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You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close. — Howard G. Hendricks
But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the… — Douglas Adams
After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them;… — Mahatma Gandhi
Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons,… — Edward Abbey
We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the backcountry we… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The first thing I would like to tell you about death is that there is no bigger lie than death. And yet, death appears to… — Rajneesh
It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family. — Anna Wintour
In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long… — Sun Tzu
Its the people you are close to, the ones who love you, the ones who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul -… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it… — Gregory Rabassa
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections,… — Noah Webster
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity… — Jean Genet
We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to… — John Donne
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is… — Lewis Thomas
Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics. — L Peter Deutsch
Listen close and you can hear, Please, bless us and forgive us, and make us good here and strong here. Let us get along here.… — Janet Morris
That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a… — Emily Perkins
The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night… — Emily Bronte
But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten years. If I… — Saburo Sakai

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