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- The increasing remoteness of consanguinity is everyday diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever… — Alexander Hamilton
- The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now… — Conrad Aiken
- The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide,… — Fred Bear
- The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal… — Martin Lewis Perl
- With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get… — Nikola Tesla
- The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. — William Hazlitt
- Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing… — Mark Twain
- Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot
- Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change. — Alice Meynell
- After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating… — Lawrence Millman
- Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,-\-\it seemed the… — Helen Hunt Jackson