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• I have not missed a day in my life of praying. It's always about the same thing, using my life as a vehicle. Whatever I do, let it bring goodness to myself and to everybody that I come in contact with.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Prayer, Praying, Goodness

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• The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.

  Juvenal

  Grapes

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• Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Hero, Advice, Afar

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• We have the reverse of the Puritan work ethic in America now. No one ever becomes a star by plugging along year after year. What is needed is flair, talent, 'an eye,' contacts, charisma, and, most of all, naturalness.

  Judith Martin

  Stars, Eye, Years

  Judith Martin (1986). “Style and substance: a comedy of manners”, Scribner

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• From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.

  Ayya Khema

  Feelings, Birth, Reactions

  Geshe Tashi Tsering, Ayya Khema (2010). “Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought:”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are not too nicely to scrutinize motives as long as action is irreproachable. It is enough (and for a worthy man perhaps too much) to deal out its infamy to convicted guilt and declared apostasy.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Long, Guilt

  Edmund Burke (2008). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: On Conciliation with America; Security of the Independence of Parliament; on Mr. Fox's East India”, p.242, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of brains, courage and initiative, by their extraordinary ability to get themselves into uncomfortable or dangerous situations and then wait in inert helplessness for someone to rescue them.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Character, Dangerous Situations, Sheep

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• The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of human living. Man cannot be happy for long unless he is in contact with the springs of spiritual life which are hidden in the depths of his own soul. If man is exiled constantly from his own home, locked out of his spiritual solitude, he ceases to be a true person.

  Thomas Merton

  Happy, Spiritual, Peace

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• Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Truth, Racism, People

  Shirley Chisholm (1970). “Unbought and Unbossed”

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• A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe; a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Soul, Saint, Mystery

  Evelyn Underhill (2006). “Lent With Evelyn Underhill”, p.34, A&C Black

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• As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Spiritual, Self, World

  Evelyn Underhill, Christopher L. Webber (2006). “Advent with Evelyn Underhill”, p.37, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

  Freya Stark

  Hate, Book, Wife

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• As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.

  Mary McCarthy

  Fate, Ordinary, Worst

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• Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Fighting, Friendly, Way

  Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”

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• No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

  Jane Addams

  Men, Realizing, He Man

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.120, Courier Corporation

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• I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you." Not just the parents who are raising you on a day-to-day basis, but also to have contact with your birth mother and hopefully your birth father. So that you can be like, "Oh, they love me too, and they love me so much that they knew they couldn't take care of me but they're still in my life to some extent."

  Kathleen Hanna

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Kathleen Hanna on buffalo chicken, Destiny's Child, and the sketchy things she did to McDonald's apple pies". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. February 10, 2015.

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• My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.

  Werner Herzog

  Simple, Doe, Needs

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• There's the caveman in us. The caveman in you says, "I want direct contact. I don't want a picture." The caveman in our body says once in a while, we have to go outside. We have to meet real people, talk to real people, and do real things.

  Michio Kaku

  Real, People, Body

  "US Futurologist Michio Kaku: 'Eternal Life Does Not Violate the Laws of Physics'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. September 28, 2012.

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• Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see.

  Henry George

  Flames, Ideas, Torches

  Henry George, William Saunders, Francis George Shaw (1900). “Social problems”

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• No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Morning, Block, Ice

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• Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

  Ilka Chase

  Distance, Attachment, May

  Ilka Chase (1948). “Free Admission”

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• For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.

  Uta Hagen

  Believe, Peculiar, Way

  Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.104, John Wiley & Sons

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• Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

  Beatrice Webb

  Education, Men, Self

  Beatrice Potter Webb (1963). “American diary, 1898”

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• There is something very sensual about a letter. The physical contact of pen to paper, the time set aside to focus thoughts, the folding of the paper into the envelope, licking it closed, addressing it, a chosen stamp, and then the release of the letter to the mailbox - are all acts of tenderness.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Focus, Sensual, Paper

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.84, Vintage

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• The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts--against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead.

  Joseph Stalin

  Leadership, Art, Fighting

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