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No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In connection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer?

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.

Now anyone can move anywhere. I've made deep connections with people around the world since I tour everywhere that I will simply never see again.

Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing.

Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was.

Occasionally ask, "What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today?

Once man's connection to the divine is denied, you can reason yourself from here to anywhere.

Often people fail to start or complete a task because they don't see any connection between what they're doing and what they really want to accomplish in life.

Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy . Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience.

Once we have found our passion, we feel a strange contradiction: On one hand, we could die today and life would have been worth it, and at the same time, we want to live forever to continue our connection to our passion.

One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you chant, it's more of a direct connection with God.

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.

Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.

Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world. Instead it is based on the boundless inner energy they gain from their connection with the world of enlightenment.

Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)

Once you realize that the universe is made up of processes, not things, you are really on a roll, for what makes life truly interesting are the connections between events.

Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

One of the points where the art world is at its most metaphysical is in this weird aspect of the power of the expert. There are experts who claim they cannot be fooled because they have an inner connection to an artist and can feel whether something is genuine or fake. I've heard experts say, on panels: When it comes to my period, or my painters, I cannot be fooled. And of course that's completely ridiculous.

One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.

Only in sport? The qualification would seem meaningless to many Australians. What also is there that matters as much as sport? It is only in sport that many Australians express those approaches to life that are un-Australian if expressed in any other connection.

On the other hand, I'm drawn to top hats, and spats, and mustaches. I haven't read a Missed Connection yet with someone wearing a monocle, but rest assured I'll snap it up if I do.

On the road, I try to maintain my connections with friends and family as much as I possibly can. That keeps me pretty grounded.

Opportunities will often come at the unlikeliest of times. Sometimes they're because of instant connections.

Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.

Our connection with our intuitive self is ever present and always a part of ourselves.

Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.

Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.

Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.

Our feet are our body's connection to the earth.

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.

Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.

Our studies have shown that all cases of typhoid of this type have arisen by contact, that is, carried directly from one person to another. There was no trace of a connection to drinking water.

Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you’ll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and connection-the things you thought you’d get by succeeding. Ironic, isn’t it?

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

Our relationship, our shared support, our consistency, is unrivaled by any other connection.

[Pablo] Picasso was born in my hometown, in Málaga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what he did. He left Málaga, practically at the same time and age that I did.

Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and their elders' cold unconcern toward others. Maybe the homeless are not the only ones who need to spend time in these places to thaw out.

Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate of a freedman, declared the separation; the most tender of human connections was degraded to a transient society of profit or pleasure.

Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first.

Part of the writer's task is to recognize what he's done, then dive back in and make the connections clearer. I'm a strong believer in getting things right the ninth or tenth time.

Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit within a patriarchal whole.

People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.

[People] feel a connection to a guy like Omar Mateen. But they clearly are not angry at him.

People are never too young or too old to look for human connection.

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

People like my films. They understand me through my films; it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.

Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.