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• Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with him who alone can deliver us from solitude.

  Georges Lefebvre

  Prayer, Solitude, Daily Life

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• The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

  Steve Schmidt

  Solitude, Independence, Happy Independence Day

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• If diphtheria is a disease caused by a microorganism, it is essential that three postulates be fulfilled. The fulfilment of these postulates is necessary in order to demonstrate strictly the parasitic nature of a disease:
  1) The organism must be shown to be constantly present in characteristic form and arrangement in the diseased tissue.
  2) The organism which, from its behaviour appears to be responsible for the disease, must be isolated and grown in pure culture.
  3) The pure culture must be shown to induce the disease experimentally.
  An early statement of Koch's postulates.

  Friedrich Loeffler

  Science, Order, Behaviour

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• Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Wall, Integrity

  ERICH FROMM (1956). “THE ART OF LOVING”

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• Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Issues, Water, Needs

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• Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home.

  Gloria Steinem

  Husband, Home, Men

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• The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, in the slowing of the daily centrifugal forces that keep us off balance.

  David Douglas

  Moving, Journey, Hiking

  David Douglas (1987). “Wilderness sojourn: notes in the desert silence”, Harper San Francisco

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• On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either the desire for a future or the concept of one. I felt more aware of who I was, but that in itself-dominated as it was by sensations of fragmentation and isolation-filled me with no great hope, and in many ways only fuelled an appetite for destruction.

  Anthony Loyd

  Depression, Desire, Despair

  Anthony Loyd (2014). “My War Gone By, I Miss It So”, p.136, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.

  Erich Fromm

  Home, Average, Sick

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• My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Photography

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• Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Bigs, Songwriting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm in an unusual stage right now, because I haven't dated in so long. The sense of isolation turns it all into a bigger deal. Just taking the risk of opening that door is really hard for me right now.

  Andie MacDowell

  Doors, Long, Risk

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• You leave white people alone in constant isolation for 2,000 years, and you know what their musical contribution will be? Riverdance!

  Greg Proops

  Years, White, People

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• Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself into self-isolation and that’s where he became himself. And to me that was, wow. Don’t let anything poison your individuality. Be away, break away and look in not outward.

  Rodney Mullen

  Reading, Fire, Self

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• I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny

  Kathleen Turner

  Beach, People, House

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• One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world of work. Whereas in the past children not only saw what their parents did for a living but even shared substantially in the task, many children nowadays have only a vague notion of the nature of the parent's job, and have had little or no opportunity to observe the parent, or for that matter any other adult, when he is fully engaged in his work.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Jobs, Children, Past

  Urie Bronfenbrenner (1973). “Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R.”, Pocket

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• We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Civilization, Division Of Labor, Culture

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.120, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I urge North Koreas leaders to reflect on Burmas experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.

  Thomas E. Donilon

  Doors, Korea, People

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• The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

  Bruce D. Perry

  Love, Truth, Capacity

  Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz (2017). “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing”, p.220, Hachette UK

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• [Kierkegaard] did not care for large public events because every crowd is in itself an untruth. The only way out is isolation, aloofness. Only the individual is a reality and only the individual is true. Maybe the process of isolation in an individual is one of the most important matters that exists. Is not the whole point of this world for people to separate and become individuals?

  Mati Unt

  Reality, People, Solitude

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• Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself.

  Sigmund Freud

  People, Solitude, Suffering

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being degenerate into deathly specters of themselves. Solitude split off from community is no longer a rich and fulfilling experience of inwardness; now it becomes loneliness, a terrible isolation. Community split off from solitude is no longer a nurturing network of relationships; now it becomes a crowd, an alienating buzz of too many people and too much noise.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Loneliness, Opposites, People

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.68, John Wiley & Sons

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• There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to know the contents of our own minds without resort to observation or evidence. It is a mistake, I shall urge, to suppose that these questions can be collapsed into two, or taken into isolation.

  Donald Davidson

  Mistake, Taken, Two

  Donald Davidson (2001). “Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective: Philosophical Essays”, p.208, Clarendon Press

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• Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Inspiration, Writing, Thinking

  "Alone with the Greta Garbo of verse". Interview with James Hopkin, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2000.

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• Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear. Mutations, in summary, tend to induce sickness, death, or deficiencies. No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambiguous evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation.

  Lynn Margulis

  Loss, Wings, Population

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