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• I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

  Milla Jovovich

  School, Being Popular, Pathetic

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• the breeze brought us a faint sound, as of a distant rat, a huge and mystic rat, gnawing, maybe, at the horizon!

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Weather, Sound, Rats

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• Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sight, Dragons, Eagles

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• People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.262, Harvard University Press

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• After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.

  Gene Cernan

  America, Space, Interesting

  "This much I know". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.

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• We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.

  Cargill Gilston Knott

  Past, Vision, Doubt

  "Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait: supplementing the two volumes of Scientific papers published in 1898 and 1900". Book by Cargill Gilston Knott, p. 1, 1911.

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• We should expect hope's reciprocity as a natural flowering of the life of hope. Helping others and nurturing hope is expressive of hopefulness itself. It is an extension of the hopeful self to reach out to others, promoting the connection of agency and the enrichment of horizons of meaning. Hope's reciprocity grows out of the very social nature of hope; we thus frequently see it live in family relations, in intimacy, in love. And so hope spreads. This spreading should not surprise us; like love, it is freely given, fostered, and nurtured.

  Patrick Shade

  Helping Others, Self, Like Love

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• Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.

  Peter Kline

  Skills, Imagination, Focus

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• The strange thing about the sunset is that we actually don't want the sun to set, we want it to stay right on the horizon, not below it, not above it, just right on it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sunset, Want, Strange

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• The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.

  Willard Scott

  Clouds, Years, Vision

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• The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap. As spring gave way to summer, the bright green stalks darkened, became tan, turned golden brown. The days grew long and hot. Thick towers of swirling black clouds brought rain, and the brown stems glistened in the perpetual twilight that dwelled beneath the canopy. The wheat rose and the ripening heads bent in the prairie wind, a rippling curtain, an endless, undulating sea that stretched to the horizon.

  Rick Yancey

  Summer, Spring, Rain

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.11, Penguin

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• What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Eye, Light, Folly

  Scarlett Thomas (2008). “The End Of Mr. Y”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• The sun sank with a sob and darkness waded in from all horizons so that the sky contracted and there was no more light left in the world, when, at this very moment of annihilation, the moon, as though she had been waiting for her cue, sailed up the night.

  Mervyn Peake

  Moon, Night, Light

  Mervyn Peake (2008). “Titus Alone”, p.17, The Overlook Press

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• People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.

  John H. McWhorter

  Dog, Latin, People

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• Leaving high school. It's sad and you're going to miss all your friends. You're going to miss your life and you've been doing that for the past four years, and it's comfortable. But now, there's something possibly bigger on the horizon, just new and fresh and exciting. I think we all kind of felt like that.

  Matt Lanter

  School, Thinking, Past

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• There's no more delicious irony on the face of the Earth than environmental protesters being led away in plastic handcuffs that have a biodegradability horizon line of, like, 40,000 years.

  Dennis Miller

  Years, Environmental, Earth

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Surfing teaches patience . On land, surfers cannot will a swell to appear. They have to wait for nature to make the call. So surfers wait . They keep their eyes on the horizon and they wait.

  Shaun Tomson

  Eye, Land, Waiting

  Shaun Tomson, Patrick J. Moser (2006). “Surfer's Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life”, p.43, Gibbs Smith

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• The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough.

  Bill Maher

  Funny, Sex, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You've seen the world, and all you've seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You've sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you've treasured up at home are nothing.

  Omar Khayyam

  Home, World, Said

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• Amid the gray, an incongruous band of daytime blue asserts itself. To the west, a pink sun already begins its descent. The effect is of three isolated aspects, distinct phases of the day. All of it, strewn across the horizon, is contained in his vision.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Blue, Vision, Three

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• Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

  Ken Baumann

  Art, Practice, Far Away

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• The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Self, Personality, World

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• A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.

  Dalai Lama

  Strong, Roots, Tree

  The Dalai Lama (2012). “The Essence Of Happiness”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.

  Leslie Jamison

  Mean, Knowing, Imagination

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.8, Granta Books

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• Once you have met a true human being,
  Let him not disappear from the horizon of your HEART.

  Rumi

  Heart, Disappear, Mets

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