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• The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ... . For while there may be some isolated true believers left in places like Managua, Pyongyang, or Cambridge, MA.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Mean, Unions, May

  Francis Fukuyama, United States Institute of Peace (1990). “A Look at "The end of history?"”, United States Inst of Peace Pr

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• Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Pain, Home, Unique

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• If the world is crazy, maybe it needs a few sane people in the middle of it. Why do monks lock themselves up in monasteries? What's the good of solving your personal suffering if the solution keeps you isolated from everyone else's suffering?

  Tim Ward

  Crazy, People, Suffering

  Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.47, Changemakers Books

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• The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Ocean, Ice Cream, Sea

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• Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

  William Warburton

  Regulation, Ancient, Manners

  William Warburton, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author”, p.62

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• I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Writing, Careers, Place And Time

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• Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.

  Frederic Raphael

  Opposites, Velvet, Television

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• Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Book, Simple

  "Other Inquisitions". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.

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• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  Damian Lewis

  Acting, Particular

  "Damian Lewis: Top of the cops". Interview with Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.

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• A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Memories, Book, Axes

  "Other Inquisitions". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.

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• Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

  Paul Bowles

  Fiction, Isolation, Protect

  Paul Bowles, Gena Dagel Caponi (1993). “Conversations with Paul Bowles”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Ignored

  Claire LaZebnik (2011). “Epic Fail”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• I'm not trying to imply I can keep up this silent, isolated facade all the time. Sometimes the wall I've erected around me comes crumbling down. It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes, before I even realize what's going on, there I am--naked and defenseless and totally confused. At times like that I always feel an omen calling out to me, like a dark, omnipresent pool of water. ~page 10

  Haruki Murakami

  Wall, Confused, Dark

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• A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Axes, Intonation

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.214, New Directions Publishing

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• Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government at the time of the founding, and for a century thereafter—have been replaced with a professional ruling class led by governing masterminds. For the most part, they are isolated from the communities from which they hail and are consumed with the daily jockeying for position and power within their ranks. Moreover, they both pander to and lord over their constituents.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Class, Design

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• I don't feel that way anymore," Nico muttered. "I mean... I gave up on Percy. I was young and impressionable, and I- I don't..." His voice cracked, and Jason could tell the guy was about to get teary-eyed. Whether Nico had really given up on Percy or not, Jason couldn't imagine what it had been like for Nico all those years, keeping a secret that would've been unthinkable to share in the 1940s, denying who he was, feeling completely alone- even more isolated than other demigods. "Nico," he said gently, "I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you did? That was maybe the bravest.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Years, Voice

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• Whether you're acting or you're writing, your skin is just basically ripped off and you're putting yourself out there. At least the acting part comes with a bit more social interaction. And you're a bit less isolated because you are working with the director and the crew, and there's a general camaraderie. Writing, you're totally isolated. You're just trying to get the words on paper.

  Tama Janowitz

  Writing, Acting, Skins

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field' or a system in and of itself. Whatever else he may be, man is a social and an historical actor who must be understood, if at all, in close and intricate interplay with social and historical structures

  C. Wright Mills

  Men, Historical, Actors

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.158, Oxford University Press

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• Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes only instrumental, or 'use', value to nature. Deep ecology does not separate humans - or anything else - from the natural environment. It does see the world not as a collection of isolated objects but as a network of phenomena that are fundamentally interconnected and interdependent. Deep ecology recognizes the intrinsic value of all human beings and views humans as just one particular strand in the web of life.

  Fritjof Capra

  Views, Web Of Life, Doe

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• Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However contemptible the world may be, they still need it to be able to talk together.

  Milan Kundera

  Beautiful, Two, People

  "Identity". Book by Milan Kundera, 1998.

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• We do not have an outbreak of Ebola in the United States. Nowhere. We do have two health care workers who contracted the disease from a dying man. They are isolated. There is no information to suggest that the virus has spread to anyone in the general population in America. Not one person in the general population in the United States.

  Shepard Smith

  Men, Ebola, Two

  "Smith: Ebola panic 'not worth the ratings'" by Hadas Gold, www.politico.com. October 15, 2014.

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• This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it. Clearly, the highest loyalty we should have is not to our own country or our own religion or our hometown or even to ourselves. It should be to, number two, the family of man, and number one, the planet at large. This is our home, and this is all we've got.

  Scott Carpenter

  Loyalty, Country, Lonely

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• Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached to the world; it also denies that the world exists as reality apart from people. Authentic reflection considers neither abstract man nor the world without people, but people in their relations with the world. In these relations consciousness and world are simultaneous: consciousness neither precedes the world nor follows it.

  Paulo Freire

  Independent, Reflection, Reality

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.81, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.

  Rick Renzi

  Native American, Unique, Numbers

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• Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated connections within the physical sciences, but formal studies isolated each branch of science.” I feel that I have advantages greater than Da Vinci’s such as access to more information, materials, and methods.

  Jacque Fresco

  Essentials, Connections, Academia

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