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• From afar, it seems like a war without a solution and like a long sacrifice for the entire country. So when a president appears who tries to open a path to peace, I think that deserves support, because there is a lot of pain, and if they try to settle scores, the war will never end. But there is an opportunity. I would feel selfish if I did not help in any way.

  Jose Mujica

  Country, Pain, Powerful

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• There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not the simpler it is to understand.

  Susan Meiselas

  Photography, Thinking, Complexes

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• While he was watching the ships, Buttercup shoved him with all her strength remaining. [...] Down went the man in black. [...] "You can die too for all I care," she said, and then she turned away. Words followed her. Whispered from far, weak and warm and familiar. "As...you...wish..."

  William Goldman

  Men, Black, Wish

  "The Princess Bride". Book by William Goldman, 1973.

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• Unremembered and afar
  I watched as I watched a star,
  Through darkness struggling into view
  And I loved you better than you knew.

  Elizabeth Chase Allen

  Sexy, Stars, Struggle

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• A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Integrity, Patriotic, Men

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• Both angels and demons are ignorant of the future, yet they make predictions. The angels do so when God reveals the future to them and commands them to prophesy, and what they prophesy comes to pass. Demons also make predictions, but these are only guesses based on what they see from afar.

  John of Damascus

  Angel, Ignorant, Demon

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• Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last, In things best known to you, finding the best, or as good as the best, In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest; Happiness, knowledge, not in another place, but this place-not for another hour, but this hour.

  Walt Whitman

  Lasts, Hours, Folks

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.97, NYU Press

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• We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who are adults can't really lay their hands on us unless they want to be gay-bashers and go to jail. They abuse us from afar and in the abstract, they abuse us with checkbooks and ballots, but their kids go to school on Monday morning. And there's a gay kid. And they feel they have license to beat that gay kid up in a way that I don't think they did when I was in school. I think it's gotten worse.

  Dan Savage

  Monday, Morning, War

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.

  Blaise Pascal

  Names, House, Tree

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• how seasonably
  leaf and blossom uncurl
  and living things arrange their death,
  while someone from afar off
  blows birthday candles for the world.

  Irving Layton

  Blow, World, Mortality

  Irving Layton (1977). “The Selected Poems of Irving Layton”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• I never have been a musician; I'm not actually capable. Because I can't even pretend to acquire the gift, all of my first feelings about art are still attached to music. I look at it yearningly, I look at it wonderingly. I behold it from afar, as something unattainable, something outside of myself, from which I can take nourishment, but I can't domesticate and master.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Feelings, Musician

  "Music, Influence, and 'Deeply Unnecessary' Art". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. March 17, 2015.

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• I see the world as a temporary site-specific installation, structures, infrastructures, the foundation of our sense of belonging and our identity, seen from afar, as a great scale model: the city as an avatar of itself.

  Olivo Barbieri

  Cities, Identity, Foundation

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• Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress. I knew the actors and the paparazzi. It was just kind of always in my landscape. It was never directed at me, but it was always somewhere so I could see how it operated and I could see it from afar and go 'Wow, that's not really glamorous, it's kind of exhausting not having any privacy.' So it was never something I pursued. The first time I saw the billboard for Pretty Little Liars I almost got into a car accident!

  Troian Bellisario

  Liars, Car, Actors

  "Exclusive Troian Bellisario Interview". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.seventeen.com. January 28, 2011.

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• I try not to cover Sudan from afar. I feel really uncomfortable writing about Sudan when I'm not there. It always looks different. When you're outside Sudan it's easy to lose sight of how much of what happens is driven by local politics. And when you're in America in particular, there's this sense that what D.C. has to say is the only thing that counts. Unsurprisingly people in Sudan don't feel the same way.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Writing, Sight, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The person that always comes to mind, and it's odd now because we've become pals, is Ben Folds. I've always considered him like a musical older brother, from afar, in the sense that I always felt I had a much better understanding of what he was singing about five years after I was listening to it.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Brother, Years, Understanding

  "#ManCrushMonday: Jason Sudeikis". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 29, 2016.

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• With Steven Meisel, I'd looked at his work from afar and always loved it, and when I started to work with him, I was blown away. He taught me so much about looking at women and looking at images.

  Guido Palau

  Taught, Blown Away, Steven Meisel

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Sea, Shining

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• I'm interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold the space of a wall or interact in a room with each other.

  Stephen Beal

  Wall, Space, Examination

  Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. Novemeber 19, 2010.

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• The great thing is anytime you see an artist that has a piece of what I've already done, you can see it from afar. 'He's doing that lil' hammer right there' - whether it's the energy, the swag or the look - it's a blessing.

  MC Hammer

  Artist, Blessing, Swag

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. There are no heretics in Nature's church; all are believers, all are communicants. The beauty of natural religion is that you have it all the time; you do not have to seek it afar off in myths and legends, in catacombs, in garbled texts, in miracles of dead saints or wine-bibbing friars. It is of today; it is now and here; it is everywhere.

  John Burroughs

  Mother, Religious, Heart

  Bertrand Russell, John Burroughs, Herbert Faulkner West (1959). “Two modern essays on religion: A free man's worship”

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• What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine.

  Felicia Hemans

  War, Jewels, Sea

  Felicia Hemans (1850). “Records of Woman, with Other Poems”, p.135, University Press of Kentucky

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• I’m not saying that maybe there isn’t a kid out there whose behavior hasn’t been influenced by me in some way. I’m sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you’d asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I’d admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that’d be a yes, totally.

  Pete Doherty

  Kids, People, Musician

  "New Again: Pete Doherty". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2016.

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• Remember that in a hall of perfect darkness, totally dark, if you light one small candle, its light will be seen from afar; its precious light will be seen by everyone.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Dark, Light, Perfect

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• A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.

  Bryan Procter

  Stars, Night, Jewels

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• So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
  Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
  And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
  To be commenced in stronds afar remote.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Care, Breathe

  William Shakespeare (2004). “CliffsComplete King Henry IV”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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