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In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

Andre Agassi

Men, Islands, Games

Andre Agassi (2015). “The Whirl”, p.11, Vintage

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I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from the window and am aware, with the edge of my consciousness, that a moment ago I was not here, there was simply the world outside the window, and something beautiful and incomprehensible, something which there is absolutely no need to ‘comprehend,’ existed for a few seconds instead of the usual swarm of thoughts, of which one, like a locomotive, pulls all the others after it, absorbs them all and calls itself ‘I’.

Victor Pelevin

Beautiful, World, Usual

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Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

Tom Clancy

Hockey, Ice, Unions

Tom Clancy (1989). “The Cardinal of the Kremlin”, p.175, Penguin

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This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it...Plus, being married and monogamous, it's the closest thing I can do to having sex without getting in trouble for it...The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.

Jon Bon Jovi

Sex, Years, Rocks

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Try walking the halls of Congress. It's Abercrombie & Fitch meets the Hair Club for Men. Lots of really photogenic young people kissing up to lots of insufferable blowhards. Separated by one or two generations, most of these players have only one real thing in common: They have never been weaned from the public teat. The closest they've ever come to meeting a payroll is when they come together to spend everyone else's payroll taxes.

Michelle Malkin

Real, Kissing, Player

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It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Empathy, May, Difficult

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When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

Raoul Dufy

Confused, Heart, Littles

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All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

Lou Holtz

Trying, Holes, Hole In One

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In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people.

Arthur W. Pink

Heart, People, Holiness

Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures”, p.124, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.

Henry Peach Robinson

Departure, Scrutiny

Henry Peach Robinson (1869). “Pictorial Effect in Photography: Being Hints on Composition and Chiaro-oscuro for Photographers. To which is Added a Chapter on Combination Printing”, p.198

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I thought I had the world by the tail. It took me a few years to realize the closest I was to having the world by the tail was being a dingle berry on one of its ass hairs.

Joe R. Lansdale

Hair, Years, Berries

Joe R. Lansdale “Deranged by Choice”, KHP Publishers

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Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Cheating, Fall, Men

William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.704, Delphi Classics

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In my incoherence I was grateful that for a few moments I had known what it was to suffer-or so I thought. But nothing is less like a thing that that which is closest to it. A man who had been near to death thinks how he knows death. When the day finally comes for him to meet it, he does not recognise it. 'This is not it,' he says, as he dies.

Raymond Radiguet

Grateful, Thinking, Men

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Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

Ernst Haeckel

Law, Connections, Branches

ernst haeckel “the riddle of the universe”

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A lot of people that I've had around me have been my closest friends since junior high, back when we were exchanging each other's clothes, staying at each other's houses. That was before I had anything.

Paul Pierce

Clothes, People, House

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The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. . . . At the time I happened to be driving across country on Interstate 80. In each city where I stopped for gas or food — Laramie, Ogallala, Moline, South Bend — the melodies wafted in from some far-off transistor radio or portable hi-fi. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard. For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young.

Langdon Winner

Country, Civilization, Cities

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Songs, and songwriting keeps me inspired, moving forward. I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of paper, backs of cigarette packs, sometimes on my shirt cuff. Rock n’ roll is closest thing I’ve got to a spiritual power. It’s been the higher voice in my life and it’s never let me down.

John Waite

Spiritual, Song, Moving

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Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

John Shelton Reed

Wine, Europe, Southern

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That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

Ben Harper

Spiritual, Guitar, Being Free

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Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.

Alister E. McGrath

Biblical, Views, Rivers

Alister E. McGrath (2007). “Christianity's Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution : a History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-first”, SPCK Publishing

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And concentrating on the spot where the two spindles should be is the closest I get to looking Hannah's eyes as she tells my story.

Jay Asher

Eye, Two, Stories

Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.214, Penguin

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He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only a saddle, his rosary, and his books...The books were the closest thing he had to furniture, and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

Laura Hillenbrand

Book, Home, Sleep

"Seabiscuit: An American Legend". Book by Laura Hillenbrand, 2001.

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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production - oriented society and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

Rebecca Solnit

Thinking, Done, Doing Nothing

"Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move". Interview with Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 2, 2000.

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Bodybuilding is the closest we have to the fountain of youth.

Lee Labrada

Bodybuilding, Youth, Fountain

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In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.

Dani Shapiro

Running, Home, Journey

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