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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

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I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death. ↗

— Eben Alexander

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. ↗

— William Congreve

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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. ↗

— Christopher Fry

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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part. ↗

— Damian Lewis

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It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

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Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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