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  • There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. -- Washington Irving
  • That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again. -- Florentijn Hofman
  • It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians. -- Frank Morgan
  • I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers. -- Penn Jillette
  • The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost. -- Jaron Lanier
  • In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. -- Jean Piaget
  • Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace. -- Frans de Waal
  • A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough. -- Joy Williams
  • It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West! -- Greg Bear
  • The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. -- James G. Frazer
  • Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy. -- Klaus Fuchs
  • God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are. -- Lucy Larcom
  • The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding. -- John Warnock
  • The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged in face-to-face argumentation, Jews and Christians spoke about each other in essentially disputational terms. -- David Novak
  • The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can use academics as profitably as Kennedy did during his political career. -- Donald E. Graham
  • During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts. -- David Bohm
  • It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people. -- Terry Riley
  • People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact. -- Emile Durkheim
  • I don't have much contact at all with other black metal bands. -- Mick Barr
  • Every mind needs friendly contact with other minds, for food of expansion and growth. -- Napoleon Hill
  • When we contact each other, we change each other. We are constantly making each other. -- John Powell
  • Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other. -- Shirley Chisholm
  • Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too. -- Carolyn Hax
  • We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief. -- Veronica Roth
  • The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all. -- Gerald R. Ford
  • The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other. -- Bill Gates
  • There are other people on the Internet. It's awesome. You get all the benefits of 'other people' without the body odor and the eye contact. -- Rainbow Rowell
  • The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect. -- Dalai Lama
  • Words are contact with other beings. I see a word that says something I've noticed, seen, felt, obserevd, and I capture it; "I need that word!" -- Vanna Bonta
  • I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other. -- Gloria Steinem
  • Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that. -- Ronald Reagan
  • To keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The brain cannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with other people. -- Robert E. Ornstein
  • Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what is going on in the field. -- Alan Tower Waterman
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  • Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact. -- Sarah Addison Allen
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