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"Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things." »Miyamoto Musashi
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"As close as we are today, tomorrow when we come back from that battlefield, we will be as close as two men can possibly be, sharing a bond that can only be forged in the face of imminent disfigurement. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." »Jeff Melvoin
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"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so smallthat they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they arethe world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, and equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them so close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." »Eleanor Anna Roosevelt, Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights
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"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." »Eleanor Roosevelt
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"UNITY helps in bringing a successful end to OPPORTUNITY!!!!" »Siddharth Astir
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"Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes." »Clare Ansberry
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"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." »John Lennon
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"If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt." »Henry Bolingbroke
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"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price." »Robert Orben
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"The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all." »Benjamin Spock
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"Wit and wisdom differ. Wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is in bringing about ends." »John Selden
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"The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do." »Albert Einstein
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"It is easy to bring others down to your level, Instead of bringing yourself up to their level, But it is never ever right." »Unknown
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"Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in." »Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
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"Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.N.B. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. See also Napoleon Bonaparte." »Plato
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"close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be." »Ted Rall
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"To find a friend one must close one eye To keep him, two." »Norman Douglas
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"Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success." »Michael Flatley
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"Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us." »Oprah Winfrey
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"Politicians are the close relatives of the Devil." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"When you close your mouth, your ears will be bigger!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"close your mouth, Michael; we are not a codfish." »Mary Poppins
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"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." »Sun-tzu
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"Silence and creativity are very close friends!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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