Connected Quotes

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  The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

  Chief Seattle

  Life, Travel, Men

  Chief Seattle, “This we know”

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• We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

  Novalis

  Spiritual, Literature, Invisible

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• Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy, and suffer a bewildering sense of separation. We crave love, and yet we are lonely. Our delusion of being separate from one another, of being apart from all that is around us, gives rise to all of this pain.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Lonely, Emo, Pain

  "Lovingkindness". Book by Sharon Salzberg, July 14, 2014.

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• But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Forests, Quiet

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• Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.

  John Berger

  Children, World, Young

  John Berger (2011). “A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor”, p.122, Vintage

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• You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.

  Ice T

  Records, Labels, Dissing

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• I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

  Andrew Denton

  Hate, People, Individual

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

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• I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

  Salmon P. Chase

  White, Office, Black

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• Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

  Thomas Cech

  Biology, Breakthrough, Phenomenon

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". Interview with Holger Breithaupt, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

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• I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Art, Architecture, Painting

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.

  Patrick McHenry

  Hands, Terror Attacks, Plot

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• Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.

  James Nasmyth

  War, Boys, Interesting

  James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.52, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.

  Ted Nelson

  Wall, Spring, Ideas

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• I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.

  Amy Smart

  Challenges, Important, Directors

  "IGN For Men Interview: Amy Smart". Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. August 26, 2001.

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• I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.

  James MacArthur

  Thinking, Long, Lasts

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• From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.

  Daniel J. Bernstein

  Perspective, Ifs, Security

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• When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, Artist, Obvious Things

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.35, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Art, Self, Sufficient

  Kurt Schwitters, Werner Schmalenbach, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (1965). “Kurt Schwitters: a retrospective exhibition”

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• ...the world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn't work...We're all so connected. We can't spend every second of our lives worrying about another family miles away but we somehow have to factor it in where we can.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Distance, Helping Others, Worry

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• Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Clouds, Crucible

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• The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become.

  Frank Pittman

  Love, Positive, Marriage

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• Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

  George Washington

  Inspiring, Inspiration, 4th Of July

  George Washington (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.162

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• Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

  Remy de Gourmont

  Different, Consciousness, Life Is

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• We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Earth, Make Me Smile, Ends

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

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• The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

  Benjamin Banneker

  African American, Intellectual, Mind

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