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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
two way poet
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. C. S. Lewis
two commandments knows
I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them. C. S. Lewis
two differences looks
When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two. Cecelia Ahern
two tides sometimes
I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out. Carrie Fisher
two swings guy
There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects. Carrie Fisher
two feelings mind
Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body, feelings and intellect, would be obliterated. Carl Rogers
two enemy stronger
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline. Carl Sagan
two government firsts
First rule in government spending: Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price? Carl Sagan
two age leisure
A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work. Bill Bryson
useless adaptability term
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless. Bill Bryson
use want might
If Facebook gets your entire social graph, you don't necessarily want to share everything with your entire social graph. You might wanna parse that social graph. So there's a company called PASS that is a private social network that I personally use for my friends and my family. Ashton Kutcher
use instruments creator
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. Antoine Lavoisier
use professional-competence philosopher
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery. Bertrand Russell
useful
That was a very useful thing, and is something that was very much appreciated. Ken Leavitt
use retiring
I never use that word, retire. B. B. King
use fuel feels
When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it. Diane von Furstenberg
use fronts
You don't have to just do what's planned, you can take what's immediately in front of you and use that. Dexter Fletcher
used composer stills
Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe. Dhani Harrison