Quotes with near-by

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  • Euripides Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Brendan Behan So many belonging to me lay buried in Kilbarrack, the healthiest graveyard in Ireland, they said, because it was so near the sea.
    Borstal Boy pt. 3 (1958)
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Aneurin Bevan Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Bryan Magee Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
    Bryan Magee
    British philosopher, broadcaster, politician (1930 - 2019)
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  • Abraham Cahan The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
    The Rise of David Levinsky
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Carl Sagan The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edward Dahlberg The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Willa Cather The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • John Cheever The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Berlie Doherty The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.
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  • Bruce Forsyth The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • George Washington The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Stephen Hawking There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • E. B. White There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Victor Hugo There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Camille Paglia There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • George Eliot To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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