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• I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

  James Earl Jones

  Kids, Thinking, Agriculture

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

  Seamus Heaney

  Self, Intimate, Crisis

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• An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Literature, World

  "Aphorisms from the Athenaeum" by Friedrich Schlegel, #206, 1798.

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• I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Country, United States, Affair

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• By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

  Hannah Arendt

  Beautiful, Reality

  Hannah Arendt (1957). “Rahel Varnhagen: the life of a Jewess”

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• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  Hanoi Hannah

  Fighting, Long, People

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• We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional.

  Eva Herzigova

  Strong, Smart

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• Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

  Robert Smithson

  Language, Procedures, Should

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

  Diane Abbott

  Gun, Issues, Causes

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• In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.

  Paul von Hindenburg

  Army, Afterlife, Battle

  Paul von Hindenburg (1921). “Out of My Life”

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• I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.

  Ernst Mayr

  Population, Location, Found

  Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, Harvard University Press

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• Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.

  Donald Johanson

  Hands, Skulls, Teeth

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

  Moshe Katsav

  Country, Rights, Iran

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• I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Memories, Usa, United States

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• It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Depressing, Writing, Needs

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

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• I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.

  Nancy Reagan

  Mean, President, Firsts

  "Nancy Reagan is dead at 94" by Maxwell Tani, www.businessinsider.com. March 6, 2016.

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• I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

  James Taylor

  Nature, Thinking, People

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

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• I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

  Manuel Puig

  Believe, Successful, People

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• You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!

  Leon Trotsky

  History, Roles, Politics

  History of the Russian Revolution ch. 47 (1930) (translation by Max Eastman) See Birrell 1

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• Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom.

  Confucius

  Middle

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• We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.

  Douglas Coupland

  Time, Age, Who We Are

  "Girlfriend in a Coma". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1998.

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• The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation), it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Religious, Evil

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Sorry, Mad

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.

  Robin Williams

  Character, Ideas, One Line

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• In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Guilt, Sin

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