Best Near Thoughts
2196 Near quotes by 1574 unique authors
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It is not enough to love those who are near and dear to us. We must also show them that we do so.
— Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
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I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my money, life is…
— Nick Offerman
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If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.
— Rajneesh
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The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near future right-wingers will…
— William S. Burroughs
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If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The process of dying begins with the dissolution of the elements within the body. It has eight stages, beginning with the dissolution of the earth…
— Dalai Lama
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I think, just the exhilaration of flying. The freedom of the air. The freedom of flight. And you completely remove yourself from the world. And…
— Nancy Bird Walton
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The onset of more severe climate impacts overseas may also open up temporary opportunities, or 'policy windows.' These would allow legislators the licence to take…
— John Beddington
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Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth.…
— Bill McKibben
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Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.
— Huey Long
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Life is a near-death experience.
— George Carlin
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As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence…
— Leonard Boswell
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We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The secret is to start a story near the ending.
— Chris Offutt
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If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
— Confucius
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination,…
— Will Smith
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If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their interests are allowed…
— Peter Singer
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It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time…
— Blaise Pascal
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It's strange when they near your cell. You lose all your strength and you are like this. You lose all your strength as if a…
— Unknown Author
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I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside
— Ken Dodd
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The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.
— George Herbert
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To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can…
— Al Oerter
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We're nowhere near democracy. I've been released, that's all.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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