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The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
Action
Noelie Alito

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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Laughter
Victor Borge

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Action
Thomas Carlyle

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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
Present
Thomas Carlyle

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Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
Admiration
Denis Diderot

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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
Ideals and Idealism
John Galsworthy

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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
Age and Aging
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
Prayer
Ivan Illich

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Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
Perspective
Samuel Johnson

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There are charms made only for distance admiration.
Charm
Samuel Johnson

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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Words
Karl Kraus

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.
Happiness
Julius Robert Oppenheimer

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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Sorrow
Jean Paul Richter

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.
Politicians and Politics
John P. Roche

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Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
Violence
Leon Trotsky

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
Success
Source Unknown

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The distance between success and failure can only be measured by one's desire.
Desire
Source Unknown

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.
Laughter
Source Unknown

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For time is the longest distance between two places.
Time and Time Management
Tennessee Williams

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun