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"Be neither too remote nor too familiar." »Prince Charles
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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." »Fred Hoyle
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"Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Only the most extraordinary men can choose the remote cliffs as their graveyards; others are always condemned to nearby city gardens!" »m
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"Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door." »Tyron Edwards
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"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." »Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)
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"Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo Virtue is at hand." »Confucius
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"Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand." »Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"Women never reason and therefore they are, comparatively, seldom wrong. They judge instinctively of what falls under their immediate observation or experience, and do not trouble themselves about remote or doubtful consequences. If they make no profound discoveries, they do not involve themselves in gross absurdities. It is only by the help of reason and logical inference, according to Hobbes, that ?man becomes excellently wise or excellently foolish.?" »Hazlitt
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"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible." »Hubert Humphrey
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