#scope

As government expands, liberty contracts. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master. ↗

— George Washington

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I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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Power must never be trusted without a check. ↗

— John Adams

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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music. ↗

— Dennis Brown

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I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

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And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

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What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

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I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

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