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67,316. The whole connections concept is a product of the technology. Because back before the technology you couldn’t have seen life that way, the way everything is connection, because back then it wasn’t. (Civilisation & Connection) James Burke, Connections III s3e1: Feedback, BBC 1997
68,161. We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. Herman Melville
68,162. When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. (Connection & Family) Albert Camus
68,163. Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe. (Connection & Life) Albert Schweitzer
68,164. In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
68,662. Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. (Creativity & Connection) Steve Jobs