Disconnectedness Quotes

• One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.

  Steven Pinker

  Loneliness, People, Feelings

  "Steven Pinker: the mind reader". www.theguardian.com. November 5, 1999.

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• In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored and denigrated, and experiencing development with a great sense of trauma, loss and social disconnectedness.

  James Wolfensohn

  Loss, Skills, Development

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• There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Library, Overcoming, Gone

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Komarr”, p.63, Baen Books

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• There's a lot wrong [with American universities]. I'd remove 3/4 of the faculty - everything but the hard sciences. But nobody's going to do that, so we'll have to live with the defects. It's amazing how wrongheaded [the teaching is]. There is fatal disconnectedness. You have these squirrelly people in each department who don't see the big picture.

  Charlie Munger

  Teaching, People, American Universities

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• Palestine is about how we drink the water, whether we are being ecological or not. Palestine is our way of exercising our daily living. That's what's going to solve the problem of Palestine. It's also how we think of ourselves spiritually. This kind of disconnectedness is harmful to the person who is acting that way and is sometimes annoying.

  Elia Suleiman

  Exercise, Thinking, Water

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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