The trick is not to be isolated―if you're isolated, like Winston Smith in 1984, then sooner or later you're going to break, as he finally broke. That was the point of Orwell's story. In fact, the whole tradition of popular control has been exactly that: to keep people isolated, because if you can keep them isolated enough, you can get them to believe anything. But when people get together, all sorts of things are possible.
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techniques, they won'... STEPHEN R. COVEY A lot of older people were isolated out in the woods. GORDON THIBODEAUX I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so ... BRYAN ROBSON Areas like (Albuquerque) tend to have a lot of great musicians. Cities like that are isolated, so th... LAURA BACA They've isolated us. There's something about bears. People see them as cute and cuddly. ROBERT CHAPMAN If someone you know gets sick from taking a flu shot, you will be less likely to get one even if it ... DAVID MCRANEY These armed groups of people have appeared in a very specific environment, and we have been trying a... IBRAHIM RUGOVA Aukeman quotes Norman Mailer: "No wonder then that these have been the years of conformity and ... ANASTASIA AUKEMAN We have to keep a good frame of mind and not overlook La Villa. Anytime you do that, youre going to ... HECTOR GARCIA If you're in a rural area, folks feel professionally and personally isolated. We need to link them w... DR. MARVIN SWARTZ Those same closed economies, isolated from the risks of the global economy, have also been isolated ... BILL CLINTON The wounds are in the process of healing, ... They have not healed, but there are isolated moments w... CECIL MURRAY He doesn't know what language is. He has been totally isolated, STEPHEN SACHS This was an incident that should've never happened, but you really can't control a few isolated indi... DAN BURNS The State Attorney is doing everything humanly possible to solve this isolated incident as quickly a... FELIPE DURAN All institutions and systems have been destroyed and he has failed to create anything new. He has is... RAJENDRA DAHAL I think he feels that we're important. He said you get so isolated in Washington D.C.. It was very t... PAT ALLEN Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part. 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GERMANY KENT I've gotten to go to far-off places in the world, have very unique, isolated, intense experience... LEONARDO DICAPRIO It proves two things. He's not dead. And despite all the things we say about him being isolated and ... MICHAEL SCHEUER Our weather folks are telling us we're going to get some rain, but the problem is it will be isolate... E. LYNN BURKETT Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Fifteen years ago, it wouldn't have been the case. When you don't have free agency and all of that, ... BILL BELICHICK I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they... JAMES TAYLOR You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the ... NORA EPHRON We are finding, more and more, children are isolated from nature. Going to the Laguna is a big deal ... MARY ABBOTT Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, comm... SUSAN VREELAND It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because... NATALIE IMBRUGLIA The real concern is that it is spreading. We have not been able to put the fire out yet, and to thin... DON ROOSE That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longi... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isola... TOYO ITO People who feel excluded get angry and act out their anger in the team. No man is an island, no pers... DRAGOS BRATASANU The whole point of fanfiction is that you get to play inside somebody else's universe. Rewrite the r... RAINBOW ROWELL Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful. MILAN KUNDERA To some extent [price gouging] has happened, ... But my understanding is that it's been relatively r... MARK ROUTT We wanted to kill the clock. We wanted to get Lance isolated so he could make the shot. GREG SPARLING The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and tha... REE DRUMMOND Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball. JIM SENSENBRENNER People said, 'Maybe this is an isolated event,' E. HURLEY They have glassed sliding doors. That affords privacy for the patient as well as allows for a crying... KATHY HULL Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakes... DANIEL WEBSTER Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakes... DANIEL WEBSTER The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You s... VERA FARMIGA I'd like to think it was an isolated incident because we've put the word out repeatedly. LANEDRA CARROLL The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to ... GEORGE MALLORY The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to ... GEORGE LEIGH MALLORY It is only your passion which takes you forward. So it is my gyaan to all budding singers that keep ... SHREYA GHOSHAL They are more isolated, and it can breed brooding. It would make them feel so much better...to do so... GORDON SAUER Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... You end up isolated if you don't cultivate the capacity for solitude, the ability to be separate, to... SHERRY TURKLE No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learn... ARTHUR ERICKSON I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence. The idea of being a character who i... ROBIN WILLIAMS It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying iso... TERRY PRATCHETT The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK When you get to your 11th drummer, and then things start going well, you can get him to do just abou... BEN CLARK unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrif... BRIGITTE BARDOT We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us ... RABINDRANATH TAGORE And I know when you’re a teenager everybody feels different and alien to the other people around t... SEAN KENNEDY It's nice to see these children running around and playing. It's not like you're isolated There's be... JOYCE PITTMAN No matter how giant and rich you are, if you are isolated you will fall and remain alone in this wor... SUNDAY ADELAJA The goal was to try and keep them in the 50s. But when you've got an outfit like that with so many p... WILLIE SCHLARMAN There's a danger of exploitation when you get the galleries and museums involved and it's being sens... ERICA TERMAN The German position must move in this direction or they will be completely isolated. They will attem... FRANK UMBACH It's going to be very interesting to see how it goes. It's great this country is not so isolated tha... BERT BRANTLEY As long as it's a small isolated incident I don't think that the market is going to be much affected... LANCE DEPEW The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and lear... DALLAS WILLARD Once upon a time, in the not-so-distant past, very weird people were effectively isolated from all t... CALIBAN DARKLOCK Collaborations are really hard to achieve, ... We've all been so isolated. The common denominator th... DANIEL VALDEZ
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NOAM CHOMSKY The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflatio... NOAM CHOMSKY For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement. NOAM CHOMSKY The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich ... NOAM CHOMSKY The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour. NOAM CHOMSKY In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students. NOAM CHOMSKY It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, w... NOAM CHOMSKY In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and kil... NOAM CHOMSKY The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial e... NOAM CHOMSKY From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies ... NOAM CHOMSKY There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which say... NOAM CHOMSKY Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how tha... NOAM CHOMSKY When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn... NOAM CHOMSKY The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg p... NOAM CHOMSKY The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the O... NOAM CHOMSKY If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers ... NOAM CHOMSKY The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but i... NOAM CHOMSKY The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-ri... NOAM CHOMSKY In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in ... NOAM CHOMSKY When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. ... NOAM CHOMSKY Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop mea... NOAM CHOMSKY My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew togethe... NOAM CHOMSKY Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and re... NOAM CHOMSKY Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use! NOAM CHOMSKY I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. NOAM CHOMSKY Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let... NOAM CHOMSKY