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• I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going, ban all the artists coming in from Russia? But then you're really leaving the men and women who are gay and suffering under the antigay laws in an isolated situation. As a gay man, I can't leave those people on their own without going over there and supporting them. I don't know what's going to happen, but I've got to go.

  Elton John

  Gay, Artist, Men

  "Elton John: 'When I was on drugs there was a monstrous side to me'". Interview With Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2013.

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• On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern art appears fragmented and sectarian, defined as much by manifestos as imaginative work.

  C. D. Innes

  Art, Order, Rejection

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• I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat, life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand. I was thinking to myself, 'There's five billion people here but we've never been more isolated.' The only result of the aggressive individualism we pursue is that you lose sight of your compassion and we go to bed at night thinking, 'Is this all there is?' because we don't feel fulfilled.

  Devin Townsend

  Night, Thinking, Compassion

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• Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually.

  Flora Thompson

  Emotion

  Flora Thompson (1979). “A Country Calendar, and Other Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It is also a fact that people who are isolated and alienated in their neighborhoods as a result of the large number of neighbors who do not speak Norwegian, who do not follow the Norwegian customs, norms and way of life, could have psychosomatic disorders that can lead to both sickness leave and need for medical help.

  Carl I. Hagen

  Numbers, People, Needs

  "Kong Carl". Book by Jan Ove Ekeberg, Jan Arild Snoen, 2001.

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• Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow, the assumption that his economic goal is primary, and his other activities are instrumental to it. The planting and the cultivating are no less important than the finished product. Life is not conceived as a linear progression directed to, and justified by, the achievement of a series of goals; it is a cycle in which ends cannot be isolated, one which cannot be dissected into a series of ends and means.

  John Carroll

  Believe, Mean, Goal

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.121, Taylor & Francis

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• The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

  Pierre Duhem

  Science, Groups, Tests

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• No one chair should be isolated.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Furniture, Chairs, Should

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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• the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Reality, Moats, Neurosis

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”

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• I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mean, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• We live in a global community and we can't really remain isolated. I believe that when we hold a very narrow view about our attitudes of politics or culture or religion, then we cut out the opportunity to really engage with other points of view.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Attitude, Believe, Cutting

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• I grew up in a suburban situation and I was constantly looking for the central, the town. I grew up craving. "Where's the town? Where's the people?" You get into a very isolated shell.

  Debra Granik

  People, Shells, Towns

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Climate, Favors, Today

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• Theres just something wonderful about getting a small group of people together in an isolated location, and theres something about cabins themselves that imply both horror and fun. When you go to a cabin, youre usually going to have a good time.

  Drew Goddard

  Fun, People, Together

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• Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.

  Suzanne Gordon

  School, Years, People

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• Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause to individuals whose own work does not require isolated effort, the writer who is engaged on a book must learn to say it. He must say it consistently to all interrupters; to the numerous callers and correspondents who want him to speak, open bazaars, see them for 'only' ten minutes, attend literary parties, put people up, or read, correct and find publishers for semi-literate manuscripts by his personal friends.

  Vera Brittain

  Book, Party, People

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• Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement and invalidism with an available and harmless solace.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Retirement, Cheer, Character

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• Scene study is isolated. I suppose its interesting, but I dont think it really teaches you about a throughline. A throughline is something you feel when you do one scene followed by another followed by another.

  Glenne Headly

  Thinking, Interesting, Study

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• As early as second grade I remember feeling really different and isolated. I had the hugest crush on a boy, and my best friend had a crush on him, too. One day he said to me, 'I like your best friend more because she's paler and she has freckles.' And it was right then that I began to feel like, Oh wow, I'm different.

  America Ferrera

  Crush, I Like You, Boys

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• It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?"

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Knowledge, Self, Demand

  "Science and Humanism". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1951.

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• the American public has been delicately insulated from the actuality of our ongoing wars. While a tiny fraction of men and women fighting our wars are deploying again and again, civilian life remains pretty much isolated in cost-free complacency.

  Rachel Maddow

  War, Fighting, Men

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.207, Broadway Books

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• ...Seattle has unleashed this weird phenomenon on the world called the coffee shop. And the coffee shop, thanks to Starbucks, is the place where socially isolated, lonely, needy people gather together to ignore one another.

  Mark Driscoll

  Lonely, Coffee, People

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• I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

  Ann Richards

  Regret, War, Sacrifice

  Ann Richards' Address at the Democratic National Convention in Texas, www.nytimes.com. July 19, 1988.

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• it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

  Elizabeth Wordsworth

  Character, Men, Genius

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• The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.

  Michel de Certeau

  Taken, Men, Order

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.191, Univ of California Press

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