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“It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.”

Source: 99 Quotes and Affirmations For Self-Love & Personal Development

“Being generally deemed a good person often requires one to tell a half-truth, not to tell the truth, or to tell a complete lie.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sometimes hearing the truth takes more courage than speaking the truth.”

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Book:Wealth of Words

Source: Wealth of Words

“Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim.”

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Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –”

Source: Nightmarish Sacrifice

“You may use a thousand words for a single lie, but the truth has no twin.”

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Author:Michael Bassey Johnson

“An unfortunate thing that you can do to a person is to be unapologetically direct and not understand their side.”

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Book:Red Sugar, No More

Source: Red Sugar, No More

“Seek a man that doesn't ask you to prove your love. Seek a man that will prove God's love.”

“Being compassionate does not mean refraining from telling people, when they are, that they are to blame for their own suffering.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Even though we live in an unfair world, where some men and nations acquire their wealth in ways that are not always as straightforward as we would like it to be, yet in the midst of it all, it is not impossible to discover principles and secrets for the greatness of nations.”

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Author:Sunday Adelaja

“A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster.”

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Author:Loren Weisman

“This time.... Have no mercy “ ~ Ronnie Rodgers, Son Of Mars: Origins”

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Book:Son of mars

Source: Son of mars

“We need to become sidha (straightforward); there is no need to become a sadhu (ascetic).”

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Author:Dada Bhagwan

“You better not turn out to be an asshole,” she says quietly. “And you better be done with that guy in Italy,” I reply.”

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Book:Finding Cinderella

Source: Finding Cinderella

“He was no storyteller, as he had said, but that made it more enjoyable somehow, watching his serious face as he described flying horses and golden apples.”

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Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“You will never be able to see clearly when people around you distort your view of truth with their own clouded version. You will begin to read into everything incorrectly and find yourself lost in a delusional story stitched together from the crumbs of over analyzed words once spoken, misunderstandings or speculation. Life should not be wasted by collecting clues or piecing together a puzzle about how someone feels. Love is straightforward and it is clearly seen on the cloudiest days of your life. If someone loves you it will be obvious. They won't let you go, until you ask them to.”

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Author:Shannon L. Alder

“There was nothing abstract or theoretical in his world. The stars had no significance. The sky was not interesting unless it showed probability of rain. He ate corn, corn, corn. He ate beans, beans, beans.”

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Book:The Goblins of Eros

Source: The Goblins of Eros

“Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.”

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Author:Zayn Malik

“Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.”

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Author:Juice Newton

“I'm more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.”

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Author:Britney Spears

“I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.”

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Author:Zack Snyder

“The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.”

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Author:Oliver Lodge

“Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man.”

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Author:Robert Wagner

“I hope I have a few years left in my 'last days,' but whether I do or do not, I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true, that it came forth the way Joseph said it came forth and was given to bring happiness and hope to the faithful in the travail of the latter days.”

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Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.”

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Author:Lindsey Graham

“Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.”

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Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh”

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Author:Michael Palin

“In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.”

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Author:David Cameron

“The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people-and this is true whether or not they are well-educated-is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations-in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.”

“Exploratory research is really like working in a fog. You don't know where you're going. You're just groping. Then people learn about it afterwards and think how straightforward it was.”

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Author:Francis Crick

“I think guys are afraid of being too straightforward, so sometimes being coy gets you nowhere.”

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Author:Holly Carpenter

“Dennis McCurdy's Find A Way is a straightforward compilation of suggestions that will simplify your life and set you on the path toward success. The book has the feel of a friendly neighbor sharing the secrets that enabled him to win in life. This is an easy read that pays big dividends. I enjoyed it and highly recommend Find A Way to anyone seeking motivation.”

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Author:Tolly Burkan

“People don't seem to make the connection between their tax money and the benefits that they get from their tax money, like free education, and the fire department, and police protection, and everything else. It drives me bonkers, because it's pretty straightforward to me.”

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Author:Michael Schur

“In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.”

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Author:Paul McCartney

“How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this is totally shocking. Two, it's not at all shocking, but a familiar part of my life and memory. Grimsley's narrative is straightforward and plain-spoken while at the same time achingly moving and intimately honest, and it does more to explain the South than anything I've read in a long, long time.”

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Author:Josephine Humphreys

“Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.”

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Author:Tahir Shah

“It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country, because he has deserved well of his country.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.”

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Book:The Sociological Imagination

Source: The Sociological Imagination

“Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.”

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Author:Garik Israelian

“Science may be weird and incomprehensible--more weird and less comprehensible than any theology--but science works. It gets results. It can fly you to Saturn, slingshotting you around Venus and Jupiter on the way. We may not understand quantum theory (heaven knows, I don't), but a theory that predicts the real world to ten decimal places cannot in any straightforward sense be wrong.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“Theres a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. Its very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but its there to be seen.”

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Author:Michael Nesmith

“Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others.”

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Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2) To accomplish that purpose, the designer forms a plan. (3) To execute the plan, the designer specifies building materials and assembly instructions. (4) Finally, the designer or some surrogate applies the assembly instructions to the building materials. What emerges is a designed object, and the designer is successful to the degree that the object fulfills the designer's purpose.”

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Book:No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence

Source: No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence

“There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting. But this is one case when I need to be fairly straightforward. I'll just try to paint the man, his intelligence, his amiability and his stature, maybe paint him fairly close to humor and try to get it just right.”

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Author:Nelson Shanks

“Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of journalism is that straightforward descriptions of reality are seen as being biased.”

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Author:Jonathan Alter

“A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.”

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Author:Bradley Denton

“You have to be rather straightforward with your clients. You can't tell the parties only nice things. This is not an entertainment show; it's not reality television either.”

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Author:Martti Ahtisaari

“I have an Easter challenge for Christians. My challenge is simply this: tell me what happened on Easter. I am not asking for proof. My straightforward request is merely that Christians tell me exactly what happened on the day that their most important doctrine was born.”

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Author:Dan Barker

“Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

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