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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety. – Daniel J. Boorstin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul. People smoke to celebrate a happy moment, or to hide a bitter regret. Whether you're alone or with friends, it's a joy for all the senses. What lovelier sight is there than that double row of white cigarettes, lined up like soldiers on parade and wrapped in silver paper? I love to touch the pack in my pocket, open it, savor the feel of the cigarette between my fingers, the paper on my lips, the taste of tobacco on my tongue. I love to watch the flame spurt up, love to watch it come closer and closer, filling me with its warmth. – Luis Buñuel	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. – Arthur Miller	added by anonymous 10 years ago
All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence. – Luis Buñuel	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise. – Andrew Young	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We are who we are, within our power and freedom. More power and more freedom we have, more we become closer to who we truly are. – Jude J	added by anonymous 11 years ago
The farther away, the closer the home becomes. – Dejan Stojanovic	added by anonymous 11 years ago
'Everyday that passes is one day closer to that future golden moment' – William Davis	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize. – Frederic Joliot-Curie, quoted by M.A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza	added by anonymous 13 years ago
...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation. – R. A. Salvatore, Siege of Darkness	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. – Sun-tzu	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To be closer to God, be closer to people. – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence. – Barbara Cook	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The MOUSE , The KEYBOARD and The Monitor over the years came closer and closer and became a family known as LAPTOP – Siddharth Astir	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. – Og Mandino	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. – G. C. Lichtenberg	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be. – Jerry Seinfeld	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself. – Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us closer to the secret of the 'Old One.' I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God. – Deepak Chopra	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things. – Emily Elizabeth Dickinson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth. – David Frost	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. – Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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