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“By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with a writer who would refuse to discuss her work with her editors? What publication would continue to publish a writer who attacked it on TV? What publication would continue to publish a writer who lied about it - on TV and to a Washington Post reporter? ... It's true: Ann is fearless, in person and in her writing. But fearlessness isn't an excuse for crappy writing or crappier behavior.”

Writing Persons Earth Clear Tvs Behavior Refuse Excuse Scary Fearless Posts Editors Continuing Reporters Publish Lied Publication Fearlessness

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“And we can't discharge that moral responsibility by passing out contraceptives. Contraceptives have been circulating all over Uganda, and it is not clear how many people are using the things. The best contraceptive in this case is abstinence.”

People Has Beens Responsibility Moral Cases Clear Scary Passing Passings Abstinence Discharge Moral Responsibility Contraceptives Uganda Passing Out

Author:Eugene Rivers

“Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God.”

Ifs Lines Effort Cases Clear Impossible Waste Research Evidence Scientist Scary Brilliant Rejects Pointing

Author:Hugh Ross

“Scalia said the court had pretty much signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, adding: Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, or any other group, promoting their agenda through normal democratic means.”

Mean Said Clear Groups Normal Let Me Court Democratic Scary Agendas Homosexual Promoting

Author:Antonin Scalia

“It has become harder and harder in the United States to make films unhampered by outside influences. I've always been able to steer clear of that and keep the business people out of my hair completely.”

People States Able Film United United States Clear Influence Hair Harder Steers Outside Influences

Author:Woody Allen

“My secret for writing is going back to clarity. I'm very clear about what I want to accomplish-the goal-and then the next two are focus and concentration. And I've probably spent my whole life both practicing those two and teaching them. Focus. Focus on a single point and concentration. And concentrating on a single thing till it's done.”

Want Writing Two Done Whole Next Goal Secret Clear Focus Teaching Accomplish Whole Life Clarity Concentration Concentrating Focus And Concentration

Author:Brian Tracy

“I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that's amazing. But I never thought I'd be on that list. It's clear I was wrong. I'm on the list, at least temporarily.”

People Thinking Made Remember Clear Industry Computer Lists Wow Lots Of Money

Author:Bill Gates

“It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn.”

Ifs Needs Matter Hard Goal Poor Clear Achieve Our Family Clear Goals

Author:Brian Tracy

“I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.”

Thinking Want Looks Vision Clear Clear Vision

Author:Daniel Clowes

“People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it's just too much.”

People Long Facts Poor Known Clear Too Much Teacher Servant Contrast Supporter Nun

Author:Gloria Steinem

“The way I do things I usually always prefer to have a very clear strategy and be very focused. At the same time to be very rock solid, and crisp in execution.”

Way Clear Rocks Strategy Focused Execution Crisps

Author:Steve Ballmer

“The human being has enormous resources in the power to heal. And in those resources lie things that we ourselves need to clear or feel.”

Needs Feels Humans Lying Human Beings Clear Resources Heal Enormous

Author:Maya Tiwari

“You really look to understanding someone's psyche, and the choices that would best support them, and help to energetically open those areas of their being able to know that everything in life comes to us when our entire organism is clean and clear.”

Knows Looks Helping Able Choices Understanding Support Clear Areas Clean Organisms Understanding Someone

Author:Maya Tiwari

“Britain makes it absolutely, blindingly clear that it is liberal social welfare policies. And they have turned a good chunk of their native population into animals. They are absolute animals. They are not humans with free will. They eat, they screw, they drink.”

Humans Social Animal Clear Policy Drink Absolutes Population Welfare Britain Native Free Will Screws Chunks Social Welfare

Author:Ann Coulter

“I'm not into red carpet looks where it's clear the woman wanted to look like a pretty, pretty princess.”

Looks Wanted Clear Red Princess Carpet Red Carpet Women Want

Author:Mindy Kaling

“Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood--namely, the first principles; and, again, in the order of judgment, returns by analysis to first principles, in the light of which it examines what it has found. Now it is clear that rest and movement are not to be referred to different powers, but to one and the same.”

Firsts Humans Different Ends Reason Light Certain Order Found Understanding Principles Clear Movement Return Judgment Understood Discovery Possession Analysis Reasoning Inquiry Acquisition

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.”

People Doe Hands Reading Pleasure Clear Trouble Reader Lucky Assuming Attributes Superficial Precise Zeal Unlucky Unclear

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?”

Thinking Knows Men Mean Matter Clear Concern Cease Objectives Thyself Objectivity Know Thyself

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.”

Life Inspirational Mind Doe Art Important Helping Problem Change Worry Creative Clear Focus Solutions Illness Tension Solution To A Problem Creative Solutions

Author:Nhat Hanh

“If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.”

Ifs Way Want Might Clear Communication Buddhism Politician Buddhist Concrete Negotiation Reconciliation Restoring

Author:Nhat Hanh

“In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.”

World Ideas Clear Obscure

Book:Crome Yellow

Source: Crome Yellow

“They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.”

Reason Clear Enlightenment Blind Bigotry Zealot

Author:Moliere

“Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.”

Love Looks Eye Faces Lost Clear And Love Sight Mirrors Like Me Your Face

Book:A Shropshire Lad

Source: A Shropshire Lad

“Why should I seek for love or study it? It is of God and passes human wit; I study hatred with great diligence, For that's a passion in my own control, A sort of besom that can clear the soul Of everything that is not mind or sense.”

Should Mind Humans Soul Hate Passion My Own Study Clear Hatred Wit Should I Diligence

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other theory. His clear and wide ideas will for ever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.”

Thinking Has Beens Ideas Real Clear Modern Creation Theory Built Foundation Wide Physics Significance Conception Newton Relativity Theories Of Relativity

Author:Albert Einstein

“The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic.”

Knows States Age Lasts Life Is Spirit United United States Clear Constitution Mere Critics Lawyer Vehicle Documents Prescriptions Constitution Of The United States

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy...”

Love Said God Lord Clear Sky Lows God Love Stormy

Book:Steeple Bush

Source: Steeple Bush

“The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.”

Literature Fiction Clear Effects Sitting Importance Unity Productions Impression

Book:Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe

“Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.”

Writing Clear Absence Prose Exploration

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.”

Common Clear Military Factors Communism Civil War Gestures Bourgeois Romanticism

Author:Max Frisch

“I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!”

“But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?”

Ifs Should May States Universe House Strong Results Cities Clear Fields Endure Statements Consideration Division Disagreement Goodwill Enmity Animosity

Book:Cicero in twenty-nine volumes

Source: Cicero in twenty-nine volumes

“Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping.”

World Made War Hands Eye Turns Hours Sleep Clear Youth Caught War Of The Worlds World War I Matched Swimmer Clear Eyes

Author:Rupert Brooke

“I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.”

Made Two States Government Politics Clear Authority Solutions Thirds Made It Ireland Sovereignty Joints Unified Iron Lady Confederation

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“He, who, in view of its inconsistencies, says of human nature the same that, in view of its contrasts, is said of the divine nature, that it is past finding out, thereby evinces a better appreciation of it than he who, by always representing it in a clear light, leaves it to be inferred that he clearly knows all about it.”

Knows Humans Said Light Past Views Clear Human Nature Divine Findings Appreciation Contrast Representing Inconsistency Divine Nature

Book:The Confidence-man: His Masquerade

Source: The Confidence-man: His Masquerade

“So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet.”

Clear Cheat Conceit Nursery Sleet

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.”

People Knows Government Clear Demand Confusion Confused I Have Learned

Book:The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication

Source: The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication

“The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we start from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow.”

Feels Mind Real Speak Process Clear Involved Reflection Shadow Philosophical Obvious Passing Passings Analysis Definite Vague Precise Ambiguous Real Truth

Book:Russell's Logical atomism

Source: Russell's Logical atomism

“Repeating then is in every one, in every one their being and their feeling and their way of realising everything and every one comes out of them in repeating. More and more then every one comes to be clear to some one.”

Way Feelings Clear Speech Realising

Book:THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (Modern Classics Series): A History of a Family's Progress

Source: THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (Modern Classics Series): A History of a Family's Progress

“... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.”

Way Art Culture Clear Air Sky Land Wind Drink Lows Heavy Homeland

Book:How Writing Is Written

Source: How Writing Is Written

“If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.”

Ifs Dream Form Wish Friendship Clear Friends Judgment Your Dreams

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding.... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.”

Seems Race Clear Dog Amount Argument Horse Aliens Avoiding You Like It Homogeneity Infiltration Inbreeding

Author:Ezra Pound

“In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.”

Doe Evil Left Causes Sin Clear Conscience Paradise Leap Clear Conscience

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous, Is fold of untaught flower, is race of water, Is earth's most multiple, excited daughter; And those she has least use for see her best, Their paths grown craven and circuitous, Their visions mountain-clear, their needs immodest.”

Needs Use Earth Water Race Vision Path Clear Flower Mountain Spring Daughter Seasons Excited Multiple Folds

Book:The Less Deceived

Source: The Less Deceived

“Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most”

Reality Lasts Dark Darkness Clear

Book:Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays

Source: Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays

“The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind.”

Mind Doe Art Whole Light Night Literature Stars Sun Clear Moon Art Is Green Clarity Suggestions Obscurity Moon And Stars Stellar Sun Moon Sun Moon And Stars

Author:Samuel Beckett

“The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.”

Firsts Courses Levels Common Quality Clear Truth Is Logic Practicals Common Sense Logical Severe Metaphysical Epithet

Book:The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

Source: The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

“The difference between guilt and shame is very clear--in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A person feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong. We may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. We may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be.”

People Want Feels May Persons Different Feelings Wanted Lying Mother Differences Clear Theory Shame Guilt Guilty Ashamed Wrong Lied

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“There are few of us, if any, who don't walk the refiner's fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but for many quietly hidden and privately endured. Most of the heartache, pain, and suffering we would not choose today. But we did choose. We chose when we could see the complete plan. We chose when we had a clear vision of the Savior's rescue of us. And if our faith and understanding were as clear today as it was when we first made that choice, I believe we would choose again.”

“The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.”

Men Ends Winning Goal Clear He Man Labor Average Conception Application Mentality Definite

Author:William Howard Taft

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