You are only as strong as your connections because there is no disconnected you.

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But for a historian, there are lots of disconnected facts you have to absorb before you can come up with something new.

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"There are a lot of disconnected devices that aren't tied to people, " O'Conner says.

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There are other reasons for feeling disconnected from what you do for a living.

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For those who truly want to be disconnected from reality, there's even six-display support provided it's all hooked up to a Mac Pro and a pair of three-output Radeon HD 5770 video cards.

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And, with the possible exception of Washington, there is no city in the country where self-importance is more disconnected from actual importance.

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The plaintiffs devoted a lengthy footnote (n. 6) in their proposed settlement explaining why their cy pres proposal was not disconnected from the misleading advertising claims, as the appeals court found in Kellogg (there, Kellogg products were to be donated to a food bank).

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