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You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.

~Abbott L. Lowell

Topics: Distant Done May Near Objective Satisfied Seek Will You

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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

~Adam Ferguson

Topics: Arise Before Blow Come Date Derived Distant Forces Instincts Know Like List Men Obscure Origin Philosophy Society Whence Winds

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We look at distant exploding stars called supernovae, and we've developed techniques to measure how far away they are and how fast they're moving away from us.

~Adam Riess

Topics: Away Developed Distant Exploding Far Far Away Fast How How Far Look Measure Moving Moving Away Stars Techniques Us

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I never was deeply interested in any object; I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything, but it came at some time - no matter how distant, in some way, in some shape, probably the last I should have devised, it came. And yet, I have always had so little faith. God forgive me.

~Adoniram Judson

Topics: Always Any Anything Came Deeply Distant Earnestly Faith Forgive Forgive Me God Had How Interested Last Little Matter Me Never Object Prayed Shape Should Sincerely Some Time Way

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The Hudson River lay flat and black like a lost evening glove. The clouds parted overhead as the distant moon threw a single, bright beam over lower Manhattan as though it were looking for its other half.

~Adriana Trigiani

Topics: Beam Black Bright Clouds Distant Evening Flat Glove Half Hudson Lay Like Looking Lost Lower Manhattan Moon Other Over Overhead Parted River Single Though Threw Were

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What I see in the corporate sector is very clearly an issue of a major shortfall in the issue of, what some people call confidence, but whatever you want to call it. Clearly people are looking out in the very distant future and they are saying that it is too complex.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Call Clearly Complex Confidence Corporate Distant Future Issue Looking Major Out People Saying Sector See Some Some People Too Very Want Whatever You I See

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Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Architecture Come Design Distant Generally Given Located Locations Often Projects Students Theoretical Up

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It is only by freeing NASA from routine human transport to low-Earth orbit that we can afford to once again see American astronauts exploring distant worlds.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Afford Again American Astronauts Distant Exploring Freeing Human Nasa Once Only Orbit Routine See Transport Worlds

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For me, the distant future and far-off galaxies is where it's at. That's where my imagination can really come out to play.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: Come Distant Future Galaxies Imagination Me Out Play Really Where

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For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.

~Albert Claude

Topics: Ancestors Apparent Basic Billion Cell Distant Endless Fancy Her Itself Life Mechanisms Our Over Physiological Regards Remained Same Through True Two Years

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