#spreading

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#backward #characteristic #communities #more #nationalism

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#converts #different #different parts #early #father

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#diseases #during #everywhere #extinction #land

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations. ↗

— Mos Def

#art #cheering #collect #dormant #functional

Starbucks is spreading like a cancer. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#like #spreading #starbucks

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#baby #boom #discovered #fear #generation

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. ↗

— Washington Irving

#equable #gifts #good nature #heaven #inexhaustible

We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small. ↗

— Ann Veneman

#assessments #cases #country #did #even

Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to. ↗

— Edward Witten

#direction #enter #everything #familiar #fuzzy

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#harmony #human #human values #i #important