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A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. Samuel Goldwyn

Movies, Bad, Film, Twice, Just, Screen

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

Light, Darkness, Direction, Black, Pure

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, Eyes, Open, Half, Keep, Before

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

Life, Eyes, Simple, Powerful, Trees

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, You, Find, Mean, Within, Go

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow. Solomon Northup

Light, Snow, Eye, Appearance, Cotton

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

Good, Power, Sunshine, Happy, Soul

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

Sun, Shine, Joy, Flowers, World, Trees

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

Life, My Life, World, Momentum, Will

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web. John McCarthy

Ambition, World, Spider, Web, His

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. Carl Sagan

World, Understanding, Minds, Awake, How

'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

Life, Sad, Eyes, Past, Chance, Suicide

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

World, You, Fence, Forever, Out, Cannot

Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to 'Be a Real Man' anymore? Shouldn't we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood? Andy Dunn

Man, Men, Stereotypes, Real Man, Why

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

Man, Deep, Heaven, Hell, Place, Fence

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

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

Wisdom, Start, Look, Back, Never, Expand

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

Happiness, You, Possible, Friendly, Far

When you seek out - or seek to avoid - your own reflection, the modern city becomes a hall of mirrors: car windows, reflective walls, and plate glass are everywhere, transmitting a cacophony of different versions of you - this one too short, that one too wide, another one with a sickly color you've never seen before. Alexandra Kleeman

Car, Reflection, City, Short, Color, You

Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust. Norma McCorvey

Father, God, Look, Know, You, Stop

Most great leaders in history that I've studied always need to get as wide a range of opinions as possible so that they can have sufficient information to make the right decisions. John McCain

History, Great, Decisions, Information

Our vision is for games to offer a wide variety of different experiences and attract all kinds of gamers and nongamers. Jenova Chen

Vision, Games, Variety, Attract, Gamers

St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud. W. E. B. Du Bois

City, Calm, Three, Cloud, Meet, Two

A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial. David A. Bednar

Help, Wood, Sewing, Patterns, Unwanted

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge. Carl Jung

Knowledge, Thinking, Reality, Facts

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original. Lydia Davis

People, Bad, Original, Translation, Text

There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't duplicate that on blogs. Noam Chomsky

Media, Information, You, Source, Mass

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