Proximity Quotes

• The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Inspirational, Trials, Absence

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• The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, Path, Danger

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.69, Penguin

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• I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

  Ben Nicholson

  Believe, Pluralism, Agnostic

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• Success leaves clues, Proximity is power. Love your family, CHOOSE your peers.

  Tony Robbins

  Love You, Peers, Clue

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• Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.

  Auberon Waugh

  Talking, Wish, Purpose

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• I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

  Joe Lieberman

  Leadership, Consensus Building, Democracy

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• Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Pride, Loss

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• Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.

  Camille Paglia

  Military, Exercise, Men

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• In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

  Robert Benton

  Children, Taken, America

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of the culture to try to learn at least one other language. So my parents really encourage it in the house. Chinese would be really great to learn - like Mandarin or Cantonese. Portuguese would be incredible.

  Stana Katic

  Thinking, House, Parent

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• The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.

  Sun Tzu

  Home, Army, Loss

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

  Joan Armatrading

  Important, Want, Argument

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• The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.

  Deborah Cox

  Powerful, Theatre, Clubs

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• I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.

  Michael Sandel

  Philosophy, Moving, Political

  "Michael Sandel: This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.

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• Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Character, Power, Men

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• The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Faithful, Church

  Pope Francis (2017). “The Works of Mercy”, p.15, Orbis Books

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• The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Leadership, True Leader, Lifts

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Proximity is power. If you can get proximity with people that are the best in the world, things can happen because all of the people they know, the insights they have and the life experience they have. They can save you a decade of time by one insight.

  Tony Robbins

  People, World, Life Experience

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• Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering...wh o see the greatness in you!

  Wayne Dyer

  Greatness, People, Empowering

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• Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.

  David Levithan

  Distance, Magic, Amplify

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.29, Egmont UK

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• I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that's just due to proximity. Just because of distance, we get a lot more cultural spillover from America.

  Chad Kroeger

  Distance, Differences, America

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. October 26, 2012.

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• Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other.

  David Spangler

  Commitment, Thinking, People

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• The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.

  Iris Murdoch

  Loneliness, Games, Soul

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.89, Penguin

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• Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.

  Julian Baggini

  Europe, Differences, Mind

  "Why the white cliffs of Dover are so special" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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• Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.

  Bill Parcells

  Creatures, Closest

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