![If the atoms in [a] decimetre cube of lead were all put into a chain side by side the same distance apart as they are in the normal lead, the strings of atoms so formed would reach over six million million miles.](/assets/img/quote-photos/if-the-atoms-in-a-decimetre-cube-of-lead-were-all-put-into-a-chain-side-by-side.jpg)
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Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own. Daniel Goleman
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Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed. bell hooks
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Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance. Brennan Manning
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The extra distance is going to help him, too. It could be a hot pace.
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When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss. Alberto Giacometti
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Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates. Doug Larson
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Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to self-confidence, which reduces fear. This makes for constructive members of the community. Self-centredness on the other hand leads to distance, suspicion, mistrust and loneliness, with unhappiness as the result. Dalai Lama
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It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new. Calvin Coolidge
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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty. Charles Darwin
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But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress. Janet Suzman
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In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.
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