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“When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?”

Heart Lying Passion Clear My Heart Mouths Carried Away

“We made love. How pedestrian the words look-trite, worn, practically featureless with use-but how can one better describe that which happens when it happens? That creation? That magic blending? I might say we became figures in a mesmerized dance before the rocking talisman of the moon, starting slow, so slow... a pair of feathers drifting through clear liquid substance of sky... gradually accelerating, faster and faster and finally into photon existence of pure light... as my whole straining body burst like fluid electricity into hers.”

“That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so veryfew, is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though they are surrounded with such clear manifestations of the Deity, are yet so little affected by them, that they seem as it were blinded with excess of light.”

Source: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

“Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.”

“As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.”

Ideas Clear Floating Facets

Author:Brian Eno

“It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.”

Ifs Clear Blame Majority Israel France Britain Iran Resolution Middle East Crystals Earthquakes Veto

Author:Amos Oz

“When words & manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear & your obstructions will join you or disappear.”

Space Clear Disappear Manners Obstruction

Author:Ntozake Shange

“Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, as in His, there is no hope.”

Clear Absence Acceptable No Hope

Author:Virgilia Peterson

“Nothing that has ever been thought and said with a clear mind and pure ethical strength is totally in vain; even if it comes froma weak hand and is imperfectly formed, it inspires the ethical spirit to constantly renewed creation.”

Ifs Inspirational Mind Said Hands Spirit Clear Creation Inspire Pure Weak Vain Ethical Clear Minds

Author:Stefan Zweig

“It is what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.”

World Hard Moving Dark Knowledge Forever Clear Imagine Sea Cold Mouths Historical Breasts Salt Symbolism

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.”

Body Stars Common Clear Sky Pulse Twinkling Twinkling Stars

Book:FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel

Source: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel

“Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.”

Kind Values Difficult Rooms Clear Letting Go Paper Daughter Wander My Daughter Nuts Sentimental Papers Clutter Refreshing Authentic Happiness Sifting Sentimental Value

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.”

Way Christian Religious Clear Treats Threat Christian Life Reporters Distasteful American Way Of Life

Author:Robert Bork

“... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a deep-seated yearning for stable values... When conservative Christian groups talk of failures in our educational system, the erosion of our moral standards, and the waste of young lives, they are addressing real and legitimate concerns... Among secularists, the aversion toward discussion of moral values, let alone religion, can reach absurd extremes.”

“There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.”

Thinking Christian Political Nations Religious Clear Media Mainstream Political Life

Author:Erwin W. Lutzer

“It is important for people to recognize that those who are working for the dissolution of our society have a spiritual agenda. They are not merely attempting to dismantle the historic cultural values of this nation and move us toward a homogenized world. They also want to destroy Christianity and Bible-based religion. It is a clear part of their agenda and they have already moved a long way in that direction.”

People World Way Want Long Important Christian Spiritual Moving Values Nations Religious Christianity Clear Moved Our Society Agendas Historic Long Way Attempting Dissolution

Author:Pat Robertson

“The signs of the antichrist spirit are clear. They emerge in this fashion: A significant minority then an actual majority, of the people in a society begin to throw off the restraints of history, then the restraints of written law, then accepted standards of morality, then established religion, and, finally God Himself.”

People Christian Law Spirit Religious Clear Written Fashion Morality Standards Majority Accepted Significant Minorities Restraint Antichrist

Book:The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1

Source: The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1

“Are public school textbooks biased? Are they censored? The answer to both is yes. And the nature of the bias is clear: Religion, traditional family values, and conservative political and economic positions have been reliably excluded from children's textbooks.”

“It's really hard because you only have that split-second to determine what to do. It's crazy. I try my best to use clear judgment and make clear decisions, but a lot of those collisions are unavoidable. You're either going to let them catch it and take a step to see what's going on, or there's going to be a collision.”

Trying Hard Use Decision Steps Clear Player Crazy Judgment Determine Splits Collision Tackling Nfl Players

Author:Adrian Wilson

“It is clear that everybody interested in science must be interested in world 3 objects. A physical scientist, to start with, may be interested mainly in world 1 objects--say crystals and X-rays. But very soon he must realize how much depends on our interpretation of the facts, that is, on our theories, and so on world 3 objects. Similarly, a historian of science, or a philosopher interested in science must be largely a student of world 3 objects.”

World May Facts Language Realizing Clear Objects Students Theory Depends Scientist Philosopher Interpretation Historian Rays Crystals Subjectivity

Book:Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography

Source: Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography

“Taking the child's point of view demands good will, time, and effort on the part of parents. The child is the clear beneficiary. Parents who make the effort to understand their children's point of view are likely to treat children fairly and in an age-appropriate manner.”

Children Age Parent Views Effort Clear Demand Treats Point Of View Appropriate Good Will Beneficiaries

Book:Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance

Source: Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance

“Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it isbound to be a rotten failure in any but a physical sense. Even through it is altruism, socialism means materialism. You can guarantee the things of the body to every one, but you cannot guarantee the things of the spirit to every one; you can guarantee only that the opportunity to seek them shall not be denied to any one who chooses to seek them.”

Men Mean Body Spirit Opportunity Successful Clear Depends Socialism Guarantees Materialism Denied Altruism Rotten

Author:Katharine Fullerton Gerould

“It is clear that the American people are weary of war. However, Assad gassing his own people is an issue of our national security, regional stability and global security.”

People War Politics Justice Democracy Issues Clear Violence Security Policy Ethics Human Rights Ideology Stability Foreign Policy Weary National Security Assad

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things used tobe." But that doesn't mean the malaise and anxiety people feel about modern families are delusions, that everything would be fine if we would only realize that the past was not all it's cracked up to be. . . . Even if things were not always right in families of the past, it seems clear that some things have newly gone wrong.”

People Ifs Way Feels Mean Seems Would Be Past Used Realizing Gone Clear Modern Fine Anxiety Crisis Notion Delusion Nostalgic Cracked Flux Malaise Modern Family

Author:Stephanie Coontz

“Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.”

People Wisdom Action Suffering Moral Clear Empathy Immoral Moral Action

Author:David Brooks

“When you look at what is happening to our world-and it is hard to look at what's happening to our water, our air, our trees, our fellow species-it becomes clear that unless you have some roots in a spiritual practice that holds life sacred and encourages joyful communion with all your fellow beings, facing the enormous challenges ahead becomes nearly impossible.”

World Looks Hard Spiritual Water Challenges Practice Clear Impossible Air Tree Happenings Roots Fellows Sacred Species Enormous Our World Joyful Communion Spiritual Practice

Book:Greening of the Self

Source: Greening of the Self

“There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.”

Humans Light Truth Values Ability Clear Quiet Reflection Capacity Affection Clarity Permanent Cant Quiet Reflection

Book:Readings from Huxley

Source: Readings from Huxley

“I can't be a part of the problem. I hate the idea of a label just as much as anyone else but I'm with who I'm with, I love who I love and I'm if not a better actress than I was yesterday and my personal life should have no effect on that. I think that the injustice of people staying in the closet is more than I can bear with a clear conscience and I couldn't sleep at night if I was a part of that problem, if I was part of the lies.”

“Uncontainable is a love story. Kip and Sharon's love for each other, their precious family, their business journey of joy and, most of all, their pure and uncontainable love for their employees and their families is clear and happy proof that the future of business is building love cultures. Oh, and when you have love on the inside customers shower uncontainable love back at ya from the outside. Love on brother!”

Stories Joy Culture Clear Journey Building Brother Pure Customers Proof Love Story Employee Showers Sharon

Author:Roy Spence

“It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.”

Important School Roles Clear Library Harvard

Author:Robert Darnton

“There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them without literature. For they would then relapse into a dreary and ultimately dangerous state of half-education, in which they would be easily satisfied by crude semi-pictorial approximations of the strip cartoon and by the abundant supply of degenerate literature which destroys, rather than promotes, a capacity to face the problems of the world with skill and courage”

“But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.”

Should Believe Party Clear Position Should Have Don't Believe Sexuality Campaigns Abortion Homosexuality

Author:Stephen Harper

“I do think the most important thing we need in leadership in our country, not just in the presidency but in the United States Senate, are people that have a clear vision of what the role of government should be in our lives and what the role of America should be in the world.”

“It's a tough path to citizenship. You've got to pay back taxes. You've got to learn English. You've got to have a clear record. You've got to get to the back of the line behind other people who have come here legally or even waiting legally.”

People Waiting Lines Pay Behinds Path Clear Records Taxes Tough Citizenship

Author:John McCain

“Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled.”

People Long Stills War Clear Long Time Racism Aspect Uncomfortable Civil War Long Time Ago

Author:Randy Newman

“I'm not a specialist in the science but I have followed it fairly closely and it seems to me that there is among the experts a clear consensus that potential climate change is something to worry about.”

Seems Worry Clear Climate Climate Change Experts Consensus Specialists

Author:Martin Rees

“It becomes pretty crystal clear once you watch that first assembly [movie cut] the things that are just grinding it to a halt, so to speak, or slowing it down, or getting in the way, yeah.”

Way Firsts Speak Watches Clear Cutting Yeah Crystals Assembly Halt Slowing

Author:Todd Phillips

“Sometimes I feel very guilty, so I don't know if I am a clear example of a perfect father, because sometimes I also just punish myself, saying I'm not doing probably the right thing at this particular moment. It's a secret.”

Ifs Knows Feels Sometimes Moments Father Perfect Secret Clear Example Particular Guilty Right Thing Perfect Father

Author:Antonio Banderas

“I learned a lot, in terms of inspiring people. It became very clear to me, very early on, that directing a movie was a lot like being in a theater company.”

People Term Company Clear Theater

Author:Matthew Lillard

“The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.”

Should Facts Views Clear Groups Activity Concepts Built Definitions Defined Describing Proceeding

Book:General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology

Source: General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology

“The only place we can find a clear, unmistakable message is in the Word of God, which we call the Bible.”

Clear Messages Word Of God

Author:Billy Graham

“Moments ago, the U.S. Senate decided to do the unthinkable about gun violence - nothing at all. Over two years ago, when I was shot point-blank in the head, the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. Four months ago, 20 first-graders lost their lives in a brutal attack on their school, and the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. It's clear to me that if members of the U.S. Senate refuse to change the laws to reduce gun violence, then we need to change the members of the U.S. Senate.”

“To reach our full potential we must first clear the mind and be present in the flow of life current.”

Mind Firsts Clear Flow Currents Full Potential

Author:Justin Nozuka

“You know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a really clear day, looking down from many miles up, you can see the little baseball diamonds everywhere? And every time I see a baseball diamond my heart goes out to it. And I think somewhere down there- I don't see any houses, I can hardly see any roads- but I know that people down there are playing the game we all love.”

People Thinking Knows Heart Littles I Can Games House Know How Clear My Heart Baseball Miles Diamond Coast Looking Down Clear Day

Author:Donald Hall

“Company names without clear pronunciation or spelling won't last.”

Lasts Names Company Clear Spelling Pronunciation

Author:David Rusenko

“I'm pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin. My grandfather is 80 but doesn't look a day over 50. And we all love the sun, too, so blessed is an understatement!”

Looks Whole Sun Clear Skins Blessed Grandfather My Grandfather Whole Family Capes Understatement Over 50

Author:Amber Rose

“Van Gogh, among others, believed in the religion of art, which, whatever else it involved, made it clear that art is more than the sum of its material characteristics and not simply a reflection of everyday life.”

Art Made Clear Materials Involved Reflection Art Is Everyday Made It Characteristics Everyday Life Vans

Author:Donald Kuspit

“You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing.”

Writing Self Process Clear Influence Higher Intention Higher Self Self Will

Author:Genevieve

“Regardless of what the object of design is, humans need design. For anything humans use in their day to day life, they need design and it is a clear and concrete proof of the fundamental human right to live.”

Needs Humans Use Clear Design Objects Fundamentals Proof Concrete Day To Day Day Life Day To Day Life

Author:Kenji Ekuan

“The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material to present each of his protagonists in a convincing, respectful, but unsparing way. Even more valuable, he has used the interactions and tensions between Paul Nitze and George Kennan to bring much of American 20th century foreign policy to life, with human richness ever present but with the big issues clear in all their complexity.”

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