#contact

I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe. ↗

— Loretta Young

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February 13, 1936 I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what a mistake and what despair. And myself perhaps... Seek contacts. All contacts. If I want to write about men, should I stop talking about the countryside? If the sky or light attract me, shall I forget the eyes or voices of those I love? Each time I am given the elements of a friendship, the fragments of an emotion, never the emotion or the friendship itself. ↗

— Albert Camus

#despair #emotion #friendship #mistake #useless

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#bad #body #contact #european #five

I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature. ↗

— Robin Day

#contact #get #hands #i #i think

It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe. ↗

— John Blair

#apparently #been #calls #contact #first

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered. ↗

— Franz Boas

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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

#air travel #almost #communication #contact #decades

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#always #anything #avoid #classify #contact

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #lost #reality #simplicity