Isolated Quotes - Page 27

• Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Taken, Cost, Welcome

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• The northern part of Sweden is considered more isolated, not so sociable, not so educated, more unemployment, very working-class, and people drink more than rest of Sweden; that's the kind of area I'm from.

  Asa Larsson

  Class, People, Unemployment

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• For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.

  Karl Marlantes

  War, Divorce, Dark

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.193, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.

  Eric Schlosser

  Grief, Reality, Murder Victims

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• We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

  Jack Williamson

  Kids, Imagination, Young

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• Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.

  Youssef Ziedan

  Religious, Real, Structure

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• We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.

  Vance Havner

  Moving, Evil, Midst

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• There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.

  Irwin Redlener

  War, Mind, Transition

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• The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Real, Heart

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.247, U of Nebraska Press

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• Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

  Aaron Klein

  Israel, Organization, Violence

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• I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.

  Karin Slaughter

  Children, Thinking, People

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• Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift. You have to take a long-term look at something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America.

  Benjamin Carson

  America, Issues, Government

  "Really, Dr. Carson? Obamacare Is Worse Than 9/11?" by Evan Gahr, www.thedailybeast.com. June 5, 2014.

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• If new species arise very rapidly in small, peripherally isolated local populations, then the great expectation of insensibly graded fossil sequences is a chimera. A new species does not evolve in the area of its ancestors; it does not arise from the slow transformation of all its forbears.
  co-author with Niles Eldridge

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Expectations, Population, Doe

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• I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Believe, Magic

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• When you get to the point where Baghdad is basically isolated, then what is the situation you have in the country? .. You have a country that Baghdad no longer controls; that whatever's happening inside Baghdad is almost irrelevant compared to what's going on in the rest of the country.

  Richard Myers

  Country, Baghdad, Situation

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• Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of other people, you're kind of alienated. Actors say that a lot, and I kind of find that to be true.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Jobs, People, Acting

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• It is people like me who are isolated.

  Grigori Perelman

  People, Like Me

  "Manifold Destiny". www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2006.

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• I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people...I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in.

  Keanu Reeves

  Children, People, Way

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• The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".

  Peter Leithart

  Christian, Giving, Church

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• My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.

  Kent Haruf

  Peaceful, Desire, Quiet

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• Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.

  Paul Auster

  Appreciation, Art, Thinking

  "I want to tell you a story" by Paul Auster, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2006.

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• People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Lonely, Communication, Talking

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• Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.

  Jesse Jackson

  Iraq, America, Long

  "Reverend Jesse Jackson". "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au.

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• People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.

  Steven Soderbergh

  People, Cameras, Shooting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can have somebody living next door to you and you can live in a completely different world from that person, which is definitely something we've never experienced before. So I think just because of the media landscape and the way we get our information now, we're more atomized and isolated from each other than ever before.

  Matt Taibbi

  Thinking, Doors, Media

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2008.

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