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• Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.

  George Tenet

  Two Sides, Iraq, Ties

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• You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

  Armstrong Williams

  Successful, Want, Ifs

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• A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.

  Joy Williams

  Thinking, Agents, Enough

  Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.177, Rowman & Littlefield

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• My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.

  Sara Zarr

  Country, Book, Editors

  "Teen book club: Cat Clarke interviews Sara Zarr" by Cat Clarke, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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• There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.

  Will Self

  Powerful, Creative, Intellectual

  "Why I said yes to Professor Self" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.

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• Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.

  Brad Meltzer

  Eye, President, Eras

  Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel.

  Maturin Murray Ballou

  Book, Brain, Sparks

  Maturin Murray Ballou (1899). “Edge-tools of speech”

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• If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Wife, Felt, Ifs

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• But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.

  Karl Lehmann

  Political, Church, Danger

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• There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.

  William Cecil Dampier

  Knowledge, Science, Research

  William Cecil Dampier Dampier-Whetham M.A., F.R.S. (1931). “A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion”

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• To be a skilled politician, you have to be genuine. To really make it work, you have to love people. You have to love the contact, you have to love the energy, you've gotta love inspiring people and getting their adulation in return. You can't separate what's genuine from what is necessary.

  Robert Reich

  People, Inspiring Love, Energy

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Temptation, Armor, Obscurity

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• The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible agents and innocent germ carriers, by the most varied forms of contact, or simply by breathing the common air.

  Arthur Koestler

  Book, Epidemics, Air

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• New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!

  Robert Orben

  Cities, New Yorkers, Ifs

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• Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

  Henri Bergson

  Reality, Soul, Realism

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• Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.

  Thomas Sowell

  Men, Hands, Availability

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• It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Cutting, Touching, Humanity

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her.

  Paul Cezanne

  Nature, Eye, Order

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• Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Kindness, Writing, Heart

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• With the practice of deep meditation the mind contacts the Bliss Consciousness of the Spirit and becomes more peaceful, happy, creative and powerful. This state of mind enriches all values of material life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Powerful, Practice, Creative

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• I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Children, Opportunity

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• There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Drawing, Way, Draws

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was a bookworm, and very skinny with big, thick glasses. I never went on dates and guys were afraid of me because I was smart. So I got contact lenses, started to dress a little better and tried not to talk about Plato with boys. It worked!

  Julianne Moore

  Plato, Smart, Boys

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• The chances of there being transmissibility by blood to blood contact on a basketball court is so infinitesimally small that it is something that shouldn't influence a decision whether someone would come back or not.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Basketball, Blood, Decision

  "AIDS researcher: Magic's comeback poses no threat". "News Briefs", www.cnn.com. January 27, 1996.

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• In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

  Piet Mondrian

  Past, Effort, Age

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