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“You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.”
Ivan Turgenev
Friendship
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Soul
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Distance
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Surface
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Relationship
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“I went to a restaurant with my friend, and he said, “Pass the salt.” I said, “Screw you! Sit closer to the salt.””
Mitch Hedberg
Restaurant
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Salt
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Distance
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Sharing
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Humor
3.
“I got binoculars ’cause I don’t want to go that close.”
Mitch Hedberg
Binoculars
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Distance
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Observation
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Close
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Perspective
4.
“Presents, I often say, endear absents.”
Charles Lamb
Gifts
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Memory
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Love
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Connection
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Distance
5.
“Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o’er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o’er sea or land we roam?”
Charles Lamb
Home
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Nostalgia
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Distance
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Emotion
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Memory
6.
“I saw a sign: “Rest Area 25 Miles”. That’s pretty big. Some people must be really tired.”
Steven Wright
Signs
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Travel
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Rest
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Distance
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Humor
7.
“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”
Steven Wright
Distance
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Time
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Perspective
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Humor
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Irony
8.
“Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.”
Steven Wright
Distance
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Time
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Perspective
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Walking
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Patience
9.
“Sometimes moving out saves the relationship you have with your parents.”
Ankur Warikoo
Distance
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Relationships
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Parents
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Independence
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Harmony
10.
“Never in history has distance meant less.”
Alvin Toffler
Distance
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Connectivity
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Change
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Technology
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Globalization
11.
“We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father’s side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.”
V.S. Naipaul
Heritage
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Family
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Identity
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Memory
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Distance
12.
“Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Though you are singing somewhere still, I can no longer hear you.”
Leonard Cohen
Farewell
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Love
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Distance
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Longing
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Loss
13.
“It’s you my love, you who are the stranger.”
Leonard Cohen
Love
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Mystery
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Distance
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Emotion
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Reflection
14.
“So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed, It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed, It’s like our visit to the moon or to that other star, I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.”
Leonard Cohen
Love
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Disillusionment
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Journey
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Distance
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Emotion
15.
“The brother and sister talked till midnight without understanding each other.”
Anton Chekhov
Miscommunication
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Relationships
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Family
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Distance
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Misunderstanding
16.
“He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.”
Chanakya
Love
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Distance
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Relationships
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Connection
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Emotion
17.
“The years have come and gone without a single word from you. Only the sky above us do we hold in common. I look at it often as if, somehow, reflected from its immensities, I will one day find myself gazing into your eyes.”
Alice Walker
Longing
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Separation
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Memories
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Distance
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Connection
18.
“Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.”
Charlie Chaplin
Perspective
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Laughter
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Tragedy
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Life
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Distance
19.
“The more we distance negativity, the more we get closer to happiness.”
BK Shivani
Negativity
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Distance
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Happiness
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Mindset
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Positivity
20.
“The more we distance ourselves from negativity, the more we get closer to happiness.”
BK Shivani
Negativity
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Happiness
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Positivity
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Distance
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Mindset
21.
“The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.”
Moliere
Love
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Distance
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Longing
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Emotion
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Separation
22.
“Deference and intimacy live far apart.”
Moliere
Respect
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Distance
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Relationships
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Hierarchy
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Formality
23.
“To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant.”
Thomas Carlyle
Perspective
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Wonder
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Distance
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Appreciation
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Vision
24.
“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
Thomas Carlyle
Business
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Distance
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Focus
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Clarity
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Action
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“This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can’t touch anything and nothing can touch you.”
Chuck Palahniuk
Insomnia
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Distance
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Isolation
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Sleep
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Perception
26.
“I believe absence is a great element of charm.”
Benjamin Disraeli
Absence
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Charm
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Attraction
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Relationships
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Distance
27.
“It's easy to demonize from a distance.”
Rick Warren
Demonization
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Perspective
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Distance
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Judgment
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Understanding
28.
“I can go all over the world with Skype.”
Ram Dass
Technology
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Connection
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Communication
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Distance
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Global
29.
“No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder.”
George Washington
Lovers
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Distance
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Anxious Hearts
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Eternal Bond
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Separation
30.
“Distance doesn’t exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.”
Yoko Ono
Distance
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Time
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Love
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Music
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Connection
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