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

— Margaret J. Wheatley

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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

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Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

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

— Hedy Lamarr

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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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The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off. ↗

— Helen Slater

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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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Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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