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distance phones interesting
There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting. Bill Bryson
distance home average
Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day. Bill Bryson
distance two feet
Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret. Bill Bryson
distance technology creating
The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves. Beth Simone Noveck
distance mean reality
Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality. Bill Vaughan
distance helped massively miles running time
That was the first time I've ever done distance running. Running 3.1 miles has massively helped with endurance. Cody Irwin
distance great huge supposed win
That win in the 400 was huge for us. He is supposed to be a distance guy, but he has a lot of range. He had a great day. Dave Sellon
distance executing expanding extremely future growth markets position
We have an expanding position in the growth markets of the future ? wireless, data, broadband, long distance ? and we're executing extremely well in these areas, Ivan Seidenberg
distance gained gradually open return rock
I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools. Raymond Bonner
would-be understood
I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally. Arsenio Hall
would-be opinion easier
Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if it were not, truth would be easier to come by than it is. Bertrand Russell
would-be faults seagull
If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
would-be want homework
Before I forget, here's your homework. Where do you want me to put it?" She pointed at the trash can. "Right there would be fine. Becca Fitzpatrick
would-be colony
What was life like in the colonies? Probably the best word to describe it would be "colonial". Dave Barry
would-be jason patient
So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately. Alan Thicke
would-be flattery vain
flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery. Charlotte Bronte
would-be overwhelmed numb
That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy. Alanis Morissette
would-be film bigs
I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible. Chloe Sevigny
earth earthly eternal happiness higher individual knowledge life none object purpose serve sustained
Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race. Ellen Key
earth events global means outside planet solar though threatened within
The planet Earth, though not threatened with destruction by man-made global warming, is by no means indestructible. There are many unpredictable events within our solar system, and still more outside it, that could make Earth uninhabitable by humans. Paul Johnson
earth bows narnia
You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content. C. S. Lewis
earth monkeys apes
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth. Carl Sagan
earth ruins ifs
If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go Carl Sagan
earth throw
That would be the stupidest thing on Earth we could do. It would throw us back into the 1970s. John Felmy
earthquake half safe source
Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water. Marcus Samuelsson
earthquake money plays raising surprises teaches victims
My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in Nepal. Every day she surprises me and teaches me something. Patti Smith
earth fortune
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure! Petrarch