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“Over the years I've tried to be clear about the things that are important in life, the things that matter, and I've tried to pursue them, and, I've had a certain sense of 'stickability,' hanging in there, and I suppose that's me.”

Years Important Matter Certain Clear Pursue Things That Matter

Author:Peter Hollingworth

“Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.”

Knows Girl Hours Clear Rational Know Me Analytics Papa

Author:Anna Freud

“My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.”

Children Today Father Clear Direct Managers Acquire Teens Consumption Success In Life Pakistan Equations Going To Work Items Measurement Ibm

Author:Tino Sehgal

“There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action.”

People Way Needs Giving Should Ideas Government Able Action Used Powerful Clear Information Website

Author:Eli Pariser

“It feels great to have your own views reflected back to you, and you feel so right, but actually it's very dangerous. Because to make good decisions, you need to have a clear view of what all the options are.”

Needs Feels Decision Views Clear Dangerous Good Decision Clear View

Author:Eli Pariser

“Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so ready for our rebellious phase we can't help but feel it's safe, contained. It will turn out all right, despite the risk, snug in the shell of rebellion narrative. Rebellion narrative, does that make sense? It was appropriate to do, so we did it.”

People Knows Feels Doe Helping Young Turns Sex Clear Risk Generations Ready Safe Despite Narrative Make Sense Motive Appropriate Rebellion Phases Shells Rebellious Textbooks

Author:Daniel Handler

“Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape.”

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Author:Laird Barron

“The difference between fear and panic is knowing what to do. If you have a reliable, effective solution then fear is an asset. You know what to do and fear just makes you do it faster. On the other hand, if you don't know what to do - or don't trust what you know - then you will freeze in terror, because you have no clear goal or way to get there. Fear helps, panic hinders. Fear is your savior, panic your nemesis.”

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Author:Marc MacYoung

“I just wanted to make it clear that I was saying that the possibility is there and I would've been fine with it, the network would have been fine with it, but we ultimately didn't do that. I can make it official - Daryl Dixon is actually straight.”

Has Beens I Can Wanted Clear Possibility Fine Officials

Author:Robert Kirkman

“Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.”

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Author:Walker Evans

“It is very clear from the historical record that without British help neither Wahhabism nor the House of Saud would be in existence today. Wahhabism is a British-inspired fundamentalist movement in Islam. Through its defense of the House of Saud, the US also supports Wahhabism directly and indirectly regardless of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Wahhabism is violent, right wing, ultra-conservative, rigid, extremist, reactionary, sexist, and intolerant.”

“The way you build trust with your people is by being forthright and clear with them from day one. You may think people are fooled when you tell them what they want to hear. They are not fooled.”

People Thinking Way Want May Clear Fooled

Author:Dick Costolo

“What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.”

Different Clear Planets Creating Fuel Fossils Fossil Fuel Burning Fossil Fuels

Author:James Hansen

“Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the use of force against an idea, to submit thought to an alien "other." But worst still, censorship destroys criticism, which is the essential ingredient of culture.”

Stills Ideas Use School Culture Force Teach Clear Worst Essentials Criticism Corruption Aliens Torture Mask Ingredients Censorship Cowardice Submit Use Of Force

Author:Pablo Antonio Cuadra

“I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am interested in hiding.”

Looks Ideas Wanted Mother Clear Honest Color Baby Being Honest Hiding Adoption

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there.”

Thinking Goal Clear Approach Entrepreneur Unwavering

Author:John Katzman

“Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.”

Knows Wells Doe Country Cities Clear One Thing Threat Western Population Terrorism Strikes Menace

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.”

People Ifs Shows Film Clear Stage Empty Editors Stink Manipulative

Author:D. B. Sweeney

“When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.”

Children Said Clear Mom My Mom Discussion Negotiation

Author:Yul Vazquez

“We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.”

Guy Rooms Clear Politician Prison Bad Guys Kinky

Author:Kinky Friedman

“So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.”

“At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.”

Trying Wanted School Clear Lucky Directors Adults Decided

Author:Stephen Daldry

“I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.”

Knows Ends Common Clear Mystery

Author:Beth Gibbons

“If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!”

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Author:Dana Hill

“Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Happens Film Choices Deals Careers Clear Balance

Author:Lukas Haas

“I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will always take place; it's unavoidable.”

Trying Clear Conscious Misunderstanding

Author:Jose Padilha

“A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thoughtwhat on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own.”

Wells Children Eye Earth Beautiful Hope Clear Curiosity Hope Love

Book:Stuart of Dunleath: a story of modern times

Source: Stuart of Dunleath: a story of modern times

“A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.”

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Author:E. B. White

“The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.”

“Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.”

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Author:Bill Frist

“It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.”

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Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Common standards ensure that every child across the country is getting the best possible education, no matter where a child lives or what their background is. The common standards will provide an accessible roadmap for schools, teachers, parents and students, with clear and realistic goals.”

Children Country Matter School Parent Goal Common Clear Teacher Students Standards Educational Backgrounds Realistic School Teachers Realistic Goals

Author:Roy Romer

“Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future workforce," said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. "With common standards and assessments, students, parents, and teachers will have a clear, consistent understanding of the skills necessary for students to succeed after high school and compete with peers across the state line and across the ocean.”

“In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear evidence that airpower has evolved into a force in war co-equal with land and sea power, decisive in its own right and worthy of the faith of its prophets.”

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Author:Carl Andrew Spaatz

“The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.”

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Author:J. Arthur Thomson

“But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.”

People Mind Looks Understanding Clear Meditation Distracted Clear Minds

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.”

Mind Natural Clear Meditation Imagine Sky Empty Calm Clouds Surface Disappear Lakes Stillness Imagine That Ripple

Author:Kathleen McDonald

“Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches with which the apostles held constant intercourse, and learn from them what is certain and clear in regard to the present question? For how should it be if the apostles themselves had not left us writings? Would it not be necessary, in that case, to follow the course of the tradition which they handed down to those to whom they did commit the Churches?”

“Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?”

“If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .”

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Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“The universe runs on a fundamental and oh-so-wonderful principle... when you get really clear and honest about what you want, everything in the universe conspires to help you get it.”

Want Helping Running Universe Principles Clear Wonderful Honest Positive Fundamentals Attraction What You Want Law Of Attraction Get Real

Book:You Can Have What You Want

Source: You Can Have What You Want

“Be clear about the purpose of money. Money is like health. It is necessary for survival but it is not what you live for.”

Inspirational Purpose Clear Survival

Book:Don't Hurry, be Happy!: 650 Smart Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy Life

Source: Don't Hurry, be Happy!: 650 Smart Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy Life

“Grace is goodness and respect given freely and unconditionally. A sense of divine love and protection bestowed on us when we need strength and renewal. Grace helps us know we are not alone and believe we are cared for and cherished. Grace is a drink of clear, clean water in the desert.”

Source: The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart

“Today, it is clear that Internet organizing is vital to our future success.”

Today Clear Internet Our Future Future Success

Author:Martin Frost

“I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice always."”

God Able Christian Religious Clear Pages Rejoice Verses Crystals

Book:To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

Source: To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

“Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing."”

God Christian Religious Vision Clear Praying Verses

Book:To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

Source: To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

“The last verse that became clear to my vision that day was this: "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God's in Christ Jesus for you."”

Giving God Christian Lasts Jesus Christ Religious Vision Clear Circumstances Gods Will Thanks Verses

Author:Mary C. Neal

“If you want to know what true art is: Go outside on a clear night, wait until it gets very, very dark, then look up! You will see no rules of composition, no evidence of superior technique. Yet, you will be staring into the very face of pure, unadulterated beauty and wonder. That is the unattainable Ideal for which I must constantly strive.”

Ifs Knows Want Looks Art Faces Night Waiting Dark Wonder Clear Pure Art Is Evidence Ideals Strive Technique Superiors Staring Look Up Composition Unattainable

Author:Derek R. Audette

“This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation. The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

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