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- Nov 07, 2020
Direct Contact Quotes
On closeness, disease, and honest connection.
These direct contact quotes mostly come from public health - malaria eliminated in the U.S. so thoroughly that most people never encounter it, and Ebola outbreaks contained through careful isolation strategies.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to malaria elimination efforts in United States in the 1940s, most people in the U.S. today have never had any direct contact with the disease, and most doctors have never seen a case. That success means it's easy to have a relaxed attitude about protecting ourselves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.
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While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing with kids is an adventure. It seems like someone always has the flu or pink-eye. I mean, you don't even have to be in direct contact with anyone to get pink-eye. But for parents who write, flexibility becomes essential, and as long as I have a pad of paper and a pen, I can write anywhere. Starbucks is fine.
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- Nov 07, 2020