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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view. ↗

— William Bartram

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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

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A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

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I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. ↗

— S. J. Perelman

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Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places. ↗

— Isabelle Eberhardt

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I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

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