- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Distances Quotes
Distance is both physical and emotional in these quotes. One line questions whether humanity would stand a chance against alien invaders who could cross the enormous distances of interstellar space at all. Another describes a public figure deliberately putting distance between herself and a movement, framed as a loss rather than a neutral choice. A third recalls building technology that shrank the distances between people across countries, only to be reminded of national distance again at a bank transfer window. Even nations, the opening quote notes, keep their distance from institutions that have failed them.
These distances quotes treat gaps of every kind, geographic, political, and personal, as things people actively navigate rather than simply endure.
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- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent my workdays at Skype creating a more connected world. We were shrinking the distances between people, making it easier to connect across countries. Then I'd go to my bank to transfer my euros to pounds, and it was like going back in time 50 years: expensive, inconvenient, and painfully slow. It was a nightmare.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think KERS will change the overall picture - the gaps between the teams won't get any bigger. And I don't expect more overtaking, especially not under braking. The braking distances of modern F1 cars are just too short to make a big difference.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to run a marathon in the immediate future. In the future future, I want to do ironmans. I cycle long distances. The only thing I have to work on is the swimming. I'm a good swimmer, but I've never done long distances like that.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is life out there that's so much more advanced than we are, and they know either how to travel great distances in short amounts of time, or they're able to come from a parallel universe into ours, why don't they just come and show themselves?
- Found
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It used to be that American and European companies built their products in low-wage countries, separated by great distances from the innovators who developed the products and the markets where they were sold. But companies increasingly find that is an outmoded way of doing business.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just sing. But I have a fun hobby: I love to do archery. I'm pretty good on target. I'm not sure about the distances - maybe only 7 or 10 feet, so far, but I've scored the bull's eye several times, but usually always hit the target.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shoot, after you've been through freeway traffic in Houston or Dallas, there's no road in the world that can scare you. Besides, we're pretty much used to driving long distances in Texas.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
The car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020