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• Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

  Sam Neill

  Eye, Needs, Event Horizon

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• Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

  Stefan Zweig

  World, England, Discovering

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• The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Song, Sight

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• When you reach for the horizon, as I've proven, you may not get there, but what a tremendous build of character and spirit that you lay down. What a foundation you lay down in reaching for those horizons.

  Diana Nyad

  Character, Foundation, May

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• Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

  Michelangelo

  Greatness

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• Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also.

  Carl Sagan

  New Horizons, Generations, Way

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• Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fading, Explanation, Poetry Is

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

  John Berger

  Travel, People, Disappear

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.12, Vintage

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• Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands. In silence, we often say, we can hear ourselves think; but what is truer to say is that in silence we can hear ourselves not think....In silence, we might better say, we can hear someone else think.

  Pico Iyer

  Faith, Inspiration, Thinking

  Pico Iyer (2011). “Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions”, p.546, Vintage

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• The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  History, Hubble Space Telescope, Astronomy

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1936). “The Realm of the Nebulæ”

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• Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and colour, give a promise of the glory and beauty which encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams.

  Bram Stoker

  Beautiful, Dream, Country

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Under the Sunset: And Other Stories”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• Perhaps that dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises. A day will come when unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest, despite all barriers, to win back his lost human heritage.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Winning, Men, Dawn

  "Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore:".

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• So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.

  Christopher McCandless

  Men, Reality, Adventurous Life

  Letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

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• There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.

  Glen Campbell

  Art, Light, Media

  Glen Campbell, Tom Carter (1994). “Rhinestone cowboy: an autobiography”

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• Respect your soul: don't keep repeating "I'm going to make it". Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use the long journey to be able to grow, stretch along the horizon, touch the sky. An obsession does not help you at all to reach your objective, and even ends up taking the pleasure out of the climb. But pay attention: also, don't keep saying "it's harder than I thought", because that will make you lose your inner strength.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Journey

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• For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time.

  Henry Beston

  Stars, Night, Our World

  "The Outermost House". Book by Henry Beston, www.wired.com. 1928.

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• But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Clouds, New Horizons, Watches

  "The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell".

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• My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

  Wole Soyinka

  Struggle, Reading, Black History

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Apr 09, 2015

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• For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Blessed, Past, America

  "A place for tougher people". www.theguardian.com. October 23, 1999.

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• For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

  Allen Tate

  Hard Times, Mind, Use

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• the storm thunders at my heart; I find it difficult to believe in the existence of anything except the clouds which limit my horizon.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Believe, Heart, Clouds

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• I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

  James Broughton

  Imagination, Risk, Enthusiasm

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• Liberation is an evershifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises.

  Arianna Huffington

  Promise, Liberation, Ideology

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• Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.

  Arianna Huffington

  Hatred, Promise, Quality

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• On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!

  Jules Verne

  Clouds, Sky, Mountain

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “From the Earth to the Moon”, p.135, Jules Verne

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