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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce. Carl Sagan

Extension, Blazing

My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans. Richard Dawkins

Fact, Existence, Very

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. Henry Ward Beecher

Flowers, Joy, World

Start wide, expand further, and never look back. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Start wide, expand further, and never look back. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Wisdom, Never, Expand

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown. Daryl Hannah

Hometown, Within, Necessary

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. J. R. R. Tolkien

World, About, Cannot

We are a continent of refugees, and if you say we can't integrate refugees, that's not consistent with our values, even if borders cannot be wide open. Emmanuel Macron

Refugees, Borders, Continent

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. Frances E. Willard

My Life, Waste, Turned

There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good. Orison Swett Marden

Sunshine, Doing, Evidence

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry! Philip Gibbs

Deep, Chance, Guns

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson! Andrew Gross

Young, Cliff, Other

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over. Mary Schmich

Game, Other, Scores

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. Johnny Cash

Deep, Hell, Learned

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. - Benjamin Franklin

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. Benjamin Franklin

Marriage, Shut, Afterwards

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task. Virgil

Death, Night, Retrace

During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known - Nominee Barry Goldwater. Jackie Robinson

My Life, Francisco

You have a wide array of people that are watching something, and you cannot please everyone at the same time. Half the people will love it; half the people will hate it. Half the people won't see it. David A. R. White

Love, Everyone, Half

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. Bertrand Russell

Friendly, Hostile, Rather

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage. Dwayne Johnson

Door, Through, Here

The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco. Fatema Mernissi

Woman, Always, Been

The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world. Bruce Springsteen

City, Kansas City, Primitive

I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide. Larry David

Like, Half, Which

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend. Robert Burns

World, Friend, Before

I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character. Tim Curry

Career, Play, Wide Range

The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline. Philippe Perrin

Career, Analytical, Blended

Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.' W. E. B. Du Bois

Before, Workman, Wider

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