Quotes with still-distant

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  • Milan Kundera A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Homer Achilles absent was Achilles still!
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Francis H. Bradley Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Joseph Addison Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Karl Kraus Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ben Stein After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Carly Craig After doing comedy for a while and knowing how hard it is to do physical comedy right, I learned how incredibly talented the Three Stooges really were after re-watching old episodes. They still stand up!
    Carly Craig
    American actress (1980 - )
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  • Abbe Pierre After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Barack Obama Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Paul Simon All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
    Paul Simon
    American singer-songwriter (1941 - 2003)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Billy Bragg All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Robert Burton All places are distant from heaven alike.
    The Anatomy of Melancholy Part II, sect. 2, 4
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Swami Ramdas All spiritual disciplined are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is universal spirit.
    Swami Ramdas
    Indian saint, philosopher, philanthropist and pilgrim (1884 - 1963)
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  • Bill Bryson All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. We were on our way.
    A Short History of Nearly Everything On the moment of creation; page 10
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Alexander Henry All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.
    Alexander Henry
    American painter
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  • Bill Bryson All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Ovid Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Martha Graham America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.
    Martha Graham
    American modern dancer and choreographer (1894 - 1991)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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