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• The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.

  Sigmund Freud

  Doe, Purpose, Individual

  Sigmund Freud (2008). “General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Friday, Men, Blue

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Laughter in the Dark”, p.73, Penguin UK

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• I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is just at those moments when I feel least sorrow - getting into my morning bath is usually one of them - that H. rushes upon my mind in her full reality, her otherness. Not, as in my worst moments, all foreshortened and patheticized and solemnized by my miseries, but as she is in her own right. This is good and tonic.

  C. S. Lewis

  Morning, Grief, Cutting

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.27, Faber & Faber

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• If there's anything you want to do and you can't figure out why you're not doing it, there's a simple answer: you link more pain to doing it than not doing it. Hey, if you don't have enough money, for example I know that's an issue for a lot of people. It was for a good deal of my life. If you don't have money there's only one reason: you link more pain to having more money than to not having it.

  Tony Robbins

  Pain, Simple, Issues

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• Faith is this extraordinary principle which links man to God; faith is this thing that keeps a man from hell and puts him in heaven; it is the connection between this world and the world to come; faith is this mystic astounding thing that can take a man dead in trespasses and sins and make him live as a new being, a new man in Christ Jesus.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Jesus, Men, Heaven

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1995). “Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings”, Nelson Bibles

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• We should not be living in human communities that enclose tiny preserved ecosystems within them. Human communities should be maintained in small population enclaves within linked wilderness ecosystems. No human community should be larger than 20,000 people and separated from other communities by wilderness areas. Communication systems can link the communities.

  Paul Watson

  Communication, Ecosystems, People

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• We are not isolated islands, we are connected links in a chain. Each kind word, each smiling face, each good action, benefits our neighbor, nation, world. Let us pray and meditate together and we shall reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of love and vibrations of unity and harmony. Tuning our minds to the supreme consciousness, let us open our hearts and chant the words, "May everyone everywhere be happy."

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Sweet, Heart, Islands

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• Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and intimacy. We are becoming more restless, more impatient, more demanding, and more insatiable, even as we become more connected and creative. We are rapidly losing the ability to think long about any- thing, even those issues we care about. We flit, moving restlessly from one link to another.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Memories, Moving, Thinking

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• God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.

  Maxim Gorky

  Ideas, Humanity, Feelings

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• I definitely think education is important and both education and sport link really well together. I like to give education and sport the best that I can to see if I can succeed in both.

  Jazmin Carlin

  Sports, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Nature, Made

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised”, p.85, A&C Black

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• Bodies and minds need breaks or the work suffers, this has been proven and reproven to the point where we don't even need to post links to support it.

  Carolyn Hax

  Support, Mind, Suffering

  "Carolyn Hax Live: With the usual apologies to wolves". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 5, 2016.

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• You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Strong, Ocean

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion. The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Real, Moving, Passion

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan

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• All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever.

  Margaret Atwood

  Games, Tree, Forever

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.223, Anchor

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• Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it’s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged?" The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. "We’re all damaged somehow.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Rain, Eye

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.335, Delacorte Press

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• These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking. Jonah Griggs takes my hand under the table and links my fingers with his and I know that I would sacrifice almost anything just to keep this state of mind, for the rest of the week at least.

  Melina Marchetta

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Hands

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• Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa, and before that some bunch of curious monkeys. Down and down we go unto the sea, unto the dust, the single cellular dust. What impulse drove one cell to become two? What yearning pulled the fish on to the land? What caused apes to walk upright? Some invisible magnetic pull. Is there a difference between attraction and intention? Where is evolution taking us?

  Russell Brand

  Dna, Cells, Dust

  Russell Brand (2014). “Revolution”, p.66, Ballantine Books

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• I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Liars, Love Is, Men

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• Essentially, there's a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link-ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace-electronic space.

  Timothy Leary

  Numbers, Space, People

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• I think that as much as any leader is marketed we have to learn that unless we inject ourselves specifically and link our revolution to the economic struggle of our people and address those specific issues then we're never really going to have control of what happens.

  Immortal Technique

  Struggle, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Even in the Senate, I'd put up any of the stories we did against any pablum Time or Newsweek has put out on global warming. We'd link to the other side; we'd present their arguments. They do one-sided screeds.

  Marc Morano

  Stories, Sides, Global Warming

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• In this work (peace building), the role of religion is fundamental. It is not possible to build bridges between people while forgetting God, ... But the converse is also true: it is not possible to establish true links with God while ignoring other people. Hence it is important to intensify dialogue among the various religions, and I am thinking particularly of dialogue with Islam.

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, Bridges, People

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• Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives), they are also subject to further duplication, either through the procedures of printing or as objects of still other photographs.

  Craig Owens

  Photograph, Printing, Chains

  Craig Owens, Scott Stewart Bryson (1994). “Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture”, p.26, Univ of California Press

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• They've found a link between chemicals in shampoo and obesity. If you're eating shampoo, your weight is the least of your concerns.

  Craig Ferguson

  Weight, Obesity, Eating

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