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Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her. Jack Adams | top
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Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity. Alcaeus | top
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People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. John Betjeman | top
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River. Daniel Boone | top
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At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family. Jack Bowman | top
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. Barbara Bush | top
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We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day. Edward Carpenter | top
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. Adam Clayton | top
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It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways. Glenn Close | top
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I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings. Caroline B. Cooney | top
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I was in the back part of the bunker, so I had to carry the whole bunker. It was probably 20 yards. Trent Dilfer | top
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Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70 yards from the pin. Poor execution, chunked it, hit a good chip up to about eight feet, missed it. Trent Dilfer | top
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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? Dwight D. Eisenhower | top
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A precisely made iron chain 22 yards in length consisting of 100 links. Edmund Gunter | top
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That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done. Robert Hamer | top
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking. C. L. R. James | top
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The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle. James Prescott Joule | top
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I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians. Gary Larson | top
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As long as I can stay north or south, I'm gaining yards. Jamal Lewis | top
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Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another. Lennart Meri | top
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There certainly is a good 'Tex Mex' restaurant very close to our office. My office is around 100 yards from it. I call it Tex Mex because every couple of years it's changed hands and changed name, I'm not exactly sure why! Andrew Oliver | top
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I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball. Dennis Quaid | top
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Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life. Manfred von Richthofen | top
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On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes. James Stockdale | top
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We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost. Jeremiah Wright | top