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My dad was president of the volunteer fire department, which was within walking distance to our house. I spent several days of each week there with him - any time the whistle blew, he went. It was truly inspiring to watch him lead that way.

~Brad Paisley

Topics: Any Blew Dad Days Department Distance Each Each Week Fire He Him House Inspiring Lead Our President Several Spent Time Truly Volunteer Walking Watch Way Week Which Whistle Within

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When you get into the final week of the Tour de France, it becomes a different kind of race. As the distance and the fatigue really tell, that is when it becomes a proper test of everyone's fitness.

~Bradley Wiggins

Topics: Becomes Different Different Kind Distance Everyone Fatigue Final Fitness France Get Kind Proper Race Really Tell Test Tour Week You

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The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock's coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory.

~Brendan I. Koerner

Topics: Calculate Computer Coordinate Cosmic Developed Distance Factors Gravitational Group Hazards Influences Jet Laboratory Nasa Objects Rock Software System Together Trajectory Velocity

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Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

~Brian Aldiss

Topics: Between Civilization Distance Himself His Man Placed

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When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Been Benefit Certain Composition Cool Did Distance Europe Had Increasing Left Observing Relevance Several Teacher Tendencies Thought Would Years

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My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Between Dimensions Distance Itself Largely Maintained My Own Nature Own Points Position Processes Suggest Them Through Up Which Without Work

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Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer or farther away, the temperature would be hotter or colder, eliminating liquid water, an essential ingredient for our survival.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Away Because Closer Different Distance Distances Essential Farther Find Host Hotter Ingredient Liquid Many Our Ourselves Planets Star Survival Temperature Water Were Would

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Sharks don't particularly have a great interest in divers. It seemed that in a normal dive, I would jump in the water, and one or two gray reef sharks would swim in and kind of check me out - and then they would keep their distance. So they weren't particularly threatening or anything to be afraid of.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Afraid Anything Check Distance Dive Divers Gray Great Interest Jump Keep Kind Me Normal One Or Two Out Particularly Seemed Sharks Swim Then Threatening Two Water Were Would

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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

~Bruce Feirstein

Topics: Between Distance Genius Insanity Measured Only Success

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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: American American Dream Between Distance Dream Judging Life My Life Reality Spent

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