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• Long-haul trucking. Just roaming the country, alone, with audiobooks and podcasts, sleeping in the back of the cab, showering at gas stations at 4 a.m., minimal human contact. That's living the dream.

  Mat Johnson

  Dream, Country, Sleep

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

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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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• If you're asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don't. And certain things, like my freckles, they're just there. I don't do anything consciously. I suppose I could get contact lenses. I suppose I could comb my hair more often.

  Bill Gates

  Hair, Lenses, Asking

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• When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Electric Shock, Purpose

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.1018, Delphi Classics

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• I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, Thinking, Looks

  H. R. Graetz, Vincent van Gogh (1963). “The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh”, London, Hudson

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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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• A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.

  Barbra Streisand

  Interesting, Humanity, Trust Yourself

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• There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of.

  John Cleese

  Animal, Stills, Where We Came

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• We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.

  Barnett Newman

  Men, Desire, Emotion

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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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• 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 war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Triumph

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• The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Knowledge, Rude

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “Hyperion”, p.79

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• There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections of this Union have illustrated their courage on too many battlefields to be questioned. They have shown their fighting qualities shoulder to shoulder whenever their country has called upon them; but that they may never come in contact with each other in fratricidal war, should be the ardent wish of every true man and honest patriot.

  Robert Toombs

  Country, War, Fighting

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• I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

  John Muir, Richard Kauffman (1964). “Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada”

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• The white man has succeeded in subduing the world by forcing everybody to think his way....The white man's propaganda has made him the master of the world, and all those who have come in contact with it and accepted it have become his slaves.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Thinking, White Man

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• This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Beautiful, Girl, Summer

  Karen Thompson Walker (2014). “The Age of Miracles”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• I think I might have a bad psychic advisor. When I asked her to contact the dead, she gave me Keith Richards' phone number.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Phones, Psychics

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• I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Littles

  Interview with Bianca Jagger, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2011.

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• Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm of passion, and soften the heart when shaken by sorrow to its inmost depths.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Nature, Passion, Heart

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• When you meditate with an enlightened teacher, you will feel something from them. They just dissolve completely, absorption in nirvana, where they don't even have physical contact with this world anymore.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, World, Enlightened

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• Kids are shy and they often don't want to make eye contact or say "thank you."

  Viggo Mortensen

  Kids, Eye, Shy

  Source: collider.com

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• Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Transcendental, Mediums

  Interview with Nicholas Serota, www.timeout.com. October 10, 2011.

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