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“When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.”

Heart Matter Purpose Individual Sides Approach Contact Shock Dread Electric Both Sides Contention Electric Shock

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

“The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.”

Source: The Forsyte Saga, Complete: England Literature

“[It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals.”

Wells Two Facts Individual Known Contact Well Known Selected Overlapping

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.”

Humans Literature Individual Loss Areas Rate Invention Contact Faster Elsewhere Competing Human Inventions

Author:Jared Diamond

“Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.”

Art Today Form Individual Loss Music Groups Jazz Contact

Author:Dave Brubeck

“... work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.”