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Asshole Proximity Disorder -- Stefan Molyneux
Proximity doesn't breed familiarity. -- Maureen Johnson
Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort. -- Nicholas Sparks
Success leaves clues, Proximity is power. Love your family, CHOOSE your peers. -- Tony Robbins
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The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. -- Frank Herbert
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems. -- Ben Nicholson
Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly. -- Tariq Ali
Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech. -- Auberon Waugh
The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre. -- Deborah Cox
When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time. -- Joan Armatrading
Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends. -- Camille Paglia
I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy. -- Joe Lieberman
Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love. -- Maria Edgeworth
Proximity is power. If you can get proximity with people that are the best in the world, things can happen because all of the people they know, the insights they have and the life experience they have. They can save you a decade of time by one insight. -- Tony Robbins
My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of the culture to try to learn at least one other language. So my parents really encourage it in the house. Chinese would be really great to learn - like Mandarin or Cantonese. Portuguese would be incredible. -- Stana Katic
Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan. -- Jonathan Franzen
Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering...wh o see the greatness in you! -- Wayne Dyer
Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other. -- David Spangler
Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe. -- Jason Silva
Atoms are driven by consciousness. In proximity to love, they move in harmonious collaboration with other atoms. When in proximity to fear, they become disharmonious and chaotic. We choose each moment the energy that surrounds us. -- Marianne Williamson
In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children. -- Robert Benton
I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate. -- Michael Sandel
Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering, who appeal to your sense of connection to intention, who see the greatness in you, who feel connected to God, who live a life that gives evidence that Spirit has found celebration through them. -- Wayne Dyer
Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character. -- Jean Baudrillard
There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is important. You fall in love with somebody who's somewhat mysterious, in part because mystery elevates dopamine in the brain, probably pushes you over that threshold to fall in love. -- Helen Fisher
The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated. -- Sun Tzu
It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life -- and herein lies its secret -- takes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it; it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch. -- Milan Kundera
We would never call inexplicable little insights hunches, for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in the proximity of one that had come through if you saw a detective kiss his or her fingers and touch his or her chest where a pendant to Warsha, patron saint of inexplicable inspirations, would, theoretically, hang. -- China Mieville
Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity. -- Gloria Reuben
White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder. -- Michael Eric Dyson
It's so important to take vitamins. People always get ill on tour because of the close proximity in the bus with everyone. -- Ellie Goulding
Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative. -- Julian Baggini
My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them. -- Greta Van Susteren
I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. -- Pope Francis
The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth. -- Jules Verne
I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank. -- Zubin Mehta
I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that's just due to proximity. Just because of distance, we get a lot more cultural spillover from America. -- Chad Kroeger
If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day. -- Eric Braeden
There's an unspoken rule in affluent circles that suggests you can always define an individual's status by measuring his or her proximity to the most influential person in the room. And as the maxim goes, closer is always better. -- Jamie Johnson
My mum's from Broome, so I'm a saltwater person - Aboriginal people are either freshwater, saltwater or desert mob. So I always feel much more comfortable in close proximity to the beach, even if I'm not necessarily in the water. -- Shari Sebbens
Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration. -- Ban Ki-moon
It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities. -- Sonia Gandhi
The reason I'm in San Diego is not because I want distance from South Africa but because I want proximity to the people I love. But I don't envy growing up in America. As ugly as aspects of it were, my biggest blessing was to be born a South African. -- Athol Fugard
One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of the community. My love of Spanish music hasn't wavered since the '50s. I could hear the blues voicing from the Flamanco families and I always dig for inspiration in Latin music. -- Eric Burdon
I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its proximity to the mountains - Christchurch is two hours distant from the worn saddle of Arthur's Pass, the mountain village that was and is my father's spiritual touchstone, his chapel and cathedral in the wild. -- Eleanor Catton
Pulse proximity is not intimacy. -- Stefan Molyneux
Life's extremities can bring God's proximity. -- Elaine A. Cannon
The big change is the proximity to death. -- Leonard Cohen
Our proximity keeps us honest. Our intentions keep us strangers. -- Corey Taylor
Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers. -- Irvine Welsh
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity. -- Bill Parcells
We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.] -- Ovid
Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love. -- Adam Ross
Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic. -- David Levithan
I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity. -- Dan Simmons
We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. -- Germaine Greer
In college, it's very easy to maintain your female friendships because you're in such close proximity all the time. -- Greta Gerwig
A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling -- John Warren Kindt
It is important for everyone to keep in close contact and preferably be in physical proximity with their loved ones. -- Deepak Chopra
Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair. -- Louie Giglio
There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success. -- Winston Churchill
Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business. -- Vicki Lawrence
Cuba was in some ways a de facto state of the United States before 1959, given its proximity and given its neocolonial status. -- Gerald Horne
There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs. -- John Warner
One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings. -- Victor Grignard
The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant towards your over-proximity." -- Slavoj Zizek
It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her. -- Ernest Hemingway
The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant towards your over-proximity. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity. -- Henry Rollins
To me, it's important to preserve proximity to the people. I wouldn't do anything pretentious, and nothing that hurts the people who voted for me. Triumphalism isn't my thing. -- Francois Hollande
If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit. -- Stefan Molyneux
The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement. -- Iris Murdoch
Some teachers are very accessible. They advertise a great deal, they go out into the public. If they're advanced teachers, doubtlessly they are very inaccessible in terms of physical proximity. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
From the earliest days, the Rothschilds appreciated the importance of proximity to politicians, the men who determined not only the extent of budget deficits but also the domestic and foreign policies... -- Niall Ferguson
He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity. -- J. K. Rowling
I've never been bothered by proximity to special effects and I've never felt disadvantaged by them. They're all part of a movie, and when the movie's under control I don't feel upstaged by them. -- Harrison Ford
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear." -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad conscience about it. [Albert] Camus has a greater proximity to those in poverty. -- Catherine Camus

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