#distance

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things. ↗

— John Wesley Powell

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I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

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Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

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Time is the longest distance between two places. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do. ↗

— George Linnaeus Banks

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It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

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No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#distance #doubt #everything #follows #god

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#customers #distance #layers #management #organization

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#centuries #civilization #course #customs #difficult

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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