#near

So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

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These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#arranged #been #busily #days #employed

The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#here #jews #like #nearly #remain

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#get #here #i #like #lost

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#comparison #dream #get #him #i

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#great #humility #nearest

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#first #good #impulses #mistrust #nearly

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information. ↗

— Justin Theroux

#follow #give #happen #information #know

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#children #domestic #during #experience #female

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. ↗

— George Bancroft

#common mind #criterion #decision #faculty #mind