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“When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.”

Has Beens Two Lines Boys Paper Logic Bases Distance Philosopher Invisible Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Visible Fountain Pencils Straight Lines Nothing New Ontology

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.”

Two Distance Shortcuts Universal Laws

Book:Growing Up Different: Memoirs of a Middle East Scholar

Source: Growing Up Different: Memoirs of a Middle East Scholar

“The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.”

Two Perfect Speech Jokes Distance

Book:Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary

Source: Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary

“If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural unit taken from the earth itself offers another advantage, that of being perfectly analogous to all the real measurements that in ordinary usage are also made upon the earth, such as the distance between two places or the area of some tract, for example. It is far more natural in practice to refer geographical distances to a quadrant of a great circle than to the length of a pendulum.”

“When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.”

Two Acting Fire Mark Cameras Distance Driven Delicious Being There Monitoring

Author:Jeanne Moreau

“My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm around you. Also, you could try to distance yourself emotionally from the whole situation. In my case, I just look at it objectively: We are two guys going inside a cage to work. That's it. Try to de-escalate the pressure. Take a couple of deep breaths. Don't hype things up. And stay positive, even if you're fighting for your life.”

“The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things.”

Years Two Different Character Three Wise Journey Events Ego Distance Versions Leisure Looking Back Traveler Distracted Impatient Tease Different Characters Alter Ego

Author:Jonathan Raban

“It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.”

Men Has Beens Two Hands Lines Feet Middle Equal Distance Fingers Height Sole Crowns Straight Lines Two Hands Middle Finger

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)

“Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.”

“The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.”

People Ifs Two Lines Distance Straight Lines

Author:Theodor Adorno