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• The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

  Steven Pinker

  Book, Political, Enlightenment

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 8, 2002.

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• These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Distance, Communication, Long

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• A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.

  Brandon Lee

  Art, Strong, Dad

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• Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

  Christopher Lasch

  Drug, Television, Links

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• My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

  Georges Cuvier

  Animal, Land, Earth

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• But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.

  Jon Postel

  Home, Computer

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• This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears

  John Culberson

  Country, Mexican, Als

  "Exclusive! Rep. John Culberson". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. November 18, 2005.

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• Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

  Martha Beck

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

  Gro Harlem Brundtland (1993). “Population, Environment and Development”

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• I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

  Allan Sloan

  Powerful, Careers, People

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• Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Science, Climbing

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• All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

  Heather Donahue

  Technology, Schemes, Knows

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• But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people

  Isabelle Huppert

  People, Trying, Monsters

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

  Virginia Woolf

  Peace, War, Clothes

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.797, Wordsworth Editions

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• Skype is for any individual who has a broadband Internet connection.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Skype, Internet, Individual

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• The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.

  Ted Strickland

  Education, Healthy, Economy

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• There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

  Lionel Trilling

  Class, Ideas, Imagination

  Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.99, New York Review of Books

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• My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Sea, Ministers, Officials

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• Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer connection than an artists and their own song.

  Justin Guarini

  Song, Artist, People

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• Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Law, Branches, Action

  ernst haeckel “the riddle of the universe”

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• Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.

  Andre Weil

  Mean, Intuition, Doe

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• There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

  Ken Follett

  Real, Fiction, Real Connection

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• I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

  Roy Ayers

  Play, Smooth Jazz, Soul

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• The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Love, Relationship, Real

  Barbara De Angelis (1997). “Real Moments for Lovers: The Enlightened Guide for Discovering Total Passion and True Intimacy”, Dell

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

  Philip Emeagwali

  Machines, Processors

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