Contact Quotes

• After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Atheist, Philosophical

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• In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

  Carl Sagan

  Emptiness, Found, Bearable

  "Fictional character: Alien". "Contact", 1997.

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• You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares.

  Carl Sagan

  Beautiful, Dream, Nightmare

  "Fictional character: Alien". "Contact", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Ignorant, Censorship

  "Picasso". Book by Antonina Vallentin (p. 168), 1963 (1957).

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• Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Beauty, Truth, Work

  Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull (1969). “The Peter Principle”

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• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

  Carl Jung

  Friendship, Relationship, Positive

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.49, Psychology Press

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• You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

  Carl Sagan

  Beautiful, Dream, Cutting

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• Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teaching, People

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• Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.

  Regina Brett

  Eye, Hands, People

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• Radiate an energy of serenity and peace so that you have an uplifting effect on those you come into contact with.

  Wayne Dyer

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Peace

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Everyday Wisdom for Success (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Happy, Art, Feelings

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.10, Princeton University Press

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• The eyes are the windows to the soul

  Hilary Duff

  Eye, Window To The Soul, Shop Windows

  Hilary Duff (2011). “Elixir”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

  Carl Sagan

  Two, Government, Firsts

  "Fictional character: S.R. Hadden". "Contact", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults and children. In contact with nature, a person rediscovers his correct dimension, rediscovers himself as a creature, small but at the same time unique, with a "capacity for God" because interiorly he is open to the Infinite.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Children, Book

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• Eye contact is way more intimate than words will ever be.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Eye, Way, Intimate

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• No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.

  Mikhail Prokhorov

  Agency, Government, Makers

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• Look here — we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only, meanness will vanish from you, practicality in work will come, you will get new vigour in mind and body, and those who come in contact with you will also feel that they have really got something uplifting from you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Mind, Looks

  "Complete Works".

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• Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

  Carl Jung

  Age, Losing, Forgotten

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.98, North Atlantic Books

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• Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a deeply private place and profoundly affected all those who came into contact with it.

  Steven Shainberg

  Artist, Mysterious, Century

  "Shainberg and 'Secretary' Team Reunite for 'Arbus'" by Eugene Hernandez, www.indiewire.com. July 28, 2003.

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• It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the practical work done in computing, both in software and in hardware design, is unsound and clumsy because the people who do it have not any clear understanding of the fundamental design principles of their work. Most of the abstract mathematical and theoretical work is sterile because it has no point of contact with real computing.

  Christopher Strachey

  Real, Views, Long

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• After about midday my dad sent cars from his private collection for us. We were told to get in. We had almost lost contact with my father and brothers because things had got out of hand. I saw with my own eyes the [Iraqi] army withdrawing and the terrified faces of the Iraqi soldiers who, unfortunately, were running away and looking around them. Missiles were falling on my left and my right - they were not more than fifty or one hundred metres away. We moved in small cars. I had a gun between my feet just in case.

  Raghad Hussein

  Running, Brother, Dad

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• I'm from Kentucky. I used to be very personable and make eye contact and smile at people, and now all I do is look down. When I'm at dinner and one person after another keeps interrupting to take pictures, it's like, "I can't live like this."

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Eye, Kentucky, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I find human contact repulsive.

  Larry David

  Humans

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• Contact with the sacred occurs in the stillness of the heart and mind. If there is any real destination to the spiritual quest, it is this point of silence, the middle of the spiral, the center of the self. ... The only map that does the spiritual traveler any good is one that leads to the center.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Real, Heart

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• We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that "I myself" is a seperate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body-a center which "confronts" an "external" world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange.

  Alan Watts

  People, Feelings, Suffering

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.8, Souvenir Press

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