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When we're always connected, we allow others-colleagu es and celebrities, close friends and distant acquaintances, bloggers and news aggregators-set our life's agenda. Our ability to… — George Barna
If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus. — Charles Spurgeon
I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but… — Dalai Lama
When I was young, every time I criticized someone, my mother would stand me in front of the mirror and say: 'The flaws you see… — Richard Branson
Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know… — Iris Johansen
My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts. — Malcolm X
I'd walked too close to heaven and gotten a glimpse. The hell I'd lived before her no longer appealed to me. — Abbi Glines
You're going to get violated in that ring. I am going to close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show. — David Haye
I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish… — Thomas Hood
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols. — Igor Stravinsky
I've made so many mistakes that if I don't make the same mistakes over, we're going to come pretty close to winning. — Bear Bryant
The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again. — Florence Littauer
A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it. — Nina Bawden
Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close. — Mike Patton
In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if… — William Dampier
A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and… — Beverley Nichols
We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world outside,… — Terry Teachout
During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into… — Alice Walker
I like the sort of 'nothingness' of the jeans and the T-shirt. I feel that's about as close as I can get to the future… — Marc Jacobs
Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. — Dalai Lama

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