#near

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university. ↗

— John Keegan

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I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

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The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare. ↗

— Michael Tippett

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I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

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So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear. ↗

— Diana Krall

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But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where to draw the line with the fortresses I had set up. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

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With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

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Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#america #american #american politics #assassination #character