Quotes with close-knit

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  • Audre Lorde Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 47
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Cal Hubbard Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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  • Burt Rutan By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Victor Hugo Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Maxwell Maltz Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Bill Bruford Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Caspar David Friedrich Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
    Caspar David Friedrich: line and transparency (1984)
    Caspar David Friedrich
    German landscape painter (1774 - 1840)
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  • Carlos Fuentes Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Benjamin Millepied Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.
    Benjamin Millepied
    French dancer and choreographer (1977 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Mann Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Augustus William Hare Friendship close its eye, rather that see the moon eclipst; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Brenda Brathwaite From initial concept to final build, 'Train' was close to a year in development. Much of this was research and letting the dynamics of the project come to the surface.
    Brenda Brathwaite
    American game designer
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  • Cass Sunstein From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • George Burns Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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