{"quotes":[{"text":"Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.","author":"Arthur Aron","tags":["contact","humanity","intimacy","psychology","relationship"],"id":13691,"author_id":"Arthur+Aron"},{"text":"Sometimes I think there must be a sort of pollen of ideas floating in the air, which fertilizes similarly minds here and there which have not had direct contact.","author":"William Faulkner","tags":["contact","ideas","mind","pollen"],"id":44474,"author_id":"William+Faulkner"},{"text":"At the National Institute for Medical Research, I came into contact with biological scientists and formed collaborative projects with several of them. In particular, George Popjak and I shared an interest in cholesterol.","author":"John Cornforth","tags":["research","contact","interest "],"id":54095,"author_id":"John+Cornforth"},{"text":"My mother always wanted to live near the water,' she said. 'She said it's the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.","author":"Megan Miranda","tags":["africa","beautiful","coast","connect","connection","contact","country","death","distance","distances","foot","girl","inspirational","knowing","lake","linking","links","living","maine","mom","mother","mum","near","ocean","opposite","oppressive","proximity","relationship","sad","sea","shore","sides","thinking","thoughts","toe","together","true","truth","water","wisdom","wise","world"],"id":58703,"author_id":"Megan+Miranda"},{"text":"If [Patricia Highsmith] saw an acquaintance walking down the sidewalk she would deliberately cross over so as to avoid them. When she came in contact with people, she realised she split herself into many different, false, identities, but, because she loathed lying and deceit, she chose to absent herself completely rather than go through such a charade. Highsmith interpreted this characteristic as an example of 'the eternal hypocrisy in me', rather her mental shape-shifting had its source in her quite extraordinary ability to empathise. Her imaginative capacity to subsume her own identity, while taking on the qualities of those around her - her negative capability, if you like - was so powerful that she said she often felt like her inner visions were far more real than the outside world. She aligned herself with the mad and the miserable, 'the insane man who feels himself one with all mankind, all life, because in losing his mind, he has lost his ego, his self-ness', yet realised that such a state inspired her fiction. Her ambition, she said, was to write about the underlying sickness of this 'daedal planet' and capture the essence of the human condition: eternal disappointment.","author":"Andrew Wilson","tags":["ambition","autism","avoid","avoidance","charade","contact","deceit","disappointment","ego","empathise","empathy","fiction","human","hypocrisy","identities","identity","imagination","insane","life","loathe","lying","mad","mankind","mind","miserable","outside","people","planet","self-ness","sickness","split","subsume","vision","visions"],"id":66949,"author_id":"Andrew+Wilson"},{"text":"The day when the fire that we had lit in our minds reaches our hearts, we will start turning every person that we come in contact with into ashes. We become the ghosts that we always feared.","author":"Akshay Vasu","tags":["ashes","contact","destruction","fear","fire","ghosts","heart","mind"],"id":71508,"author_id":"Akshay+Vasu"},{"text":"We may wonder what is going on in the back of the mind and what betides in the mood of some people who live on the edge of isolation and emotional poverty. They belong to life’s outcasts: deserted by affection, deprived of physical or lingual contact and finally reduced to silence. ('Why didn't he ask ? ').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["affection","contact","deprived","deserted","edge","emotional","isolation","life","mind","mood","outcasts","physical","poverty","silence"],"id":74506,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,' [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East Harlem] says. 'They contain people with real ability, wonderful people many of them, but the typical sequence is that in the course of organization leaders have found each other, gotten all involved in each others' social lives, and have ended up talking to nobody but each other. They have not found their followers. Everything tends to degenerate into ineffective cliques, as a natural course. There is no normal public life. Just the mechanics of people learning what s going on is so difficult. It all makes the simplest social gain extra hard for these people.","author":"Jane Jacobs","tags":["68","cities","contact","design","planning","sidewalks","social"],"id":96043,"author_id":"Jane+Jacobs"},{"text":"Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each other out if they come in contact.Keeping antimatter isolated from matter is a challenge, of course, because everything on earth is made of matter. The samples have to be stored without ever touching anything at all—even air.","author":"Dan Brown","tags":["air","antimatter","atmosphere","cancel-each-other-out","cancel-out","challenge","challenges","contact","energy","image","instant","instantly","isolated","isolation","matter","mirror-image","opposite","opposites","samples","science","theories","theory","touch","touching"],"id":97904,"author_id":"Dan+Brown"},{"text":"There is a huge difference between those who follow Christ by words only and those who do so by action. The latter will always let you experience the steadfast love of God whenever you come into contact with them.","author":"Gift Gugu Mona","tags":["action","contact","difference","experience","follow-christ","huge","latter","love-of-god","steadfast","words"],"id":102368,"author_id":"Gift+Gugu+Mona"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}