#distant

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. ↗

— Hugo Black

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If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D. ↗

— Jack Black

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The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. ↗

— John Burroughs

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

— Saul Bellow

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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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American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure. ↗

— John Yoo

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Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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