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Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.


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BRUCE FEILER Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.
GLENN GOULD Investments in the property market should not be seen in isolation from other forms of investment.
HATTA ADAM Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall...
E.M. FORSTER The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.
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JULES VERNE Man does not live in isolation, we depend upon each other.
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CARLOS SALINAS DE GORTARI The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many human...
CHARLES STROSS Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind ...
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STEVE SCHMIDT The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.
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ANDREW GRIFFEY CARRERE Not only are they capable of learning the material, but they are capable of approaching the subject ...
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THOMAS SOWELL Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
THOMAS CARLYLE My fear is the isolation of the school.
BARBARA HARVEY Because knowledge is only a cage if you dwell in isolation.
PENNY REID I may move from everywhere and spend two or three years in total isolation. I like being alone a lot...
JULIE DELPY New York is not operating in isolation. It is a national strategy.
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DANIEL GOLDSTEIN The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capit...
C. L. R. JAMES Personality dwells in association, not isolation.
LILY CHATTERJEE What immigrants feel immediately is isolation.
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DAVID BYRNE That which gives me isolation is my company.
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now, [a time] in which for 1...
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IAIN BANKS It is a reminder that we aren't in isolation. That we are a part of a whole system.
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ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN The commission does not look at applications in isolation.
BRYAN LEE That sort of emergency doesn't present a power issue. That is an isolation issue.
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EVE BRIMACOMBE The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be consid...
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JEAN M. AUEL I'm in hell. I'm separate from everyone and everything. I'm John Travolta in The Boy in the Plastic ...
ANNE CLENDENING Till that period it stays in isolation and avoids food.
D.N. SINGH Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with so...
SEAN BRADY It's not science fiction. The fact is that the world will exist in 100 years, 300 years and one thou...
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DAN BROWN I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.
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AAIDH IBN ABDULLAH AL-QARNI To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner...
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GEORGES RODENBACH If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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WAYNE CORDEIRO a weird combination of isolation and connection and disconnection; discomfort and awkwardness.
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NEIL DIAMOND This is a great way to celebrate the 25th Anniversary and re-live the magic of THE BLUES BROTHERS on...
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