Quotes with still-distant

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  • Arthur Bryant Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.
    Arthur Bryant
    English historian, columnist for The Illustrated London News and man (1899 - 1985)
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  • Gerald R. Ford Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
    Gerald R. Ford
    American politician and 38th President of the United States (1913 - 2006)
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  • Bruce Lee Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.
    Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 6 Beyond System — The Ultimate Source of Je
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Alfred Adler Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Bill Hader Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Barney Ross Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • John Updike Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Augusto Roa Bastos Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
    Augusto Roa Bastos
    Paraguayan novelist and writer (1917 - 2005)
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  • Virginia Woolf Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Ben Jonson Follow a shadow, it still flies you;
    Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
    So court a mistress, she denies you;
    Let her alone, she will court you.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio That Women Are But Mens Shadows, lines 1-4.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Abraham Cowley Fond archer, Hope! who tak'st thy aim so far,
    That still or short, or wide thine arrows are!
    Against Hope.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Hal Borland For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.
    Hal Borland
    American author, journalist and naturalist
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  • John Maynard Keynes For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • William Wordsworth For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Albert Claude For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • John Dryden For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Bob Newhart For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Benjamin Watson Fortunately for me, I had a father who didn't let us get away with anything. You were taught respect, and you were taught to be humble. That has a lot to do with how I am now, because I'm still scared of my dad.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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