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“I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.”

Mind Religion Clear Scales Distinction Comprehension

Author:Freeman Dyson

“Healing is the result of clear thinking.”

Thinking Results Healing Clear Health Clear Thinking

Book:The Science of the Mind

Source: The Science of the Mind

“The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?”

Reason Poor Clear Cry Pride Fortune Denied Scotland Scots Surly

Book:The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan

Source: The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan

“If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.”

Ifs Action Courses Goal Lines Clear Focus Plans Achieve Becoming Focused Planning Fixed Distraction Straight Lines Diversion Clear Goals

Author:Brian Tracy

“There has to be certainty and there has to be clarity. There can't be ambiguity, .. This has to be certain, clear in all respects from all the parties so nobody is in any doubt about what the future holds.”

Certain Party Clear Doubt Clarity Certainty Ambiguity

Author:Tony Blair

“I think all of our experience with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless it is clear to him that if diplomacy does not work, that the threatened reality of force is there.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Doe Reality Force President Chance Teach Clear Threatened Saddam Diplomacy Hussein

Author:Tony Blair

“A rain-tight roof, frugal living, a box of colors, and God's sunlight through clear windows keep the soul attuned and the body vigorous for one's daily work.”

Soul Body Clear Color Rain Window Boxes Sunlight Roof Vigorous Frugal Daily Work

Book:Albert P. Ryder: centenary exhibition ; Oct. 18 to Nov. 30, 1947

Source: Albert P. Ryder: centenary exhibition ; Oct. 18 to Nov. 30, 1947

“No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon.”

Sound Clear Laughter Salute

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.”

Moments Problem Life Is Clear Victory Defeat Vague Mixtures Ambiguity Ambiguous Unsolved Problems

Book:Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

“Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.”

Ifs Knows Desire Common Knowledge Clear Danger Development Demand Access Common Sense Reverence Humankind Unlimited Extinction

Author:Bill Joy

“We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted.”

States Clear Discovery

Author:Robert Henri

“So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.”

May Heaven Clear Grace Conscience Rivers Foam

Author:Dante Alighieri

“I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers.”

Years Firsts Self Character Bigs Views Clear Inner Self Disappearance Clear View Blinkers

Author:Paul Klee

“In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises.”

People Trying Children Soul Moments Would Be Given Nature Clear Dangerous Fine Promise Mood Backgrounds Landscape Old People Debtors

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings.”

Trying Clear Cutting Limits Degrees Explanation Misunderstanding Correctness Qualifications Few Words

Author:Gustave Courbet

“It certainly makes sense to expand the pulp industry in Indonesia, .. It's clear that it will be a very competitive exporter of pulp to the rest of the world, including China and India. So the interest by the Indonesian government is clearly to establish a really competitive plantation fiber base to support a globally attractive export industry.”

World Government Interest Support Clear Industry India Competition Including China Make Sense Attractive Indonesia Fiber Pulp Plantations China And India

Author:David Walker

“A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen shall not be infringed upon by anti-gun public officials.”

Needs Law Clear Rights Gun Constitution Officials Guarantees Owners Abiding Guarantees That Sportsman Gun Owners Public Officials Anti Gun

Author:Charlton Heston

“Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.”

Thinking Acting Clear Easier Consistently Fuzzy Clear Thinking

Author:Steve Pavlina

“We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.”

Force Gone Clear Train Obligation Conditional Bosnians

Author:Warren Christopher

“One thing that has become clear over the last several days is that we no longer have 135 choices to make. It's really one choice likely to emerge from question number two, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and that leaves the voters with a clear choice. They can retain Gray Davis as governor, or they can elect Arnold Schwarzenegger and his crew from Pete Wilson to run the governor's office.”

Two Running Lasts Choices Numbers Clear One Thing Office Voters Gray Governors Crew Wilson Schwarzenegger

Author:Gray Davis

“The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.”

Thinking May Two Philosophy Fiction Clear Cutting Boundaries

Author:Ken Follett

“What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.”

Needs Problem Lines Clear Depends Solutions Draws Intrigue

Book:Fact, Fiction, and Forecast

Source: Fact, Fiction, and Forecast

“If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.”

Ifs Left Given Understanding Clear Ready Understood Refuse Explanation Tolerate

Book:Fact, Fiction, and Forecast

Source: Fact, Fiction, and Forecast

“To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must especially be removed to clear the way for something else.”

Way Might Form Desire Clear Strategy Intimate Arbitrary Incomplete Distortion

Author:Philip Guston

“The continued increase in many crime indicators and the fact that the overall crime rate has not seen a marked decrease while the Liberals have been in power is a clear indication that the Liberal approach to combating crime, as on so many other issues, has failed.”

Has Beens Facts Issues Clear Crime Approach Increase Rate Indication Decrease Indicators Crime Rates

Author:Stephen Harper

“The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made the film [Takeshis'], I realized it was about this feeling of vague disquiet in Japan and in the rest of the world, a feeling that is gaining on us, getting less vague.”

World Made Feelings Today Film Clear I Realized Japan Vague Ambiguity Ambiguous

Author:Takeshi Kitano

“The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.”

Way Humans Spirit Force Clear Abstract Human Spirit Way Forward

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“We wanted to hear from viewers about why they watch or participate in call-ins on C-SPAN, ... Viewers of all ages and walks of life wrote to us, including actresses, stand-up comics, parents and students. What's clear after reading the entries is the impact that call-ins have had on the political conversation on the network.”

Age Wanted Political Reading Parent Walks Watches Clear Students Conversation Impact Including Actresses Participation Viewers Entry Walks Of Life

Author:Brian Lamb

“Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read their medical records, access their library accounts or otherwise invade their personal lives, with no oversight or accountability. Law-abiding Americans also deserve to know that when law enforcement can show an impartial judge clear evidence of criminal activity or a threat to national security, swift and decisive action will be taken to protect the public. That is the balance we must achieve.”

“A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.”

“With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.”

Community Clear Violence Messages International Gender Adoption Declaration Violence Against Women Elimination International Community Stop Violence Against Women

Author:Jenny Shipley

“Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.”

Bigs Eye Courses Clear Fate Pride Shots Red Boxes Studios Wide Storytelling Censorship Avoided Covering

Author:Todd Solondz

“In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone to respond to it.”

Rooms Clear Position Ambiguity

Author:David Trimble

“It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.”

Persons Friendship Clear Good Relationship

Author:Byron Katie

“Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.”

World Needs Mind Results Clear Health Heal Healed Katie Clear Minds

Book:A Thousand Names For Joy: How To Live In Harmony With The Way Things Are

Source: A Thousand Names For Joy: How To Live In Harmony With The Way Things Are

“There's nothing worse than people who are confused when deciding about something, so hopefully we can clear up any questions folks have. I know a lot of people are confused as to what the options are for White County so if nothing else, we will try to explain the scenario.”

People Ifs Knows Trying White Clear Folks Confusion Hopefully Confused Scenarios County

Author:Steve Burton

“We've made clear our view, which is we support the Russian proposal. It's within the context of the EU diplomacy aimed at getting Iran to re-suspend its enrichment activities and return to negotiations.”

Made Views Support Clear Return Activity Iran Negotiation Diplomacy Proposal Enrichment

Author:Joseph Adam Ereli

“It is in the early morning hour that the unseen is seen, and that the far-off beauty and glory, vanquishing all their vagueness, move down upon us till they stand clear as crystal close over against the soul.”

Soul Moving Hours Morning Clear Glory Isolation Unseen Crystals Early Morning Beautiful Morning Vagueness Waking Up Every Morning

Author:Sarah Smiley

“There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently from others, he does not fully appreciate the rules and conventions of symbolic realms; his adventurousness holds little significance. In contrast, the adult artist is fully cognizant of the norms embraced by others; his willingness, his compulsion, to reject convention is purchased, at the very least, with full knowledge of what he is doing and often at considerable psychic cost to himself.”

Source: Art, mind, and brain: a cognitive approach to creativity

“I like to think that there is a clear majority of people who's be supportive of the idea, It does save the existing industry. It does provide hundreds of millions of dollars for the Commonwealth.”

People Thinking Doe Ideas Millions Clear Industry Majority Dollars Supportive Commonwealth

Author:Steven Morrissey

“It's abundantly clear that we already have extraterrestrials living among us, and people are stepping forward who can communicate with them.”

People Clear Communicate

Author:Sylvia Browne

“It is clear that no one will achieve any kind of objective through the force of violence, and that no one will make Spaniards yield to threats of guns, whoever may be holding them”

Kind May Force Clear Violence Achieve Gun Threat Objectives Yield Spaniards

Author:Jose Maria Aznar

“The more you start prohibiting donors, the more you are going to have less blood in the supply. It's still not clear you can get it from blood transfusions.”

Stills Clear Blood Donors Blood Transfusion

Author:Arthur Caplan

“It's abundantly clear by now that no DRM system can stop serious pirates. A DRM system that stops serious pirates, and simultaneously gives broad leeway to ordinary users, is even harder to imagine.”

Giving Clear Imagine Serious Ordinary Harder Broads Users Pirate Drm

Author:Edward Felten

“Let's just be clear here. The vice president of the United States accidentally shoots a man, and he feels that it's appropriate for a ranch owner who witnessed this to tell the local Corpus Christi newspaper and not the White House press corps at large, or notify the public in a national way.”

Men Way Feels States House President White United United States Clear Presses Vices Newspapers Locals Appropriate Owners White House Vice President Corpus Notify

Author:David Gregory

“The evidence is there and it is clear. We want the people to be held accountable. Everybody who played a role in the death of Martin Anderson, we want them to be held accountable.”

People Want Roles Clear Evidence

Author:Benjamin Crump

“But there are a couple of places where it is clear to me that there should be no ambiguity of corporate responsibility - the environment and civil rights, .. As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.”

Should Desire Responsibility Clear Environment Rights Couple Obligation Civil Rights Corporate Corporations Fairness Ambiguity Unanimity Corporate Responsibility

Author:Leo Hindery

“The message we have internalized is clear - we are what we do and what we own, not what we are inside ourselves. Where it counts!”

Clear Messages

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.”

War Matter Differences Clear Civilization Terrorism Meaningful Civil War Insurgency

Author:Anthony H. Cordesman

“Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear.”

Natural Numbers Clear Mathematics Mathematical Multiplication

Author:L. E. J. Brouwer

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