Widened Quotes
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Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of
men are widened with the process of the suns.
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If capital isgrowing rapidly, wages may rise; the profit of capital rises incomparably more rapidly. The material position of the worker has improved, but at the cost of his social position. The social gulf that divides him from the capitalist has widened.
— 1849 'Wage Labour and Capital', collected in Robert C Tucker (ed) The Marx-Engels Reader (2nd edn,1972), p.211.
The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.
alexander graham bell— Statement to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in Boston, Massachusetts (27 August 1880): published as "On the Production and Reproduction of Sound by Light" in American Journal of Sciences, Third Series, vol. XX, n°118 (October 1880), pp. 305- 324.
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
Albert Schweitzer— Out of My Life and Thought, An Autobiography (1933) translated by C. T. Campion, Epilogue, p. 235
God grant that as our horizon of duty is widened, our minds may widen with it; that as our burden is increased, our shoulders may be strengthened to bear it. God grant to us that spirit of wisdom and understanding, uprightness, and godly fear, without which, even in greatest things there is nothing; with which, even in the smallest things there is every thing.
arthur penrhyn stanley— P. 115. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
Robert Louis Stevenson— Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 2.
Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
nassim nicholas taleb— p. 109 (Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012))
Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
— Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall (1835, published 1842), Stanza 69.
