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• You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash-it requires long distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning, and evangelizing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Emotional, Skills, Creating

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• People who write about issues like poverty or terrorism are a part of the elite, and the distance between the elite and nonelite is growing very fast. You can move around the world but meet only people who speak your language, who share the same ideas, the same beliefs, and in doing so you can lose sight of the fact that the vast majority of the world does not think or believe in or speak the everyday discourse of the elite.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Believe, Moving, Writing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• It's important to keep up with technology, to constantly move with it. Striving to do so keeps me alert and creates a sense of fluidity but at the same time I like to distance myself from it. It's key for my process to try and remain outside the bubble.

  Marc Forster

  Moving, Technology, Keys

  Interview with Octavio Molina, www.askmen.com.

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• Your core is so important. Get your endurance up. Running and long-distance. Swimming is good as well. Important to have a good core, utilize the proper exercises to strengthen it. It goes out to the rest of your body and makes sure your body is right.

  Jozy Altidore

  Running, Exercise, Swimming

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• Ironman distance triathlons are a true test of oneself as a whole. Each race is a test of physical, mental and spiritual toughness that I haven't found in any other type of racing. At the end of the day, challenging myself on all levels is what it's about for me.

  Timothy O'Donnell

  Spiritual, Race, Challenges

  "Triathlon Gear". Interview with Chris Aung-Thwin, www.askmen.com.

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• I've had to realize I need to distance myself a bit from relying on the feedback. I think it's wonderful but can also be poison. You don't want to buy into it too much.

  Matt McGorry

  Thinking, Poison, Needs

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• All of my life, actually, I had a real strong relationship with God, but I was always in the closet about it. The only distance out of the closet I really want to come there is having my tattoo or wearing my t-shirt.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Tattoo, Strong, Real

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Many who have nothing opposed to the few who have everything, and as long as these disparities remain, as long as these distances remain between people and forces, I think we'll be in a perpetual state of upheaval.

  Harry Belafonte

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Actor-activist Harry Belafonte, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 30, 2011.

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• Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Noble, Neighbor, Should

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.237, Macmillan

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• The less you obey the Word of God, the more you distance yourself from God in the spiritual realm

  Sunday Adelaja

  Spiritual, Realms, Word Of God

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• Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.

  George Edward Moore

  Men, Wish, Opinion

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• If you do not have the concept of distance, you may reach an unreachable place!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  May, Unreachable, Ifs

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• Just like the dead and deserted Moon, all things appear to be beautiful from far distance!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Moon, All Things

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• As you put your sights on your goals — no matter how great and compelling they are — as you look into the distance, don’t forget what is right in front of you today. No matter how great your dreams, no matter how great your destiny, the biggest thing you can do in any day is a small act of kindness.

  Cory Booker

  Dream, Kindness, Destiny

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• We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations, we had hoped that our distance and our dispositions would have left us free, in the example and indulgence of peace with all the world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Example, World

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.115, Algora Publishing

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• Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be ashamed of [and that] we should take science fiction seriously.

  Michio Kaku

  Thinking, Fiction, Want

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• Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.

  Henri Nouwen

  Compassion, Judgement, Distinction

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• Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Sides

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• Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general.

  Sun Tzu

  Enemy, Victory, Degrees

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• Contemplate the wonders of creation, the Divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from a distance, but as the reality in which you live.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Reality, Dimensions, Wonder

  Abraham Isaac Kook, Ben Zion Bokser (1978). “Abraham Isaac Kook: The Lights of Penitence, The Moral Principles, Lights of Holiness, Essays, Letters, and Poems”, p.207, Paulist Press

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• If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.

  Aaron Levie

  People, Levels, Company

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• Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask the moral questions.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Cancer, Broken

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• All things of the sea belong to Venus; pearls and
  shells and alchemists' gold and kelp and the riggish
  smell of neap tides, the inshore green, and purple
  further out and the joy of distances and the roar of
  falling masonry, all these are hers, but she doesn't
  come out of the sea for all of us.

  John Cheever

  Fall, Sea, Purple

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Complete Novels”

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• Most people would rather change their circumstances to improve their lives when instead they need to change themselves to improve their circumstances. They put in just enough effort to distance themselves from their problems without ever trying to go after the root, which can often be found in themselves. Because they don't try to change the source of their problems, their problems keep coming back at them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Often Is, Roots, People

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• Until you have heard the whippoowill, either nearby or in the fain - distance, you have not experienced summer night.

  Henry Hough

  Summer, Night, Heard

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