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• I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Might, Distance

• Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strength, Distance, Point

• The number of medals on an officer’s breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Number, Distance

• Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

  Robert Morgan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Distance, Nostalgia

• While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance.

  William Dampier

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Distance, Followed

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Geographical, Distance
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  Beautiful things happen in your life when you distance yourself from all the negative things.

  Unknown

  Topics in Beauty, Life

  Tags in Distance, Happen

• Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

  W Eugene Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Photography, Distance

• There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.

  Aaron Copland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Distance, Strange

• In the past, presidents set up buffers to distance themselves from covert action. But this president, who is breaking down the boundaries between covert action and conventional war, seems to relish the secret findings and the dirty details of operations.

  A. John Radsan

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Conventional, Distance, Operations
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  Just because we don’t talk doesn’t mean I don’t think about you. I’m just trying to distance myself because I know I can’t have you.

   

  Wiz Khalifa

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Distance
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  A thousand miles seems pretty far but they’ve got planes and trains and cars I’d walk to you if I had no other way.

  Unknown

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Distance, Way

• Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soul mate should be in Thailand.

  Jason Zebehazy

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Contempt, According, Fonder, Distance, Familiarity, Breed

• For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.

  George Linnaeus Banks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Resistance, Assistance, Wrong, Distance, Lacks, Aid

• Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Distance, Darkness

• A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

  Zora Neale Hurston

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  Tags in Shrink, Distance, Mighty

• Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Tags in Fill, Worth, Distance, Run, Minute

• Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.

  Andre Agassi

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Pillars, Distance, Interest
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  You know it’s true love when no matter how far the distance is he can still make you smile.

  Unknown

  Topics in Love, Smile

  Tags in Distance, Know, Far, Still

• One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Defects, Qualities, Range, Distance, Sees