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• Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.

  Bell Hooks

  Self, How To Love, Environment

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• Battling terrorism must go beyond belligerence vs. isolation.

  Barack Obama

  Terrorism, Belligerence

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• Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Goes On, Littles, Too Much

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• It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place.

  James Cameron

  Black, Tiny, Realizing

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• I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

  David Blaine

  Mcdonalds, Ideas, Fasting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.

  Frederic Bastiat

  War, Giving, Hatred

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• We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return... The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation... the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Past, Race, Years

  "The Exploration of Space". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1951.

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• We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak. The people who were around the patient are now being identified and traced by the CDC and by the state health authorities. ... you get people, you identify them, and you observe and monitor them daily to determine if they develop symptoms If they do, then you put them under isolation to determine if, in fact, they are infected. And if you do that properly, you can shut down any outbreak.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Ebola, People, Facts

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• Since taking office, I've made it clear that the United States was prepared to begin a new chapter of engagement with the Islamic Republic of Iran. We offered the Iranian government a clear choice. It could fulfill its international obligations and realize greater security, deeper economic and political integration with the world, and a better future for all Iranians. Or it could continue to flout its responsibilities and face even more pressure and isolation.

  Barack Obama

  Islamic, Responsibility, Iran

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• Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Mistake, Self

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.597, Xist Publishing

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• Losing friends and spouses is an inevitable part of aging, and many people have a tendency to go quietly into semi-isolation. Instead, set your intention on expanding and deepening the love in your life.

  Deepak Chopra

  People, Losing Friends, Aging

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• Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.

  Zhang Xin

  Country, Mean, Growth

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• This, for instance, is what Egon Bahr said on June 26, 1990: "If we do not now undertake clear steps to prevent a division of Europe, this will lead to Russia's isolation."Bahr, a wise man, had a very concrete suggestion as to how this danger could be averted.

  Vladimir Putin

  Wise, Men, Europe

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I believe that a country, Russia in this case, which can defend the honour and dignity of its citizens, protect their lives, and fulfill its international legal commitments under the peacekeeping mandate, will not find itself in isolation, no matter what our partners in Europe or the United States may think, expressing their bloc mentality.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Believe, Commitment

  Source: russialist.org

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• For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

  Brad Listi

  Done, Littles, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think any show has the potential to bring about social change. I do not think any one show in isolation can do it. I think it is a groundswell that needs to continue to be bolstered from all ends.

  Trevor Noah

  Thinking, Needs, Social

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Losing a son, losing a daughter, a brother, a sister, losing a close friend - it can go beyond grief to isolation and feeling despair.

  Tim Kaine

  Daughter, Brother, Grief

  "Hillary Clinton Picks Her VP Nominee: Who Is Tim Kaine?". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 23, 2016.

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• I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation.

  Wayne Coyne

  Thinking, Mind, Want

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Yoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does not exist in absolute isolation from the world and worldly matters.

  Rod Stryker

  Spiritual, Yoga, Sublime

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• Success, to me, is helping one person or many people counter the isolation and pseudoconnectivity of our lives by boosting their ability to connect to themselves and to others.

  Esther Perel

  People, Helping, Ability

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• I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.

  Feist

  Thinking, People, Cases

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2010.

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• we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.

  Judith Viorst

  Love Is, Terror, Separateness

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.

  Brendan Dooling

  Solitude, Humbling, Vulnerability

  "Brendan Dooling is passionate about everything he works on". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There has been, for some reason (or more likely an unfortunate accumulation of reasons) a trend over the past several decades for parents to do the work of parenting in the isolation of their own homes - and not only that, this trend has overlapped with the other trend of much deeper parent involvement in raising kids. That you also represent trend No. 3, more people raising kids solo, has only exacerbated a close-to-no-win situation.

  Carolyn Hax

  Home, Kids, Winning

  "Carolyn Hax Live: With the usual apologies to wolves". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 8, 2016.

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• We don't live abundant and happy lives in isolation or by being takers. So by giving away your purpose to others, you will find that others want to GIVE to you, too.

  Mastin Kipp

  Happy Life, Giving, Purpose

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