Quotes with not-too-distant

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  • C. S. Lewis Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Horace Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Sydney Smith Avoid shame but do not seek glory - nothing so expensive as glory.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of it. And you go on collecting it as if it is something precious. Talk less, listen only to the essential, be telegraphic in talking and listening. If you talk less, if you listen less, slowly slowly you will see that a cleanliness, a feeling of purity, as if you have just taken a bath, will start arising within you. That becomes the necessary soil for medita
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Eric Berne Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.
    Games People Play
    Eric Berne
    Canadian-born psychiatrist (1910 - 1970)
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  • George Canning Away with the cant of ''Measures, not men!'' - the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.
    George Canning
    British statesman (1770 - 1827)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Baby, in a world without pity
    Do you think what I'm askin's too much
    I just want to feel you in my arms
    Share a little of that Human Touch.
    Human Touch (1992) Human Touch
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bob Keeshan Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Britt Ekland Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • B. B. King Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Elmore Leonard Bad guys are not bad guys twenty-four hours a day.
    Elmore Leonard
    American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (1925 - 2013)
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  • George Jean Nathan Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • George Jean Nathan Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Billy Evans Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the turning point.
    Billy Evans
    American umpire in Major League Baseball (1884 - )
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  • John Updike Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Bill Kristol Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I'll predict that right now.
    Fox News Sunday, December 17, 2006 [2]
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Bob Greene Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
    Bob Greene
    American journalist and author (1947 - )
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  • Bill Buckner Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.
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