Quotes with still-distant

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  • Thomas Carlyle The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Cass Sunstein The U.S. is supposed to be a nation of second chances, but for the 70 million Americans with a criminal record, we're not doing such a great job. Even among those whose crimes were nonviolent and committed long ago, too many still bear a scarlet letter.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Carlo Azeglio Ciampi The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
    Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
    Italian politician and banker (1920 - 2016)
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  • John F. Kennedy The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Edward Gibbon The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Bruce Jackson The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Camille Paglia The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ben Jonson The voice so sweet, the words so fair,
    As some soft chime had stroked the air;
    And, though the sound were parted thence,
    Still left an echo in the sense.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio LXXXIV, Eupheme, part 4, lines 37-40.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • B. B. King The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Marguerite Duras The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home - will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Bianca Walkden The World Championship gold was a surprise and took a lot of pressure off in terms of qualifying for Rio, but I still need more points, and winning in Manchester would be massive for me.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Billie Holiday Them that's got shall get
    Them that's not shall lose
    So the Bible said and it still is news
    Mama may have, Papa may have
    But God bless the child that's got his own
    That's got his own.
    God Bless The Child
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • A. Whitney Brown There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.
    The Big Picture: An American Commentary (1991)
    A. Whitney Brown
    American writer and comedian (1952 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Abbey Lincoln There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki There are periods when you feel really good. You feel the ball is bigger. The court is larger. You feel like you can't miss. And then there are periods when you feel, 'OK, I'm not feeling great.' But I still need to try to find a way to win.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • B. B. King There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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