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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life, Nothing, Down

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer

Living, Compassion, Ethics

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas Carlyle

Action, Solid, Depth

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Diogenes

Men, Mad, Within

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love, Soul, Reach

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
Irving Babbitt

Knowledge, Sympathy, Stress

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Edith Wharton

Age, Freedom, Death

I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.
Susan Orlean

Love, Writing, Pieces

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Marilyn vos Savant

Life, Education, Important

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
Xun Zi

Words, Through, Find

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
George A. Smith

Life, God, Common

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
Benjamin Carson

Education, Knowledge, True

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.
Margaret Cho

Love, Idea, Ourselves

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.
John J. Sweeney

Success, Work, America

'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.
Gary Ross

Seems, Ambitious, Handle

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.
John Charles Polanyi

Makes, Social, Commitment

We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.
Placido Domingo

Destiny, Shoulders, Accordance

Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.
Eric Holder

Enemy, Down, Trying

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
Alexander Herzen

Beauty, Nature, Power

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.
Mark Millar

Potential, Factor, Readership

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
Georges Clemenceau

Single, Land, Tyrant

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.
Howard Berman

Since, Public, Three

At Yahoo, we were one of the early proponents of the power of content showcased through new media. SnagFilms, with its large library and breadth of digital distribution, can help shape this next phase, bringing great stories to broad new audiences.
Terry Semel

Great, Power, Help

I love 'Sweet Valley,' but I love it from a different angle. There are people for whom it is their adolescence. They own it, in a way that even I don't. I've come to respect the project more because of the response than I've had. It's more important than I realized it was. I didn't understand the breadth and depth of it. now I'm beginning to more.
Francine Pascal

Love, Respect, Important

The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business.
Jean-Claude Juncker

Business, Financial, Credit

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
Cecil Frank Powell

Nature, Science, View

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.
Chester Irving Barnard

Leadership, Endurance, Quality

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