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“We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance...” quote by Nichiren — Download Open image

“We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance...”

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I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

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I think hair gel was invented to make it easier to identify assholes from a distance.

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Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

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Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

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She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

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