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Your Quotes for 5 August 2005 - Distance

As a result of US financier Cyrus Field's investment in a submarine cable from New York to Newfoundland and then to England, Queen Victoria sent President James Buchanan a 98-word greeting by telegraph. It took 17 hours to send it, still dramatically faster than any ship could have carried it. That first cable burned out after only a month, but it had bridged Distance in a way that changed the world.

All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
     - Brian Tracy

To the wrongs that need resistance,
To the right that needs assistance,
To the future in the distance,
  Give yourselves.
     - Carrie Chapman Catt, 1859 - 1947

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
     - Jean de La Bruyère, 1645 - 1696

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
     - Marshall McLuhan, 1911 - 1980

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
     - Martin Luther King

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
     - Robert Southey, 1774 - 1843

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