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One should stop - especially Britain, which was always for expansion of the European Union - discriminating against countries only because it comes across well in the current context if you beat up on others, i am strictly against that one should - and this is the key point - act as if all Poles, all Romanians, all Bulgarians who are on the European labor market are doing this out of a basically criminal disposition. These are people who are working to get paid.

– European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Various elements among the representatives of Islamic State are already slipping into Afghanistan from Iraq and Syria. All this requires the adoption of appropriate preventative measures, the creeping expansion of militant extremism and religious radicalism, not only on the territory of the governments of Central Asia but also abroad, is most seriously concerning.

– Islam Karimov

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The creeping expansion of militant extremism and religious radicalism, not only on the territory of the governments of Central Asia but also abroad, is most seriously concerning.

– Islam Karimov

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Early next year the Governing Council will reassess the monetary stimulus achieved, the expansion of the balance sheet and the outlook for price developments, should it become necessary to further address risks of too prolonged a period of low inflation ... this would imply altering early next year the size, pace and composition of our measures.

– Mario Draghi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

For a decade, the DNC has invested in all of our state parties year in, and year out, including those in the South, whether it's working with state parties to build our voter file, investing in our State Party Partnership which funds staff on the ground, or our voter expansion and protection programs, the DNC is there to support state parties across the South. We have a lot of work to do, but we are proud of our investments in southern states over the last decade.

– Michael Czin

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We're beginning to identify the biological basis of the reported mind expansion associated with psychedelic drugs.

– Robin Carhart-Harris

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

– Gerald G. Jampolsky

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10 years ago

There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

– Charles M. Schwab

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10 years ago

[L]ife shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense—only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.”

– Stephen Jay Gould

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10 years ago

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

– Bruce Lee

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10 years ago

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

– Anaïs Nin

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10 years ago

We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion. Conventionality is the death of creation.

– Anthon St Maarten

added by anonymous
11 years ago

The forces of the Power Cycles work over time to distributes the power and wealth among nations. Every nation and every political party must go through the cycles of expansion and contraction. This is true for all past, current and future powers. The only difference is that this power cycle got accelerated tremendously with the introduction of the Internet and global communications.

– Med Jones

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13 years ago

Everyone's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

– Charles Schwab

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14 years ago

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

– Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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14 years ago

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