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Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

Socrates
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley
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REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

Ambrose Bierce
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

Samuel Johnson
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This is the nearest we've got to prehistoric film where you can see someone's heel slip in the mud as they're running fast.

Steve Webb
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You just try to cut the kite string of the person nearest you.

Harry Parmar
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For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.

Joseph Conrad
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I think it's a bit of a panic to jump out of the nearest escape hatch.

Ross Finnie
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We figure this is about a $1 billion - $1.5 billion industry and we are at least eight to ten times bigger than our nearest competitor. In other words, there's a whole lot of that apple left to eat.

Stuart Clark
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I am my nearest neighbour.

Cornelius Tacitus
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In a Sea Rescue Emergency call 082911. The operator will put you in direct contact with the nearest sea rescue control centre to where the emergency is taking place.

Craig Lambinon
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People are being taken to the nearest dry spot then the helicopter's going back and picking up more people.

Larry Chambers
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Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.

John Osborne
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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

William Mckinley
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If the knockoff economy were a business, it would be the world's biggest, twice the size of Wal-Mart, its nearest competitor.

Tim Phillips
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We have a number of people we just dispatched all day long to go to the nearest place where the water is problematic.

George Hecht
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We are, all of us, calling and calling across the incalculable gulfs which separate us even from our nearest friends.

David Gayson
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Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle
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When the winds pick up above 35 or 40 mph, you might as well hang it up and hit the nearest bar.

Travis Wolfe
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The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

Marguerite Duras
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The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Byron R. White
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The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

James F. Byrnes
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The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.

Charlotte Curtis
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The level of compensation hasn't been changed since 1984. Of the 15 nearest cities, our mayor and council are paid the least. That is a gross injustice.

David Segal
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Yeah, but it costs 17 cents a bushel to truck the wheat from the field to Collins (the nearest 110-car loader).

Gary Gollehon
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Jane Grigson is the nearest thing that we have on this side of the great green bouillabaisse to M F K Fisher. with learning and wit that are rarely devoted to such a banausic subject as stuffing food down one's cake hole.

Philip Howard
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If you're not comfortable getting out, motion the other driver to follow you to the nearest police station, gas station, hospital or fire station.

Paul Gonzales
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This boils down to regional homeland security, ... the nearest fighter jets available [to the Pacific Northwest] in an emergency may be as far away as Fresno, Calif.

Maria Cantwell
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We're announcing products that put us literally years ahead of our nearest competitors in terms of performance.

Tom Engibous
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It was a truly frightening moment because we knew the potential danger we were in especially as we were out in the middle of the sea hundreds of miles from the nearest land.

Joe Caddick
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