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“There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.”

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Author:Desmond Tutu

“When you speak in other tongues, no one understands what you're saying, because you're speaking to God. It's a direct communication between your spirit and God. You're speaking the language that only He understands.”

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Book:How to Pray Effectively: Volume One: Understanding the Rules of Prayer for Different Situations and How to Apply Them for Your Desired Outcome

Source: How to Pray Effectively: Volume One: Understanding the Rules of Prayer for Different Situations and How to Apply Them for Your Desired Outcome

“Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth.”

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Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.”

Direct Fingers Contact Piano Strings

Author:Tommy Bolin

“The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it.”

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Author:Ezra Pound

“Given the choice of apathy or someone liberating mink, burning down a research torture-laboratory, or killing a vivisectionist or other DIRECT murderer of animals, I will choose the aforesaid actions over apathy any day of the week.-”

Action Choices Given Animal Week Research Direct Killing Burning Torture Apathy Murderer Liberating Laboratory Days Of The Week Mink Burning Down

Author:Gary Yourofsky

“The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us.”

Ability Amount Demand Direct Difficulty Ratios

Author:Earl Nightingale

“'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.”

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Author:Patrick Stump

“Direct mail - it falls out of every magazine you open these days”

Fall Direct Magazines These Days Mail

Author:Derek Jameson

“Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.”

Children Remember Concepts Direct Personal Experiences

Author:Joseph Cornell

“The Constitution enjoins an oath upon all the officers of the United States. This is a direct appeal to that God Who is the avenger of perjury. Such an appeal to Him is a full acknowledgement of His being and providence.”

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Author:Oliver Wolcott

“There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.”

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Author:Ian Anderson

“Knowledge about God is of two kinds, direct and indirect. Indirectly we can read scriptures, listen to sermons, consult authorities, and from these sources build a reasonable case that God exists. But such a God transmits no love to Earth. Therefore nothing substitutes for gyana, which is direct knowledge of the divine. Instead of having thoughts about God, you share God's own thoughts. Her thoughts can only be about Herself.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“By studying the Bible one can at best know about God. There is a vast difference between knowing God and knowing about God. Knowing God comes through direct power encounters and through biblical study. These power encounters are usually of a variety which cannot be found within the context of the dusty moldy pages of God's past tracks.”

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Author:Tommy Tenney

“However, today due to civil litigation funded by cults this option for families has been eliminated. Instead, the only form of cult intervention now practiced is voluntary-with the exception of minor children under the direct supervision of a custodial parent.”

Children Has Beens Today Form Parent Direct Dues Exception Minors Cult Intervention Supervision

Author:Rick Ross

“There are many direct biological benefits that result from higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Two of the most important are increased plant photosynthesis and water-use efficiency.”

Two Important Use Water Results Higher Benefits Direct Plant Concentration Efficiency Co2 Photosynthesis

Author:Keith E. Idso

“I don't feel any kind of a responsibility (other than to myself) to write "weighty" lyrics. In fact I sometimes wish I could learn to write in a simpler form, to be more direct and I'm going to be experimenting with this.”

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Author:Stuart Adamson

“We have aspects in our music that refer to space, like Kometenmelodie, but we also have some very earthly aspects that are very direct and not from outer space but from inner space like from the human being and the body, and very close to every day life.”

Direct Outer Space

Author:Ralf Hutter

“I think that I would like to have that kind of a budget [hundreds millions dollars] and I think the reasons for it are it gives you more time and it gives you the opportunity to be more ambitious with what you want to do with the camera and also how a scene works. I wouldn't want to direct those kinds of scripts.”

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Author:Duncan Jones

“Anarchism means all sort of things to different people but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on. Actually, one piece of the media confusion has a basis because there really are two different strands in the occupy movement, both important, but different.”

“There are millions of peaceful Muslims across the world, in countries like India, where there is not the problems we are seeing in nations that are controlled - have territory controlled by Al Qaida or ISIS, and we should direct at the problem, focus on the problem, and defeat radical Islamic terrorism. It's not a war on a faith; it's a war on a political and theocratic ideology that seeks to murder us.”

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Author:Ted Cruz

“I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it.”

Writing Ends Novel Direct Personal Life Correlation

Author:Laurie Foos

“The people have only a very vague direct power. They have the power of voting against the administration, again after its decisions have been taken; but they have no way of getting into the question of policy-making, decision-making, except insofar as the vague forces and pressures of public debate and public opinion have their impact on the President. The President still has to decide. He can't go to the people and ask them to decide for him; he has to make the decision. In that sense he was condemned to be a dictator.”

“On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.”

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Author:Bocafloja

“The Latin American Left, the criollos, direct descendents of Spaniards, they don't want to accept that they are the whites of Latin America. They don't want to talk about race. The discussion for them is based on class struggle, rich against poor, but doesn't offer the possibility of a dialogue about racial questions.”

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Author:Bocafloja

“Music is a language of emotion. I'm passionate about it because I think it's the most direct way to connect to the things that are ineffable. Words just aren't necessary a good enough opportunity to express. Words are maybe less than accessible at expressing.”

Thinking Way Enough Opportunity Language Emotion Music Is Direct Passionate Good Enough Ineffable

Author:Adrian Grenier

“I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our ancient county structures, though hollowed out in many ways, are a direct result of what happened in 1066.”

Thinking Way Stills Strong Church Results Happened Direct Structure Ancient Legacy Britain Conquest Monarchy County Hereditary Norman Conquest

Author:Paul Kingsnorth

“Еhere's no doubt at all that the Norman conquest led to the hugely concentrated land ownership patterns that we still see in Britain today. Some of Britain's biggest landowners are still direct descendants of Norman barons. And given the impact that Britain has had on the world over the past few hundred years, you could perhaps say this was a global issue. History is always with us.”

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Author:Paul Kingsnorth

“I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or direct their movies, but then they'd want me to be in them.”

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Author:Bill Hader

“The real secret to my success was I could shoot with either hand. Ironically, I became ambidextrous as a direct result of breaking my right hand.”

Real Hands Results Secret Direct Ambidextrous

Author:Dolph Schayes

“By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.”

Kind Stills Country Inspiration Direct Hip Hop Hips Hops Never Ending Unattainable Undying Love

Author:Talib Kweli

“When I work, I'm the actor. I'm going to do my job. I'm not going to direct the movie. If I wanted to direct it, I would direct it. I wanted J.J. Abrams to direct Mission: Impossible. I work with people that I respect. I expect them to do their jobs, and I will do mine. And I am there as a producer to help in any way, but no one makes a movie by themselves. It's a collaboration.”

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Author:Tom Cruise

“I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.”

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Author:Peter Hedges

“I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell.”

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Author:Peter Hedges

“I don't know necessarily that I would produce under my own company right now. Producing is not something that I'm thinking about. Directing is something that I will be doing very shortly, trying to figure out what to get my hands on. And I can't imagine writing a script and wanting to direct it and not having a producing credit, because I would want to have a big chunk of power on that end, if I wrote something.”

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Author:Scarlett Johansson

“I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.”

Way Feels War Hard Social Conditions Direct Ignorant Justified Social Conditions

Author:PJ Harvey

“People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.”

People Thinking Direct Melancholy

Author:Norah Jones

“I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.”

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Author:Carole King

“I think people get mad because I make more direct records.”

People Thinking Records Direct Mad

Author:Kool Keith

“All of the guys love to take serious topics and go for it; we're not writing a whole lot of love songs. With 'Sacrificed Sons,' we had some sensitivity there about how we'd present it. I remember there was a lot of discussion about the kind of words that would be used and how direct we wanted to be.”

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Author:Jordan Rudess

“Nothing has really changed. We had bootleg albums in the '60s and today we have Internet file sharing. They just found a better way to do it -- get music for free. What's great about today is an artist has an opportunity to go direct to their audience without dealing with a middleman. People can go directly to the web for CDs, DVDs and downloads. I think that's the best thing that's happened, that people's music is being flashed around the world.”

“In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.”

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Book:Strategy Six Pack

Source: Strategy Six Pack

“Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation. This is the seductive lure of socialism. And I repeat: these two uses of the law are in direct contradiction to each other.”

Source: The Law

“When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.”

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Book:The hurried child: growing up too fast too soon

Source: The hurried child: growing up too fast too soon

“Essentially, there's a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link-ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace-electronic space.”

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Author:Timothy Leary

“We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience.”

Thinking Knows Direct Numb

Author:Stephen Levine

“If you watch my movie, you understand I am perverse and weird and angry and not looking to direct a film that ends with a bunch of teenagers exploding into glitter.”

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Author:Lena Dunham

“A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.”

Thinking Feels Littles Direct Great Men Thread Weavers

Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...

“Enlightenment is beyond self-improvement and spiritual seeking. It is the final resolution of a case of mistaken identity. It is the direct recognition of your eternal nature and the seeing through of who you have falsely believed yourself to be.”

Self Spiritual Cases Seeing Identity Eternal Self Improvement Enlightenment Direct Finals Seeking Improvement Recognition Resolution Mistaken Mistaken Identity

Author:Gary Crowley

“We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology however frank and open our behaviour we cannot penetrate the incognito of the other man, for there are no direct relationships, not even between soul and soul. Christ stands between us, and we can only get into touch with our neighbors through Him.”