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in isolation

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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in. Aldous Huxley

The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in isolation. They are systemic problems, which means that they are interconnected and interdependent. Fritjof Capra

Nothing can be settled in isolation. Every use of our resources is at the expense of an alternative use. John Maynard Keynes

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world. A. R. Ammons

If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins. John Bates Clark

To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable. Clive Barker

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