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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

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You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to. ↗

— Ivor Novello

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

— Robert Smithson

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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. ↗

— Valerie Solanas

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Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward. ↗

— Charles Sturt

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Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

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Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

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