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• The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Education, Children, Home

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Poet, Passing, Currents

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• Every acceptance of suffering is an acceptance of that which exists. The denial of every form of suffering can result in a flight from reality in which contact with reality becomes ever thinner, ever more fragmentary. It is impossible to remove oneself totally from suffering, unless one removes oneself from life itself, no longer enters into relationships, makes oneself invulnerable.

  Dorothee Solle

  Acceptance, Reality, Suffering

  Dorothee Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press

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• Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Art, Loss

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• When I think about, say, 1995, or whever the last moment was before most of us were on the internet and had mobile phones, it seems like a hundred years ago. ... Time passed in fairly large units, or at least not in milliseconds and constant updates. A few hours wasn't such a long time to go between moments of contact with your work, your people or your trivia.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Time, Thinking, Phones

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• I know with my size, a lot of people might think I'm like a slasher, a make-you-miss guy, which I can do that. But I also like to lower my shoulder and get the tough yards, too. I like contact. I like to mix it up.

  Javon Ringer

  Thinking, People, Missing

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• Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Selfish, Sensual, Honor

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• service is the joy-giving factor in daily life. It is as spontaneous as light, as subtle as electricity, as exhilarating as sunshine. It exists primarily as a spiritual attitude. It lies in the constant recognition of the brotherhood of humanity toward each and all with whom we come in contact.

  Lilian Whiting

  Spiritual, Attitude, Lying

  Lilian Whiting (1896). “The World Beautiful”

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• Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts.

  Irma S. Rombauer

  Food, People, Cooking

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• Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.

  Meladee McCarty

  Joy, Live Your Life, Challenges

  Meladee McCarty (1996). “Daily Journal of Kindness: A Year Long Guide for Creating Your Own Kindness Revolution”, Hci

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• I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism wrong. They kind of assume that there is a moral equivalence or moral valence to capitalism, but I tend to think that economics erodes all the kind of cultural taboos and inhibitions and values it comes into contact with.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Erode, Moral

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark.

  Big Jim Sullivan

  Men, Ark, He Man

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• We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.

  Cargill Gilston Knott

  Past, Vision, Doubt

  "Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait: supplementing the two volumes of Scientific papers published in 1898 and 1900". Book by Cargill Gilston Knott, p. 1, 1911.

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• Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science; contact, the goal for which we are striving, is as vague and obscure as communion with the saints or the coming of the Messiah.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Space, Goal, Age

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• Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could use help.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Cooking, Use, Helping

  "World Chefs: Geoffrey Zakarian Dishes on Must-have Ingredients in New Book". Interview with Richard Leong, www.reuters.com. November 18, 2014.

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• At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.

  Aimee Mullins

  Glasses, Age, Hips

  "US Paralympics TV coverage disappointing, says chef de mission" by Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that's my life; that's not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man's shoes.

  Kevin Bacon

  Jobs, Men, Compassion

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• I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.

  Ellen Hollman

  Glasses, World, Poor Eyesight

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• I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian community, and most of my friends had blonde hair and blue eyes. So I was always straightening my hair, wearing colored contacts, and I never tanned, if I could help it.

  Shay Mitchell

  Eye, Hair, Blue

  "Shay Mitchell on Standing Out in Hollywood". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. April 2013.

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• When Ive ridden in parades, I always throw to the kids, the elderly and anyone who is smiling and having a great time. I try to make eye contact with the person. If you catch a ton and a kid nearby hasnt caught much, share.

  Bryan Batt

  Kids, Eye, Elderly

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• Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

  Tabare Vazquez

  Opportunity, Medicine, People

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• When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated.

  Joseph R. Bartlett

  Christian, Race, Pagan

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• Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

  Rene Balcer

  Country, Torture

  "The People v. The Torture Team: Six Questions for Law & Order’s René Balcer" by Scott Horton, harpers.org. October 5, 2009.

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• To be in contact with scientists, to become in a small way a scientist myself if possible, perhaps to cast new light on physical phenomena, to be able to uncover what is real and definitive, was my life's great dream.

  Ernest Solvay

  Dream, Real, Men

  "The Solvay Councils and the Birth of Modern Physics" by Pierre Marage, Grégoire Wallenborn, Birkhäuser Verlag, 1999.

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• Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what is going on in the field.

  Alan Tower Waterman

  Teacher, Teaching, Fields

  "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" Vol. 9, No. 2, published by by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc., (p. 38), March 1953.

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