#further

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. ↗

— Isaac Newton

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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do. ↗

— Thomas Perry

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On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

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Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

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