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“See beauty in those unexpected places. (she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.) See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience. (she steered clear of the traffic jam and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.) She embraces the undeclared possibility in what seems like just another ordinary day. (her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)”

“Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems.”

Seems Clear Wide Awake

Author:Katy Perry

“Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.”

Seems Reading Sleep Clear Wife Newspapers Right Place Sleeping With Someone

Book:Stepping Westward

Source: Stepping Westward

“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.”

Long States Seems Interest Clear Military Promise Keep The Faith

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.”

World Mean Seems Lasts Natural Clear Environmental Obvious Our Love Natural World

Book:Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader

Source: Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader

“It seems increasingly dogs are attacking humans in response to their slavery... AND, wildlife in captivity are also attacking their enslavers AND the public... Their messages are loud and clear: LET US OUT AND LEAVE US ALONE!!!”

Humans Seems Animal Clear Dog Messages Slavery Response Loud Animal Rights Attacking Wildlife Captivity

Author:Adela Popescu

“To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.”

People Way Seems Democracy Clear Defeat Edges Rational Conclusion Yield Pessimism Realistic Reporters Honorable Pledge Unreasonable Stalemate

Author:Walter Cronkite

“After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver, and the moonbeams play over the grassy stretches of the plateaus...The Bad Lands seem to be stranger and wilder than ever, the silvery rays turning the country into a kind of grim fairyland.”

Kind Country Play Seems Running Faces Clear Land Rivers Stranger Rays Moonlight Grim Gleam Wilder Nightfall Moonbeams Plateaus

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The one affectation I have forced on the publisher... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.”

Knows Writing Use Seems Clear Letters Mark Scripts Sentences Foolish Devices Spells Publishers Confusing Printed Punctuation Punctuation Marks

Author:Andy Rooney

“It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored by the law and treated as indifferent by public opinion. It is only through children that relations cease to be a purely private matter.”

Children Matter Seems Law Opinion Clear Ought Relation Cease Treated Indifferent Ignored Public Opinion Involving

Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography

“If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble... But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.”

People Ifs Feels Humans Wells May Long Problem Seems Today House Clear Tomorrow Selflessness Furniture Tangled Smartness

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.”

Long Moments Seems Hours Love Is Struggle Clear Victory Tests Defeat Conviction Firm Reasoning Iron Gates Resolution Irrevocable Sophistry After Hours

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state -- admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological -- in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.”

Seems Language Clear Areas Metaphor Surrender Flexibility Precision

Author:Northrop Frye

“I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real debate is whether such torture should take place outside of our legal system or within it. The answer to this seems clear: If we are to have torture, it should be authorized by the law.”

Ifs Should Real Seems Law Answers Situation Clear Doubt Authority Debate Arise Torture No Doubt Bombs Law Enforcement Enforcement Legal System

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“The very word "change" has changed. When I was young--and not just because I was young--we looked forward with confident impatience to change. Planned, controlled, beneficent change would continue to clear slums, sweep up the remains of empire, raise living and educational standards, tidy away--firmly but kindly--the last aboriginals who still raved about martial glory or the pride of wealth. Now, as it seems to me, change is set almost exclusively in the minor key, change seen overwhelmingly as loss.”

Stills Seems Lasts Young Change Wealth Loss Clear Changed Pride Keys Glory Standards Raises Remains Educational Empires Controlled Minors Impatience Tidy Slums Aboriginal

Book:Games with Shadows

Source: Games with Shadows

“Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose?”

Source: No Contest: The Case Against Competition

“Well, I don't ever leave out details, in that I don't come up with information or description which I don't then use. I only ever come up with what seems to me absolutely essential to make the story work. I'm not usually an overwriter. As I revise, it's usually a matter of adding in as much vivid details as seem necessary to make the story come clear without slowing down the momentum of the story.”

Wells Matter Stories Use Seems Clear Information Essentials Come Up Details Description Slow Down Vivid Momentum Slowing

Author:Kelly Link

“More attention should have been given to the fundamental transformation which took place during Queen Victoria's reign, from ruling sovereign to constitutional monarch. Again, gender mattered. If Albert had lived, it seems clear that he would have resisted that development much more tenaciously, which the gradual emasculation (and feminization) of monarchy was probably more easily accomplished when a woman was on the throne.”

“It is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom it would seem meant to benefit, is directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and would introduce confusion and disorder into the commonweal. The first and most fundamental principle, therefore, if one would undertake to alleviate the condition of the masses, must be the inviolability of private property.”

Source: A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII

“The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be.”

Seems Would Be Lying Clear Shadow Uncertainty

Author:Faith Baldwin

“[After World War II:] By now we are used to the rubble, which they clear up religiously and indefatigably. What a determination to get on top again! One could admire it, if one would not be afraid that somewhere lurks another Hitler. But you can't seem to find a single Nazi in Germany! Nobody was one! It was all a dream!”

Ifs World War Dream Seems Used Clear Determination Admire War Of The Worlds Germany World War Ii World War I Nazi Rubble

Author:Lotte Lenya

“It is undeniable that others and the larger world, so beleaguered at this moment in history, need everything that we have to give. But what to give is the problem. It seems finally clear that we cannot find out what to do simply by thinking about it. We need to gain our inspiration and our direction from much deeper sources.”

Thinking World Needs Giving Moments Problem Inspiration Seems History Clear Source Gains Deeper

Book:Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body

Source: Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body

“The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.”

Ifs Seems Earth Growth Economy Clear Patterns Speed Consumption Global Economy Collision

Book:The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability

Source: The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability

“But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct.”

Kind Soul Seems Clear Subjects Eternal Obvious Intellect Faculty Remarks Contemplative

Author:Aristotle

“Harmonizing religion and science makes you seem like an open-minded and reasonable person, while asserting their incompatibility makes enemies and brands you as “militant.” The reason is clear: religion occupies a privileged place in our society. Attacking it is off-limits, although going after other supernatural or paranormal beliefs like ESP, homeopathy, or political worldviews is not. Accommodationism is not meant to defend science, which can stand on its own, but to show that in some way religion can still make credible claims about the world.”

“The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.”

Way Seems Life Is Animal Moral Clear Ethics Claims Strive Extraordinary Behave Meaning Of Life Organized Genes Living Things Organized Religion Animals In Nature

Author:Bill Nye

“I hear people everywhere saying that the trouble with our time is that we have no great leaders any more. If we look back we always had them. But to me it seems there is a very profound reason why there are no great leaders any more. It is because they are no longer needed. The message is clear. You no longer want to be led from the outside. Every man must be his own leader. He now knows enough not to follow other people. He must follow the light that's within himself, and through this light he will create a new community.”

People Ifs Knows Men Want Looks Reason Enough Light Seems Community Leader Clear Trouble Needed Messages Profound Every Man Reason Why Our Time Great Leader

Author:Laurens van der Post

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.”

Knows Want Trying Seems Water Clear Bottom Crowds Obscure Profundity

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Recognition for a job well done is high on the list of motivating influences for all people; more important in many instances than compensation itself. When someone is promoted, a promotion that everyone could see coming because of an excellent record, the entire department is stimulated. For it is clear, then, that promotions are based on merit. A promotion that seems to come out of the blue, which is always the case when no one knows what the next fellow is doing, causes nothing but resentment and a further weakening of the will to work.”

“Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.”

May Seems Clear Concepts Range

Author:Werner Heisenberg

“I'm a - I'm a, um, a godmother which is just, that's fun to be a godmother, she is so precious, she's the light of my life, she's two... or five or something, and she's, uh... I don't know, I've never seen her - the pictures are precious, she just seems so, y'know... She lives clear across town, I don't have that kind of time, but, um... Well, I send money and stuff, it's not like I don't have a connection...”

Knows Wells Kind Two Humor Light Seems Funny Fun Stuff Clear Five Connections Towns Godmother Light Of My Life

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.”

Problem Seems Left Clear Generations Climate Climate Change Our Future Future Generation

Author:Pope Francis

“From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real Essences of Bodies; but yet plainly discover to us the Being of a GOD, and the Knowledge of our selves, enough to lead us into a full and clear discovery of our Duty, and great Concernment, it will become us, as rational Creatures, to imploy those Faculties we have about what they are most adapted to, and follow the direction of Nature, where it seems to point us out the way.”

Way Real Self Enough God Body Seems Science Knowledge Clear Duty Creatures Discovery Essence Obvious Rational Internals Faculty Penetrate Adapted

Book:An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)

Source: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)

“In your system of reality you are learning what mental energy is, and how to use it. You do this by constantly transforming your thought and emotions into physical form. You are supposed to get a clear picture of your inner development by perceiving the exterior environment. What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event independent from you, is instead the materialization of your own inner emotions, energy, and mental environment.”

Use Reality Seems Form Energy Emotion Clear Environment Events Development Perception Independent Objectives Concrete Transforming Exterior Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Seth

“Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it's like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn't exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day's work and always brings a smile to your face.”

Love Long Two Helping Seems Faces Young Memories Clear Childhood Laughter Phones Brilliant Your Children Colour Daily Life Your Face Vivid Brighter Phone Calls Reggae Long Day

Author:Bob Marley

“The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long run, serve their shareholders best. Companies do, infact, do well by doing good.”

Way Wells Long Seems Running Company Creative Clear Evidence Thoughtful Long Runs Doing Good Shareholders Best Company

Author:Norman Lear

“Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less privileged ancestors were? The answer seems clear: while humankind collectively has increased its material powers a thousandfold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience.”

Seems Term Answers Clear Progress Materials Miracle Despite Ancestor Humankind Helpless Privileged Improving Facing Life

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first as erroneous, bad, or foolish. Later it may be seen as obvious, something self-evident to all. Only still later does it receive its final evaluation as a creative contribution. It seems clear no contemporary mortal can satisfactorily evaluate a creative product at the time it is formed, and this statement is increasingly true the greater the novelty of the creation.”

“Developing the capacity for clear light dreams is similar to developing the capacity of abiding in the non-dual presence of rigpa during the day. In the beginning, rigpa and thought seem different, so that in the experience of rigpa there is no thought, and if thought arises we are distracted and lose rigpa. But when stabliity in rigpa is developed, thought simply arises and dissolves without in the least obscuring rigpa; the practitioner remains in non-dual awareness.”

Ifs Different Dream Light Seems Loses Clear Awareness Capacity Remains Arise Developing Distracted Abiding

Book:The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

Source: The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

“If some of these answers seem radical or far-fetched today, then I say wait until tomorrow. Soon it will be abundantly clear that it is business as usual that is utopian, whereas creating something very new and different is a practical necessity.”

Ifs Different Seems Today Waiting Answers Clear Tomorrow Creating Practicals Radical Usual Utopian Creating Something

Author:James Gustave Speth

“Many spiritual seekers who say their wish is to awaken don't actually want what they believe they do. This becomes clear sometimes at the approach to the brink of what feels like a void, where the obliteration of the egoic self seems imminent. With a shocked recognition of what is being asked, the person will recoil. The scale of the loss-the dissolution of the familiar self-is beyond what was bargained for.”

Want Feels Believe Persons Self Sometimes Seems Spiritual Wish Loss Clear Approach Scales Familiar Recognition Void Shocked Seekers Dissolution Recoil

Book:The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is

Source: The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is

“As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his "eternal appetite" by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual "walk" with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.”

Firsts Humans Children Seems Spiritual Individual Parent Human Beings Walks Views Steps Clear Imagine Eternal Appetite First Steps Steps Forward Eagerness

Book:Grace Notes

Source: Grace Notes

“It's only after you get down into the technical weeds - and they are admittedly rather weedy - that it becomes clear that this is much harder than it seems and not something we're going to be able to solve.”

Seems Able Clear Harder Solve Weed

Author:Matt Blaze

“It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.”

Ifs Made Seems Clear Land Clouds Made It Pounds Currency Parliament Suggesting Abolition Cuckoos Sterling

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it is also clear that photography is too multiple, too useful to other discourses, ever to be wholly contained within traditional definitions of art.”

Art Seems Clear Environment Photography Definitions Invention Traditional Visuals Multiple Discourse Saturated Visual Images

Book:On the Museum's Ruins

Source: On the Museum's Ruins

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