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«Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.»
«Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.»
«When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love»
Author: Erica Jong
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Books
| Keywords:
amaze, authors, dust jacket, icon, icons, jacket, jackets, picture book, provoke, remote, worm
«What this task requires in the way of higher intellectual gifts is a sense of unity and a power of judgement, raised to a marvelous pitch of vision, which easily grasps and dismisses a thousand remote possibilities an ordinary mind would labor to identify, and wear itself out in doing so.»
«To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Elderly,
Happiness
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especially, flowing, future day, germ, germs, isolate, isolated, isolates, isolating, remote, remotest, stream, unknown, youth
«The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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American civilization, coarse, denote, denotes, preserved, remote, rusticity, The Americans, unacquainted, unacquainted with, villager, villagers
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