Connections Quotes - Page 28

• One doesn't diminish a philosopher's achievement, and doesn't undermine its soundness, by showing how the particular set of questions on which he focused, the orientation he brought to bear on his focus, has some causal connection to the circumstances of his life.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Focus, Achievement, Bears

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• Okay, NATO expanded to East Berlin and East Germany. Under [Bill] Clinton NATO expanded further, to the former Russian satellites. In 2008 NATO formally made an offer to Ukraine to join NATO. That's unbelievable. I mean, Ukraine is the geopolitical heartland of Russian concern, quite aside from historical connections, population and so on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, East Germany, East Berlin

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I am deeply worried about Donald Trump on matters of national security. He doesn't know anything himself about it, and he has appointed a national security adviser, Mike Flynn, who is a pro-Russia conspiracy theorist, and he's just put Steve Bannon, a guy with connections to white supremacy and antisemitism, onto the National Security Council.

  Tim Kaine

  Russia, White, Guy

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Every American at some point has got to make the connection between their own hopes and dreams and who is elected to office. It's essential. It's very easy to pull the covers up over your head and say, "I can't handle it. Too much." But we just have to handle it and we have to accept that it's our job. Each of us. Nobody is going to take care of it.

  Barbara Boxer

  Dream, Jobs, Office

  Source: progressive.org

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• Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of ancient Greece, and the only thing he liked to do was horse around with kids when he was back from slaughtering. One thing that feminism revealed is that being a distant patriarchal figure was not something men wanted to be. They want to be more involved in the lives of their children, and you can see that once they're allowed to have that connection, they crave it.

  Stephen Marche

  Horse, Kings, Children

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The Declaration of Independence was only partially applied for women and for certain immigrants such as the Chinese. And it wasn't applied to get rid of corporate welfare and cronyism. People who had special connections got special deals from the beginning. So all of those violations of what the Declaration of Independence expressed, have led to the problems we have today. So, the sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons for seven generations, or much longer. Forever.

  Charles Koch

  Father, Son, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I have had the advantage of the opportunity to meet with Mr. Trump on several occasions. And my experience is that he's very intelligent. He's thirsty for information. He wants to hear what you have to say. He listens to his advisers. He digests the information very quickly, and he's got a good memory, because I remember one time I was talking to him about something, and then he pulled some information out of his memory banks that was a great connection that I hadn't even thought to mention to him.

  Kris Kobach

  Memories, Opportunity, Intelligent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Running, Thinking, Law

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• The spirit world speaks to us through the heart. The more we open our hearts and raise our own vibrations, the easier the connection.

  Suzanne Giesemann

  Heart, Vibrations, World

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The last thing I want is that sense of artifice - rather I want the reader drawn into the story and lost in it and vested in it. So the emotional connection is everything, albeit a connection on my terms.

  Steve Erickson

  Emotional, Stories, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The parent reads the book. The kid reads the book and then they can talk about the characters instead of talking about themselves. You know there's a connection even if you don't talk about it when you read the same books.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Character, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• As a young lawyer, I learned to try to find common ground with people, to look for a human connection. When I got to the Senate, despite the fact that there were a lot of people who didn't want me to get there - and were sure they'd never even talk to me, let alone work with me - I really tried to do the job I was sent there to do by the people of New York, which was to get things done for my constituents. I worked with Republicans, and we found a lot of common ground. It isn't easy, but it's part of what we have to do in politics today.

  Hillary Clinton

  New York, Jobs, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I was raised in a completely black world. In those days, if a white woman married a black man, she lived as a black woman, and that was just the end of it. So, I don't have a feeling of being bi-racial. I don't have a connection to it. People often come up to me thinking I do have a connection to it, and I kind of let them down because I really don't.

  Shelby Steele

  Men, Thinking, White

  Black Star News Interview, www.blackstarnews.com. February 29, 2008.

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• I think a healthy connection with the natural world actually makes us more human.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Thinking, Healthy, World

  Source: www.kidzworld.com

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• Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

  David Eagleman

  Stars, Mean, Brain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.6, Canongate Books

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• The connection of the car to the driver is the seat. You are strapped in tightly in it. On the motorcycle, you can move around. The G-forces feel different. It's probably harder to change from the car to the motorcycle.

  John Surtees

  Moving, Car, Motorcycle

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• The artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction, the masterful work of the DP [Director of Photography] Kevin McKnight and his crew, and the layers and depths each actor goes to to ensure we the audience feel a human connection to these characters led me to sign my name on the dotted line.

  Aisha Hinds

  Photography, Character, Writing

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• If we look at the last decades, we see that the US rightist-fundamentalist alliance demonized partnership-oriented families and painted women's rights as a threat to "tradition" - which of course it is to traditions of domination. These people had an integrated political agenda that recognizes that a "traditional" authoritarian, male dominated, punitive family is foundational to an authoritarian, male dominated, punitive politics. We can see this connection in sharp relief in brutal top-down regimes, be they secular like Nazi Germany or religious like ISIS in the Middle East.

  Riane Eisler

  Religious, Top Down, Rights

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Contemporary nations such as Sweden, Norway, and Finland, where women are half of the national legislatures, have more caring policies, less violence, and more environmentally sustainable policies. These are connections we must pay attention to if we are to build a better future for us all.

  Riane Eisler

  Caring, Attention, Half

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The local grocery store was a gathering, a community place. You knew the owner, if you didn't have any money they'd let you go for a couple days. You talked. It was a friendly place. Supermarkets are totally impersonal. I mean, you may say hello to the checkout girl or something, but the personal connections are all gone.

  Noam Chomsky

  Girl, Couple, Mean

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it's like a romantic song or a happy song.

  Boy George

  Song, Emotional, People

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I am interested in the political economy of institutional power relationships in transition. The question is one of "reconstructive" communities as a cultural, as well as a political, fact: how geographic communities are structured to move in the direction of the next vision, along with the question of how a larger system - given the power and cultural relationships - can move toward managing the connections between the developing communities. There are many, many hard questions here - including, obviously, ones related to ecological sustainability and climate change.

  Gar Alperovitz

  Moving, Community, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Thinking, Trying, Stories

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Swami cannot give peace of mind; you must work for it yourselves. First, stop the questioning and ask, 'who am I?'. This is my body, my mind, my intelligence. But who is this 'My'? Who is it that claims the ownership of that which is declared to be 'mine'? 'My' indicates ownership. That 'My' is the life. As long as the life is in the body, there is this connection between the 'my' and the intellect - 'my' body, 'my' house, 'my' land. But the moment you remove the life from the body, there is no 'my' or sense of possession. Life is God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Land, Long, Giving

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• I'm glad I took that time to work really hard on the music. I feel the effects of that now in a positive way with my connection with the audience.

  Kenny Chesney

  Way, Feels, Glad

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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