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Having so many gold courses so close together was ideal for me. With my slice I could enjoy three or four golf courses at the… — Bob Hope
On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person. — Sally Ride
The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather. — Margaret Mead
Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile… — Mother Teresa
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. — Wendell Phillips
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to… — Jean de la Bruyere
The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how… — Og Mandino
What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering, who appeal to your sense of connection to intention, who see the greatness in… — Wayne Dyer
The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not… — Joshua L. Liebman
There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is… — John F. Kennedy
When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych… — Lois Lowry
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace. — Kate Chopin
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to… — Samuel Johnson
There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine… — Terence McKenna
One and one make 2. But if you bring 1 and 1 close together they make 11. — Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield
We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles… — Tennessee Williams
We dread life's termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope. — William Hazlitt
If the so-called 'Christianity' now being practiced in America displays the best that world Christianity has left to offer - no one in his right… — Malcolm X

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