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This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. — Douglas Adams

I once got to meet a man who many say is one of the most brilliant minds alive today. Ken Wilber is the most widely translated academic — Vishen Lakhiani

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one. — Romano Prodi

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise. — Giacomo Leopardi

Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand? — Christopher Paolini

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs. — David Low

He that would be safe from the acts of evil, must widely avoid the occasions. — J.C. Ryle

It is not widely known that in the end, 65 per cent of the church leaders were informers for us, and the rest of them were under surveillance anyhow. — Anna Funder

Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced. — Tony Evans

The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history. — Charles Colson

I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault. — Dmitri Shostakovich

There is no such thing as "the user". Users ... come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and they have widely varying information needs ... — Hans H Wellisch

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao-Tzu

While the importance of a strong brand is widely understood, nothing is as misunderstood in American business as the question of how to use it. — David F. D'Alessandro

I don't know whether to feel good or bad about learning that my experience is widely shared.'
'Feel bad,' he said. — Don DeLillo

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man. — John Osborne

The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames. — J.G. Holland

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold

It is widely said "Think globally, act locally" ... well the disaster happens when people do the opposite. — Sameh Elsayed

It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience. — John Perry Barlow

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have. — Robert Adams

Theory A widely accepted hypothesis that stands the test of time. Theories are often tested, and usually not rejected. — Jean Brainard

Prior to the institutionalization of standard time, clocks were set using local meridians or local mean time, and they varied widely. — Stacey D'Erasmo

The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations. — Brian Greene

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world. — Herman Daly

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can. — Edward Hirsch

She was loved deeply, but not widely — John Green

Being widely read is not the same as being well read. — Laurence Endersen

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely. — Gustave Flaubert

Because our agriculture is so spread out, that makes it vulnerable. Our food gets transported a number of times and very widely. — Donald Hamilton

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history. — Georgia Harkness

Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences. — William Shunn

we need to design our systems so that they are continually creating telemetry, widely — Gene Kim

Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed. — William Feather

Hillary Clinton's been around for 30 years. Why do these stories need to be told? It isn't all of this widely known? — Rush Limbaugh

The free software community should be supported more widely. I'm totally in solidarity with what they do. — Laura Poitras

Use your voice on the local level where it has the potential to be more widely heard. — Kirsten Gillibrand

Some people are widely read. I'm thinly read. — Eddie Izzard

John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should he more widely read. — Saul Bellow

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand. — Walter Savage Landor

The concept of romantic love as a widely accepted cultural value and as the ideal basis of marriage was a product of the nineteenth century. — Nathaniel Branden

One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men. — M. Carey Thomas

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. - WILLIAM GIBSON, — Timothy Ferriss

Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative. — Braden Kelley

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it. — Donald C. Peattie

But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody. — Derek Bailey

were we two following our widely parted roads towards one point in the mysterious future, at which we were to meet once more? — Wilkie Collins

You read widely to be shaped, not so that you might be prepared to regurgitate. — Douglas Wilson

People who command respect are never as widely known as people who command attention. For — Kathleen Rooney

One cannot underestimate how widely admired Tom Daschle is in Washington for his integrity. — David Gergen

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting. — Aaron Klug

Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy. — Jan Garavaglia

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations. — Samuel George Morton

The more widely you can spread this notion of achieving ROI by preserving and improving ecosystems, the better. — Ramez Naam

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Paul Ryan is a nationally tested leader that is widely known and respected. — Bob Beauprez

Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely — Oliver Goldsmith

The conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners — Barbara Kingsolver

We would love to see walking groups more widely recommended by physicians, health trainers and nurses. — Sarah Hanson-Young

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country. — Winston Churchill

Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue. — John Ortberg

Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today. — Stephen Wolfram

Honey," she said, smiling so widely that I thought her face might split into two. "Are you about to make your momma proud? — J. Lynn

The credit quality of junk bonds varies widely. — Alex Berenson

The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied — Edward Jenks

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity. — Aaron Swartz

As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately. — Chang-rae Lee

I'd rather be frequently quoted than widely published. — Ron Brackin

My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma. — Camille Paglia

Rincewind tried shutting his eyes, but there were no eyelids to his imagination and it was staring widely — Terry Pratchett

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me. — Clara Barton

A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held. — Georg Cantor

The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it. — Rene Descartes

If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible. — Aldous Huxley

The pumpkin is a uniquely American plant, widely regarded as one of the most magical plants in all the world. — Seth Adam Smith

The cultivation theory has been widely used in the study of violence in television. — Anonymous

We know that new ideas often come from the cross-fertilisation of different fields, occurring in the mind of a widely knowledgeable person. — Ian Leslie

O natal star, thou producest twins of widely different character.
[Lat., Geminos, horoscope, varo Producis genio.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus

I'm no enthusiast for the Coase Theorem. I don't like it, but it's widely used. — Ronald Coase

The judiciary in Burma is not independent. It's widely known, everybody knows that. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States. — Carolyn Maloney

If anything is to be done, let a man do it, let him attack it vigorously! A careless pilgrim only scatters the dust of his passions more widely. — Various

I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing. — Kathryn Lasky

Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell! — Dante Alighieri

Who travels widely needs his wits about him. The stupid should stay at home. And — Eric Weiner

I yawned so widely a bear could've mistaken my mouth for a cave and crawled in to hibernate for the winter. — Alyxandra Harvey

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood. — Chris Van Hollen

[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements. — Charles Darwin

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature — Eric S. Raymond

Although we were The Spice Girls of 1984 in Europe, My work has never been widely promoted in the U.S. — Holly Johnson

people who are obese are widely seen as less competent in a workplace setting than those who are of a normal weight. — Anonymous

As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience. — Sylvia Day

The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous. — Alain De Botton

Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away! — Vicki Corona

In this society these days, women are widely accepted in all kinds of cross-gender areas. So yeah, it's time! — Danica Patrick

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman. — David Mitchell