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• I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

  John Paul Jones

  Life, Fear, Military

  Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont, 16 Nov. 1778

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• Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

  Michael Patrick Jann

  School, Knowing, Balls

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• Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

  Jane Roberts

  Emotional, Our Words, Use

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• Any method by which you get to see things that you haven't seen before hones your practiced ability to make connections.

  Stephen Metcalf

  Method, Ability, Havens

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• Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

  Christopher Alexander

  Inspirational, Relationship, Art

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• There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.

  Ann Rule

  Inspirational, Change, Fate

  Ann Rule (2013). “A Rose For Her Grave: And Other True Cases”, p.84, Planet Ann Rule, LLC

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• Every problem emerges from the false belief we are separate from one another, and every answer emerges from the realization we are not.

  Marianne Williamson

  People, Realization, Answers

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jun 09, 2014

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• The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects.

  John Dee

  Animal, Messages, Plant

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• This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we feel the trauma of our world. So don’t be afraid of the anguish you feel, or the anger or fear, because these responses arise from the depth of your caring and the truth of your interconnectedness with all beings.

  Joanna Macy

  Nature, Fear, Anger

  Joanna Macy, Norbert Gahbler (2006). “Pass it On: Five Stories That Can Change the World”, p.105, Parallax Press

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• The ecologist has a much more comprehensive and holistic view of the world. We're looking at the natural environment as well as the human built environment and the connectivity between the two - how do the natural environment and the human-built environment interact and interface with each other.

  Ken Yeang

  Nature, Views, Two

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

  E. M. Forster

  Beauty, Literature, Nonsense

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.223, Delphi Classics

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• Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Friendship, Family

  Barbara Bush (1994). “Barbara Bush: A Memoir”, Scribner

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• Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

  Louis Agassiz

  Stupid, Law, Facts

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• When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.

  Jack Kornfield

  World, Busy, Caught

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• A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Life, Stronger

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• Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.

  Vaclav Havel

  Motivational, Ability, Perceive

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• A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

  Norman Cousins

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Saturday Review, April 15, 1978.

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• Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Issues, Spirituality

  Interview with Alan Fox, www.rattle.com. January 30, 1999.

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• There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Country, Philosophy, Book

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• Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

  Marquis de Sade

  Faith, Understanding, Immediate Connection

  Marquis de Sade (2016). “Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man”, p.6, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

  Dean Kamen

  Thinking, Age, Today

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• It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Fun, Educational, Learning

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• Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.

  Jessica Lange

  Family, Death, Ties

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• A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other's individual natures, behind their facades, and who connect on this deeper level.

  John Welwood

  Two, People, Soul

  John Welwood (1996). “Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship”, Harpercollins

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• And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.

  John Irving

  Taken, Responsibility, Writing

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