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• We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.

  Barnett Newman

  Men, Desire, Emotion

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• Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Kindness, Writing, Heart

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• With the practice of deep meditation the mind contacts the Bliss Consciousness of the Spirit and becomes more peaceful, happy, creative and powerful. This state of mind enriches all values of material life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Powerful, Practice, Creative

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• I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Children, Opportunity

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• There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Drawing, Way, Draws

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Merely to see... is not enough. It is necessary to have a fresh, vivid, physical contact with the object you draw through as many of the senses as possible - and especially through the sense of touch.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Vivid, Enough, Draws

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was a bookworm, and very skinny with big, thick glasses. I never went on dates and guys were afraid of me because I was smart. So I got contact lenses, started to dress a little better and tried not to talk about Plato with boys. It worked!

  Julianne Moore

  Plato, Smart, Boys

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• The chances of there being transmissibility by blood to blood contact on a basketball court is so infinitesimally small that it is something that shouldn't influence a decision whether someone would come back or not.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Basketball, Blood, Decision

  "AIDS researcher: Magic's comeback poses no threat". "News Briefs", www.cnn.com. January 27, 1996.

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• In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

  Piet Mondrian

  Past, Effort, Age

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• In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Triumph

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• The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Knowledge, Rude

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “Hyperion”, p.79

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• For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

  Rachel Carson

  History, Historical, Environmental

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Other Cultures, People, Support

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1979). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.

  Robert E. Howard

  Oil, Bully, Fields

  Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, July 23, 1935.

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• There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections of this Union have illustrated their courage on too many battlefields to be questioned. They have shown their fighting qualities shoulder to shoulder whenever their country has called upon them; but that they may never come in contact with each other in fratricidal war, should be the ardent wish of every true man and honest patriot.

  Robert Toombs

  Country, War, Fighting

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• I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

  John Muir, Richard Kauffman (1964). “Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada”

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• Monks congregate like dogs in a kennel,
  From contact with their superiors they acquire knowledge,
  Is one the course of the wind, is one the water of the sea?
  Is one the spark of the fire, of unrestrainable tumult?
  Monks congregate like wolves,
  From contact with their superiors they acquire knowledge.
  They know not when the deep night and dawn divide.
  Nor what is the course of the wind, or who agitates it,
  In what place it dies away, on what land it roars.

  Taliesin

  Dog, Night, Wind

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• The white man has succeeded in subduing the world by forcing everybody to think his way....The white man's propaganda has made him the master of the world, and all those who have come in contact with it and accepted it have become his slaves.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Thinking, White Man

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• This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Beautiful, Girl, Summer

  Karen Thompson Walker (2014). “The Age of Miracles”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet. Rear them, if possible, amid pleasant surroundings ... Let nature teach them the lessons of good and proper living, combined with an abundance of well-balanced nourishment. Those children will grow to be the best men and women. Put the best in them by contact with the best outside. They will absorb it as a plant absorbs the sunshine and the dew.

  Luther Burbank

  Sweet, Children, Sunshine

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• I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.

  John Muir

  Mother, Feet, Envy

  John Muir (1999). “To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875”

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• I think I might have a bad psychic advisor. When I asked her to contact the dead, she gave me Keith Richards' phone number.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Phones, Psychics

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• I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Littles

  Interview with Bianca Jagger, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2011.

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• When you have found inner peace, you are in constant contact with the source of universal energy and cannot be tired. . . You have endless energy.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Tired, Energy

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• Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm of passion, and soften the heart when shaken by sorrow to its inmost depths.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Nature, Passion, Heart

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