"When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person."

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Sally Ride

#Distance Quotes #Bad Ass Quotes #Used Quotes

“I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.”
“It's hard to put my music in a specific genre, but if you had to, "instrumental cyber metal" would be an accurate one.”
“In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.”

Source : William Dampier (2012). “A Voyage to New Holland”, p.27, tredition
“I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea.”
“I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.”
“Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.”
“What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.”
“In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.”

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