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Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country. ↗

— Pierre Loti

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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon. ↗

— Larry Niven

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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots. ↗

— Walter Salles

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Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. ↗

— Saul Bellow

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There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. ↗

— John Clayton

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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service. ↗

— Robert Collier

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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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