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(On meeting Pope John Paul II at the White House in 1978) "He impressed me more than any other man I`ve ever met, and I`ve met a lot. My wife and I happened to be seated on one of the aisles, and the Pope came right down and he saw me and smiled. The smile was genuine, not a politician smile, the practiced smile. He shook hands with me and went on. And then (US President Jimmy Carter) said, `Hello, Gregory, what are you doing here?` and I said, `Well, Mr. President, you invited me.` He said, `Just a minute` - and damned if he didn`t run after the Pope, grabbing him by the arm and pulled him back. He said, `Your Excellency, this is one of our best-known, most-beloved American film actors.` And he looked at me, ah! There was a glimmer as if somehow he must have seen me in a movie. His eyes widened and he took me in his arms. And he sort of grabbed me by the elbow and said, `God bless you, Gregory. God bless you in your mission.` And he went on."

- Gregory Peck

Captaris widened its lead in 2004 in large part because of its strategy to add workflow and document management products to its RightFax fax server. Captaris is embarking on a future where it sells complete solutions to business entities that solve all their paper problems.

- Peter Davidson

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

- Stefan Zweig

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

- Allan Schweyer

For our size, I think we are safe. There has been a lot of highway reconstruction. Danbury would have never been the same if I-84 hadn`t been widened.

- Anne Lukas

I think (the height gap between receivers and cornerbacks) has kind of widened,

- Barbara Morgan