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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance. ↗

— David Hume

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Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war. ↗

— John S. Tanner

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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

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To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave. ↗

— Dana Hussein

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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God. ↗

— Ivan Illich

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