#near

All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#elevation #general #human #human rights #humble

The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million. ↗

— Joe Baca

#delivers #every #increases #mail #million

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies. ↗

— Kofi Busia

#deceiving #diplomacy #friends #means #nearly

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. ↗

— Catherine II

#already #anything #aware #excited #farther

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#fear #had #induce #inertia #love

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer. ↗

— Black Elk

#anything #came #dance #during #eighteenth

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#community #nearly #percent #pretty #religious

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#am #die #i #i am #may

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day. ↗

— Neil Innes

#i #i remember #nearly #one day #records

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died. ↗