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I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.

~Damon Galgut

Topics: Abstract Another Apartheid Changed Distant Fascinated Generation Growing Growing Up How How Much Idea Just Memory Military Military Service Much Notion Now People Service Up Whom Young Young People

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I'm very involved in FIU. I'm class of '96 and my wife is class of '97. I'm a member of the foundation board. We talk about where the university is strategically and the evolution of programs for the near and distant future.

~Danny Pino

Topics: About Board Class Distant Evolution Foundation Future Involved Member Near Programs Strategically Talk University Very Where Wife

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Novels set in distant places give us expectations not unlike those we have of travel writing, and often the distinctions are blurred, as in, say, the way the low life of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward is depicted in John David Morley's recent 'Pictures from the Water Trade.'

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Blurred David Depicted Distant Distinctions Expectations Give John Life Low Novels Often Pictures Places Recent Say Set Those Tokyo Trade Travel Unlike Us Ward Water Way Writing

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I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve, but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.

~Dee Dee Myers

Topics: Achieve Back Continue Distant Events Forward Future Historic Inspire Longer Look Milestones Teach Them Time Women

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When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier.

~Don Kardong

Topics: About Conflict Distant Earlier Had Happened Irrelevant Middle Middle School Only School Seemed Teachers War World World War World War Ii Years

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I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.

~Donald Sutherland

Topics: Distant Film Going Grabbing Location Love Wife I Love

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Smart development builds on a region's own skills, resources and local businesses. Dumb growth invites a big corporation in, surrenders control and profits to a distant headquarters, undercuts local manufacturers, and risks layoffs without warning.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Big Builds Businesses Control Corporation Development Distant Dumb Growth Headquarters Invites Layoffs Local Manufacturers Own Profits Region Resources Risks Skills Smart Warning Without

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Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly distant from Obama. Working-class voters - always more enamored of Clinton - have grown even more wary and distrustful of the Chicagoan. Both voting blocs pose the danger of serious defection in 2012. Without their support, Obama cannot win.

~Douglas Wilder

Topics: Always Both Cannot Clinton Danger Days Distant Enamored Even Grown Heady Inauguration Increasingly Independents Middle-Class More Obama Pose Serious Since Support Voters Voting Wary Win Without Working-Class

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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

~Edward Gibbon

Topics: Cold Distant Misery Our Relation Sympathy

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Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future.

~Edward M. Lerner

Topics: Asteroid Belt Deals Distant Empires Epics Fiction Future Lots Past Places Remote Science Science Fiction Times Trips

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