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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest. ↗

— William McKinley

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The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution. ↗

— Byron White

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Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

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If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim. ↗

— Ian Anderson

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Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. ↗

— Alexander John Ellis

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At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. ↗

— George Carlin

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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. ↗

— David Hume

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare. ↗

— Michael Tippett

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