#isolate

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. ↗

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

#great men #isolated #men #ranges #rarely

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#areas #balance #because #being #extent

Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons. ↗

— John Walsh

#adam #any #children #day #diverse

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#exists #independent #isolated #know #nothing

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies. ↗

— Francis Wright

#been #blunted #carried #competition #edge

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#build #case #complaints #divorce #how

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

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I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#classified #even #found #genus #had

When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity. ↗

— Martin Sheen

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Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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