!Not on the cloud, but on the rockBuild thou thy faith again;O range no more the realms of air,Stoop to the glen-bound streams;Thy hope was all too like despair:Enough, enough of dreams.
Alfred Noyes— "The Secret Inn : 'The Kingdom is Within You'" in Master Mind Magazine, Vol. VII, No. 3 (December 1914), p. 99.
I always admired the God-given glory of his voice — that unmistakable special timbre from the bottom up to the very top of the tenor range. ... I also loved his wonderful sense of humor.
Luciano Pavarotti— Placido Domingo
Limiting the liberty of each by the like liberty of all, excludes a wide range of improper actions, but does not exclude certain other improper ones.
Herbert Spencer— Pt. II, Ch. 2, 'Derivation of a First Principle.
I hear beyond the range of sound,I see beyond the range of sight,New earths and skies and seas around,And in my day the sun doth pale his light.
Henry David Thoreau— Inspiration, Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900
I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.
julian assange— "Mayawati controversy: Text of Julian Assange's statement". The Hindu. September 6, 2011. Retrieved on September 9, 2011.
An ordinary physical action of the Avatar releases immense forces in the inner planes and so becomes the starting point for a chain of working, therepercussions and overtones of which are manifest at all levels and are universal in range and effect.
meher baba— 63 : The Working of the Avatar, p. 108
We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct magnanimity, in short does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.
jacques barzun— Preface to the 3rd edition of Berlioz and the Romantic Century (1969)
Evolving life must experience a vast range of possibilities, based on environmental histories so unpredictable that no realized route - the pathway to consciousness in the form of Homo sapiens or Little Green Men, for example - can be construed as a highway to heaven, but must be viewed as a tortuous track rutted with uncountable obstacles and festooned with innumerable alternative branches. Any reasonably precise repetition of our earthly route on another planet therefore becomes wildly improbable even in a trillion cases.
stephen jay gould— "War of the Worldviews", p. 351
All life on earth - everything from bacteria to mushrooms to hippos - shares an astonishing range of detailed biochemical similarities, including the structure of heredity in DNA and RNA , and the universal use of ATP as an energy-storing compound. Two possible scenarios, with markedly different implications for the nature of life, might explain these regularities: either all earthly life shares these features because no other chemistry can work, or these similarities only record the common descent of all organisms on earth from a single origin that happened to feature this chemistry as one possibility among many.
stephen jay gould— "War of the Worldviews", p. 352
I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of sound speculation in dynamical science.
william thomson— The Life of Lord Kelvin, Volume 2, by Silvanus Phillips Thompson. American Mathematical Soc., 1 Dec 2005. Pg 866.
It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect . . . The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms.
william thomson— The Life of Lord Kelvin, Volume 2, by Silvanus Phillips Thompson. American Mathematical Soc. (1 Dec 2005, pg. 1093)
Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on.
stephen spender— "Thoughts During An Air Raid"
Rupert (1992) discusses a range of cases where religious or philosophical ideas have been used to underpin business training seminars, including both movements which fall under the 'New Age' umbrella and the so-called 'self religions' such as the human potential movement, est, or Scientology.
— Peter Bernard Clarke (2000). Japanese New Religions: In Global Perspective. Routledge. p. 64. ISBN 978-0700711857.
Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?
— Chapter 11, p. 90 (Working Class Zero (2003))
Systems thinking plays a dominant role in a wide range of fields from industrial enterprise and armaments to esoteric topics of pure science. Innumerable publications, conferences, symposia and courses are devoted to it. Professions and jobs have appeared in recent years which, unknown a short while ago, go under names such as systems design, systems analysis, systems engineering and others.
— Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1968) General System Theory, p. 3
As our world continues to change rapidly and become more complex, systems thinking will help us manage, adapt, and see the wide range of choices we have before us. It is a way of thinking that gives us the freedom to identify root causes of problems and see new opportunities.
— Donella H. Meadows, Diana Wright (2012) Thinking in Systems: A Primer. p. 17
Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in human history. ... I should add, however, that I find myself in substantial agreement with people who consider themselves anarcho-capitalists on a whole range of issues; and for some years, was able to write only in their journals. And I also admire their commitment to rationality which is rare though I do not think they see the consequences of the doctrines they espouse, or their profound moral failings.
— Noam Chomsky in Z Net, Answers from Chomsky to eight questions on anarchism, 1996
[Pessoa was] Portugal's greatest writer of the twentieth century [though] some critics would even leave off that last qualifying phrase. [He was] one of the most appealing European modernists, equal in command and range to his contemporaries Rilke and Mandelstam .
— The Washington Post Book World, as quoted in The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa (2002), edited by Richard Zenith, p. 344
Cotton is infected by a range of diseases which can affect the quality of the fibre and seed, as well as the yield and cost of production of the cotton crop.
— A.A.Bell (1999), P.44 (The Biology of Gossypium hirsutum L. and Gossypium barbadense L. (cotton) Version)
‘T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
— Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, Act 2 scene 3
Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have.
J. K. Rowling— Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 21, said by Hermione Granger (2003).
