#approach

As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence. ↗

— Edward Forbes

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A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive. ↗

— Bruce Jay Friedman

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Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ↗

— Northrop Frye

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The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat. ↗

— Orlando Gibbons

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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it. ↗

— Mia Kirshner

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There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you. ↗

— Damian Lewis

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The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

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My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character. ↗

— Ving Rhames

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