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I don't want families to be separated by very, very long distances.
Annastacia Palaszczuk
/
Distances
Separated
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Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Singer
Car
Distance
Rain
Distances
Shine
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At extreme distances, there is essentially no such thing as depth of field.
Trevor Paglen
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Artist
Depth
Extreme
Distances
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I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest.
Shannon Miller
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Gymnast
Bursts
Distances
Fastest
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On immigration, the League and Five Star's positions start from notable distances.
Matteo Salvini
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Italian Politician
Immigration
Notable
Distances
Positions
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Genetically I think I'm more equipped for long distances than high-intensity sprints.
Gylfi Sigurdsson
/
Distances
Equipped
Genetically
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The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.
Johannes Kepler
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Mathematician
Cubes
Squares
Distances
Periodic
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
Jacky Ickx
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Racing Driver
Distance
Hours
Long
Racing
Retired
Years
Distances
Drove
Mans
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As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns.
Lawrence M. Krauss
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Physicist
Ordinary
Physicist
Rational
Concerns
Distances
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I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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Athletics
Titles
Achieving
Distances
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I've played at five World Cups, including one in the U.S. where the distances between the stadiums were also big.
Lothar Matthaus
/
Cups
Stadiums
Distances
World Cups
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Hopefully, I can get multiple distances out there and re-establish myself as one of the best jumpers in the world.
Greg Rutherford
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Athlete
Multiple
Best Myself World
Distances
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For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.
Robert Kiyosaki
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Investor
Energy
Suburbs
Wealth
Rise
Commute
Distances
Prices
Sink
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Many run primarily for the exercise, but others run to condition themselves for well-publicized races of various distances.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Businessman
Condition
Distances
Primarily
Races
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All kinds of physical considerations become senseless when we try to apply them to distances smaller than 10 -13 centimeter.
George Gamow
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Physicist
Considerations
Distances
Senseless
Smaller
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We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.
Jill Tarter
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Astronomer
Technology
Distance
Use
Distances
Identify
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Longer distances yield local media coverage that tends to be more one-dimensional and absolute, less nuanced, and more sporadic.
Daniel Lubetzky
/
Coverage
Media Coverage
Yield
Absolute
One-Dimensional
Distances
Local
Tends
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Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer. The ability to judge distances when running in traffic.
Sebastian Coe
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British Politician
Defined
Traffic
Judge
Distances
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Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.
Ricky Jay
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Magician
Cards
Nineteenth Century
Weapons
Distances
First One
Magicians
Nineteenth
Threw
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The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.
Ella Maillart
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Writer
Horizon
Anywhere
Distances
Geographic
Otherwise
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Many of Mississippi's veterans and their families know the hardship associated with driving long distances to access VA healthcare benefits.
Cindy Hyde-Smith
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Hardship
Healthcare
Mississippi
Associated
Distances
Va
Veterans
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I think there's all kinds of life out there, including intelligent life, but the reason we haven't found each other is because of vast distances.
Leroy Chiao
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Engineer
Intelligent
Intelligent Life
Distances
Vast
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Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.
Dolph Lundgren
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Actor
Running
Alive
Animal
Distance
Function
Work Walk Your
Animals
Carry
Distances
Forest
Walk
Hunt
Trek
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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
Brian Eno
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Musician
Brother
Differences
Distance
Drag
Just One
Philosophical
Brothers
Distances
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Of course, it is the case that conservatism as I envisage it distances itself always from abstract conceptions and tries to find the concrete reality.
Roger Scruton
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Philosopher
Abstract
Concrete
Conservatism
Distances
Envisage
Tries
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Golf is basically about geometry and your ability to gauge how things are, the terrain, the distances, and exerting the right amount of swing and force.
Jaggi Vasudev
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Philanthropist
Geometry
Terrain
Distances
Exerting
Gauge
Swing
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The car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.
Fritz Todt
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Engineer
Animal
Jumping
Distances
Resembles
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We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.
Yitzhak Shamir
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Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Distance
Israel
Nations
Organization
United Nations
Uprising
Cares
Distances
Whoever
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The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances.
Georges Cuvier
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Naturalist
Layers
Variation
Distances
Extent
Great Extent
Limited
Subject
Uniform
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Kyle Walker thinks he's quicker than me. In games, it's different: you run different distances, players are in different positions, so I don't know. But one day, we will see!
Leroy Sane
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Me Day Will
Distances
Positions
Quicker
Walker
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
Italo Calvino
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Journalist
Travel
Cities
Clouds
Continents
Differences
Distance
Dust
Form
Lost
Order
Cloud
Exchange
Distances
Each
Places
Realize
Resembling
Takes
Traveling
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Yes, my dad's a marathoner. He used to do sprint distances and then started marathoning. My mom is an endurance animal. She does three-day events like the Susan G. Komen three-day walk.
Dean Karnazes
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Author
Animal
Endurance
Sprint
Distances
Susan
Three-Day
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Shoot, after you've been through freeway traffic in Houston or Dallas, there's no road in the world that can scare you. Besides, we're pretty much used to driving long distances in Texas.
Gib Lewis
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Politician
Dallas
Distance
Driving
Houston
Long
Scare
Texas
Traffic
Used
Pretty
Besides
Distances
Freeway
Shoot
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As an athlete you want to be able to choose something that you haven't already achieved. Is it different distances, or do you come back and defend your titles? It depends what your coach says.
Mo Farah
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Athlete
Depends
Titles
Achieved
Coach
Defend
Distances
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We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.
Steven Weber
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Actor
War
Distance
Fighting
Wars
Distances
Element
Heights
Historically
Human Element
Personal Experience
Removing
Steadily
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With pollution from traffic a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, we should be building a transport and planning system that makes car-free travel for shorter distances the norm for the majority.
Caroline Lucas
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
Emissions
Gas
Norm
Planning
Pollution
Traffic
Transport
Distances
Greenhouse
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I love long-range rifle shooting. I like anything that deals with precision. I also find that with archery. On my ranch, I have my own range with 3-D targets of animals and hay bales from different distances.
Paul Walker
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Actor
Archery
Deals
Hay
Precision
Range
Shooting
Animals
Distances
Ranch
Rifle
Targets
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Terraforming our moon will take many decades and vast abilities. Before we can begin, we'll have to master the resources of our solar system - especially transporting raw masses over interplanetary distances.
Gregory Benford
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Fictioneer
Decades
Moon
Solar System
Distances
Vast
Masses
Raw
Solar
Transporting
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In the Twenties and Thirties, refrigerated railcars allowed growers to transport apples over great distances, and, thanks to cold-storage warehouses, wholesalers and retailers could keep them for long periods of time.
John Seabrook
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Journalist
Apples
Periods
Thanks
Transport
Twenties
Time Great Long
Time Great Keep
Allowed
Distances
Long Periods
Thirties
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In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Journalist
Blood
Intense
Miles
Muscles
Oxygen
Red
Skiing
Ten
Athletes
Challenge
Deliver
Distances
Physical
Propel
Twenty
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I'm a firm believer in the connection between the body and the mind: feed one, feed both. I like to run, but only short distances, and fast. I'm no good at long distance. More than six miles, and the knees start to go.
Matt Haig
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Novelist
Believer
Distance
Firm
Miles
Six
Good Mind Long
Feed
Connection
Distances
Fast
Short
Firm Believer
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I do theoretical particle physics. We're trying to understand the most basic structure of matter. And the way you do that is you have to look at really small distances. And to get to small distances, you need high energies.
Lisa Randall
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Physicist
Physics
Structure
Theoretical
Basic
Distances
Energies
Particle
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Women's marathoning was not added as an Olympic medal event until 1984 due to unfounded and bizarre concerns among Olympic organizers about women's ability to run longer distances. It was finally added after much campaigning.
Mary Pilon
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Bizarre
Campaigning
Medal
Added
Concerns
Due
Distances
Event
Olympic
Olympic Medal
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The north coast of Brittany is eaten into bays from which the sea retreats to considerable distances, and is fringed with reefs and islands. It is a favourite resort of Parisians throughout its stretch, from Dinard to Plestin.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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Brittany
Coast
Favourite
Islands
Sea
Considerable
Distances
Eaten
North
Resort
Retreats
Stretch
Throughout
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Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun.
Seth Shostak
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Astronomer
Measuring
Moon
Research
Sun
Tenure
Track
Track Record
Academics
Astronomical
Somewhere
Distances
Guaranteed
Included
Record
Invented
Note
Stack
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In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
J. Donald Walters
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Planet Earth
Appear
Distances
Island
However
Planet
Situated
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The family unit is very interesting because these are people that you're supposed to be the closest to in your life, and yet that's where you find the greatest distances between people as well - especially between parents and kids.
Taika Waititi
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Film Director
Closest
Family Unit
Life Family Your
Life Family Parents
Distances
Unit
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I just sing. But I have a fun hobby: I love to do archery. I'm pretty good on target. I'm not sure about the distances - maybe only 7 or 10 feet, so far, but I've scored the bull's eye several times, but usually always hit the target.
Jackie Evancho
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Singer
Archery
Distance
Eye
Feet
Fun
Target
Love Good Always
Sure
Pretty
Hit
Bull
Love Good Fun
Distances
Times
Far
Maybe
Pretty Good
Several
Sing
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I want to run a marathon in the immediate future. In the future future, I want to do ironmans. I cycle long distances. The only thing I have to work on is the swimming. I'm a good swimmer, but I've never done long distances like that.
Ray Allen
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Basketball Player
Marathon
Swimmer
Future Work Good
Cycle
Distances
Work Future Good
Immediate
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Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.
Michael Sata
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England
Humiliated
Long Hours
Work Me Long
Work Long Me
Degraded
Distances
Working
Helped
Hour
Manual
Spent
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