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• Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Heart, Men, Clouds

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Two, Chapter II, 1840.

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• I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.

  Karl Marx

  Attitude, Two, Principles

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

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• This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.

  George H. W. Bush

  Vices, Facts, Virtue

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• I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also I see the pitfalls that we're susceptible to, addiction, isolation, loneliness, mental illness, not to mention the embarrassing fashion choices.

  Vestal McIntyre

  Fashion, Loneliness, Gay

  Source: roosterweathervane.tumblr.com

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• You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Groups, Needs, World

  "Some of the best commencement speeches ever". www.theglobeandmail.com. June 16, 2014.

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• Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare, sometimes in form of explicit and conscious fanaticism, sometimes in paralyzing timidity, sometimes in an unconscious or subconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams. The man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Passion, Men

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• The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get help.

  Jared Diamond

  Easter, Ocean, Islands

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• We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy towards apathy, isolation, passivity, helplessness and separation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Self, People, Apathy

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• I voted 'yes' and I urge all Iraqis, no matter their different ethnicities and religions ... to vote 'yes' to the constitution

  Jalal Talabani

  Ethnicity, Different, Matter

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• Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I've heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in your isolation. You who have suffered, find where love hides. Give, share, lose—lest we die, unbloomed.

  Austin Bunn

  Ignorance, Long, Giving

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• When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.

  Lucy Grealy

  Beautiful, Feelings, Ugly

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Caffeine helps a lot. That and a certain amount of isolation.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Helping, Certain, Caffeine

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• Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

  Roger Williams

  Men, Ought, Conscience

  Roger Williams, John Cotton, John Murton (1848). “The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed: And Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered”, p.13

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• There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

  Elijah Wood

  Real, Unique, Our World

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• At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

  Boris Pasternak

  Auras, Moments, Abandoned

  Doctor Zhivago Ch. 9, Sect. 3

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• Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

  Steve Schmidt

  Pride, People, Solitude

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• So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of armaments. Many, many young people are in despair because of the danger.

  Jean Vanier

  War, Our World, People

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.177, Paulist Press

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• Britain is economically very closely integrated with its European partner countries. Were these ties to be cut, it would be a huge step backwards for the country and would weaken it considerably. In the era of globalisation, "splendid isolation" is not a smart option.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Country, Smart, Cutting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.

  Abdallah II

  Wall, Diversity, Growth

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• The sun is new each day.

  Heraclitus

  Morning, New Day, Each Day

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• Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Funny, Good Morning, Good Day

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.143, Grove Press

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• The arts don't exist in isolation.

  David Byrne

  Art

  David Byrne (2012). “How Music Works”, p.257, Canongate Books

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• The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Country, Justice, Diversity

  Gamal Abdel Nasser (1955). “Egypt's liberation: the philosophy of the revolution”

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• Photography has taken me from isolation.

  Anton Corbijn

  Photography, Taken

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