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• Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Catholic, Special

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• The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Machines, Processors

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• Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

  Olympia Dukakis

  Passion, Competition, Clear

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.

  William Henry Ashley

  Ocean, Water, Columbia

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• There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Europe, Dollars, Hegemony

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• I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Book, Thinking, Two

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• We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

  Erich Fromm

  History, Growth, World

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.134, Routledge

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• He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Men, Feelings

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777”

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• What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.

  Trey Parker

  Issues, Social, Materials

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• If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Class, Sick, Shapes

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• I learned again that the mind-body-spirit connection has to be in balance.

  Wynonna Judd

  Mind, Balance, Body

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• Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Growing Up, Animal, Matter

  Elizabeth Janeway (1982). “Cross sections from a decade of change”, William Morrow & Co

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• The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Animal, Views, Imagination

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• I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.

  Matthew Barney

  Pregnancy, Car, Needs

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• The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ambition, Character, Taught Us

  Sigmund Freud (2012). “The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud”, p.544, Modern Library

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• Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

  William Ralph Inge

  Phases, Consciousness, Habit

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

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• In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

  Wangari Maathai

  Future, Rights, Vision

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• Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, Effort, Cases

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• In this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

  Bob Taft

  Jobs, Cost, Safe

  "The Jobs Agenda". Bob Taft's State of the State Address, 2004.

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• More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Egypt, Literature, Want

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• When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

  Ralph Thomas Walker

  Character, Pride, Self

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• In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Games, Different, Engagement

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• I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

  Bill Condon

  Past, Whales, Wanted

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• I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.

  Patrick Warburton

  Satanist, Audience, Knows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Reading, Ideas, Iraq

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.

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