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Distance Quote by Tim Cope

“In wider spaces, people bearing historical grudges with each other were separated by the muting qualities of distance.” quote by Tim Cope — Download Open image

“In wider spaces, people bearing historical grudges with each other were separated by the muting qualities of distance.”

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Much of my journey in Kazakhstan was about understanding the legacy of the Soviet times and finding out what remained of nomadic.

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Gradually, I came to know my horses intimately. You go through every mood they experience and come to view the world much like a…

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What drew me to Kazakhstan was a curiosity to learn about life in this 'middle earth' of steppe between the endless forests of Russia…

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The Khoton people are a small minority group of Mongolians renowned for living a traditional nomad life in the remote slopes and valleys of the Kharkhiraa-Turgen mountain range.

For the traveller, Kazakhstan offers more than just a staging post for the Silk Road, as is often perceived, and there is more than…

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A single camel can carry around 300 kilograms. Using camels for hauling during migration is becoming a rarity in Mongolia, where mechanized transport is…

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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.

Patricia McConnell

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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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When somebody mentions that I did a play with George C. Scott, I'm like, it can't have happened. What was I doing on a…

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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

Memories seem to surface in no particular order, with no time attached. Yesterday can seem as distant as last year. My life now consists of fragments where some are so blinding in their intensity that they make everything else indistinguishable. It feels as if my existence was extinguished in a flash, and afterwards my universe became incomprehensible. I want to…

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in…

Abraham Verghese

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Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs of excessive commercialization in every part of the university.' His somber assessment of the current state of athletics, scientific research, and distance education, and his call for review and restraint, should engage the attention of every…

Frank H. T. Rhodes

To be a champion long-distance runner you have to run on the edge of death.

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The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of…

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