Henry David Thoreau on distance
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
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Bill VaughanBill Vaughan My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
Bill RodgersBill Rodgers Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception.
Bill BrysonBill Bryson The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can’t quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don’t altogether know, filled with matter we can’t identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand.
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