Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: complete :: incomplete

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Quoted In The Grove:
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
~F H Bradley

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fear is incomplete knowledge.
~Agatha Christie

EndQuote:
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
~Henry James

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When you’re not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.
~Larry David

All I can do is engage with complete sincerity. Then whatever happens, there is no regret.
~Dalai Lama

Complete honesty has nothing to do with ‘purity’ or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.
~Clement Greenberg

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History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society’s rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.
~Jane Hirshfield

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one’s enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one’s friends.
~Joseph Conrad

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth‒ anonymously and posthumously.
~Thomas Sowell

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Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: “Finish me! Live me! Complete me!” There is an intrinsic quality in every experience that it tends and wants to be finished, completed. Once completed, it evaporates; incomplete, it persists, it tortures you, it haunts you, it attracts your attention. It says, “What are you going to do about me? I am still incomplete ‒ fulfill me!”
~Shree Rajneesh

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
~Sai Baba

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
~Khalil Gibran

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There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.
~John McDonald

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.
~Dolly Parton

Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other.
~Barry Unsworth

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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
~Jack Kornfield

If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.
~Shannon L Alder

If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces.
~Oprah Winfrey

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Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self.
~Margery Wilson

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
~Josh Billings

For us to transform as a society, we have to allow ourselves to be transformed as individuals. And for us to be transformed…we have to allow for the incompleteness of any of our truths and a real forgiveness for the complexity of human beings.
~angel Kyodo williams

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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
~Jane Austen

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
~Anais Nin

Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete.
~Paul Kalanithi

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When “why” are we here? is not clear to us, it will often end up in “incompleteness.”
~Prashant B Yeole

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.
~Stephen Hawking

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
~Stephen Hawking

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To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.
~Epictetus

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
~Walter Darby Bannard

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
~Samuel Butler

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.
~Michelangelo (creator)

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
~Edgar Allan Poe

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.
~Lev Grossman

One of the greatest sounds of them all ‒ and to me it is a sound ‒ is utter, complete silence.
~Andre Kostelanetz (conductor)

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It’s often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.
~Susan Polis Schutz

‘The melancholy of all things done’ is the way Buzz once described his complete mental breakdown after returning from the moon. Booze. A couple of divorces. A psych ward. Broke. At one point he was selling cars.
~Jeanne Marie Laskas

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.
~Jocko Willink (ex-SEAL, writer)

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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that it’s hard to tell them apart.
~Carol Plum-Ucci

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.
~Merrill Markoe

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.
~Richard Shweder

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The fact that we are I don’t know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.
~Georges Simenon

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
~Aristotle

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, ‘Let’s all jump into despair.’ But it doesn’t help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.
~Yehuda Berg

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.
~Raoul Vaneigem

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
~Viktor E Frankl

The fear of life, the fear of burdens and of duties, of annoyances and of catastrophes! The fear of life, which makes us, through dread of its sufferings, refuse its joys. Ah! I tell you, this cowardliness enrages me; I cannot forgive it. We must live ‒ live a complete life ‒ live all our life.
~Emile Zola

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Posted From The Grove

Anarchists are extreme libertarian socialists , “libertarian” meaning the demand for freedom from prohibition, and “socialist” meaning the demand for social equality. …Complete equality implies freedom, since those who suffer restrictions cannot be the equals of those who impose them.
~Donald Rooum

Arguably, the application of complete libertarianism leads one towards anarchy.
~Michael O’Rielly

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
~Will Durant

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An ideal and flawless freedom, “complete freedom”, enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is an unreachable goal in social life.
~Zygmunt Bauman

If you go by that little inscription on the Statue of Liberty, the purest idea of America is complete cultural chaos.
~Everlast

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Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
~George Bernard Shaw

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.
~John Desmond Bernal

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The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.
~Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it’s about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security.
~Li Keqiang (Chinese politician/economist, ex-Premier)

I’m not affiliated with Ed Burke, Joe Berrios or anyone else who represents the old, corrupt Chicago way. I am offering voters a complete break from that past and pushing us forward in a way that brings people together and makes government more inclusive.
~Lori Lightfoot

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I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.
~George H W Bush

Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.
~Margaret Chase Smith

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Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.
~James Monroe

May these happy United States attain that complete splendour and prosperity which will illustrate the blessings of their government, and for ages to come rejoice the departed souls of their founders!
~Marquis de Lafayette

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At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.
~Klaus Fuchs

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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
~Clara Barton

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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
~John Stuart Mill

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While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.
~Errico Malatesta

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When we anthropomorphize the egg and sperm, when we turn them into a miniature bride and groom complete with personalities, what effect does this have on abortion legislation?
~Emily Martin

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The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists [governance by elite] and the Republicans [agrarian/states rights], and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.
~Herbert Croly

In the 1880s and 1890s, extremists in the Republican party also threatened the future of the US. Just when it seemed the extremists’ control of the government was complete, their political machinations, propaganda, and demonization of their opposition fueled a dramatic backlash.
~Heather Cox Richardson

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Faith in the wisdom of the people is exactly what makes the Constitution incomplete and crude.
~Professor Pitkannan

This is a great country, but fortunately for you, it is not perfect. There is much to be done to bring about complete equality. Remove hunger. Bring reality closer to theory and democratic principles.
~Thurgood Marshall (SCJ)

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I know there’s a lot of discussion about building a 2000-mile wall. I think we need to complete the Secure Fencing Act, but we need greater technology and aviation aspects down on the Southwest border so we can see the threat from the sky. Until you can see it, you don’t know where it’s coming from and how to correctly stop it.
~Michael McCaul

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
~Erwin Rommel

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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
~Ernest Hemingway

The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving the cause of freedom, we must seek abolition of war through programs of general and complete disarmament. The Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 represents a significant beginning in this immense undertaking.
~Robert Kennedy

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Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
~Mark Skousen

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
~Franklin Pierce

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We’re all outriders out there, and what we have is all these large number of tasks ‒ that’s the herd; that’s all the cattle ‒ a whole bunch of individual, hundreds if not thousands of projects at any given time ongoing that we’re trying to complete. So we’re trying to keep the cattle herd, keep it all just going in the right direction.
~David Petraeus (Army Gen, ex-CIA)

We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the US public believes is false.
~William J Casey (ex-CIA)

I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on.
~Jon Stewart.

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I’m actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.
~Edward Witten

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.
~Jean-Paul Marat

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
~Friedrich August von Hayek (Austrian, 1899-1992)

Delusion completely overcomes man’s sense of right and wrong.
~Srimad Bhagavatam

I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.
~Alfredo Stroessner (dictator 35 years)

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
~Rene Descartes

I’m armed with more than complete steel, ‒ The justice of my quarrel.
~Christopher Marlowe

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Number One, if there is no America, then the world will be a complete mess.
~Michael T Flynn

Washington is a complete mess. It’s become a venue for partisan bickering, where the needs of the working class just don’t matter.
~Meghan McCain

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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people’s power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
~Samora Machel

I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again.
~Tony Greig

There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing.
~Martha Smith

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Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities.
~Mahmoud Abbas

Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us ‒ becoming stronger and stronger ‒ and we will complete the message.
~David Ben-Gurion

I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.
~Yoav Gallant

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There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn’t mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one’s own, then that freedom is less than worthless ‒ it’s oppression.
~Amir Butler

We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.
~George Crook (defeated Geronimo)

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The idea of a mentally ill vice president who suffers in complete isolation was obviously sparked by the behaviors I witnessed by Sarah Palin. What if somebody who was ill-equipped for the office were to ascend to the presidency or vice presidency? What would they do? How long would it take for people to figure it out?
~Nicolle Wallace

One needs a Seer’s Vision and an Angel’s voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.
~Sarojini Naidu (1st woman president of Indian National Congress)

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it’s do or die.
~Curtis Sliwa (Guardian Angels, NYC/etc, unarmed)

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In honor of the great man’s wish to be in everyone’s thought, conversation, and headline, on their lips, minds, and public buildings, all the time: he is granted shared space on this page for the attention he craves and deserves. The following section of quotes is offered up in consideration of his good name.
~Ed Note

The idea that Donald Trump is a conservative is a complete farce. He is a conman who pretends to be a conservative.
~Evan McMullin

Trump’s behavior is conscienceless, showing utter disregard for the safety of others, consistent irresponsibility, callousness, cynicism and disrespect of other human beings. Contempt for truth and honesty, and for norms, rules and laws. A complete inability to feel remorse, or guilt.
~George T Conway III

You’re very kind to say so, but to be clear. You did just say, as our leader and a human being, he is complete, a soul… or did you just call him a complete asshole?
~Virginia (Virgin for short but not for long) Dares

McConnell is the most talented majority leader in a generation. He has complete control of his caucus and understands and exploits their weaknesses, ambitions, and desires. In an impeachment trial where his members knew Trump’s guilt was absolute and unequivocal, he bribed and browbeat them into submission.
~Rick Wilson

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.
~Julius Caesar

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A newspaper is complete. It is finished, sure of itself, certain. By contrast, digital news is constantly updated, improved upon, changed, moved, developed ‒ an ongoing conversation and collaboration. It is living, evolving, limitless, relentless.
~Katharine Viner

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
~Rabindranath Tagore

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
~Vaclav Havel

I do think that the success, although still not complete… in the recognition of equal rights… to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we’ve had to report.
~Walter Cronkite

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Policies change, and programs change, according to time. But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes. Our objective is complete freedom, complete justice, complete equality, by any means necessary
~Malcolm X

They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people’s revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.
~Bobby Seale

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don’t think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you’re happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven’t reached that stage yet.
~Rosa Parks

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.
~Byron White (SCJ)

There are African-American families around this country ‒ a large, large number of African-American families ‒ that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.
~Ta-Nehisi Coates

The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
~Ida B Wells

While nothing is perfect or complete in the battle for civil rights, the efforts of Dr. King and those like him have in fact, changed the country and the world for the better in noticeable ways. His vision has made the world a more equal place, and if not equal, it has helped to ensure that minorities have a voice.
~Skai Jackson

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~Steph Edwards: Complete-Gokai (1:06) Five Reiki Principles for Happiness…

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~The Unexpected Gypsy: A Complete Guide to Creative Journaling (32:13)

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~Sean Ruecroft: Complete (1:41) almost… the retirement years

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Projects are usually undertaken to either solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity. The probability that the project ‒ even if precisely executed ‒ will complete on time, on budget, and on performance is typically small. Project management is utilized to increase this probability. So in a sense, project management is risk management.
~Bruce Pittman

A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it.
~Scott Allen

Projects progress quickly until they become 90% complete, then remain 90% complete forever.
~Edward Butler

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Very few negotiations are begun and concluded in the same sitting. It’s really rare. In fact, If you sit down and actually complete your negotiation in one sitting, you left stuff on the table.
~Christopher Voss

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I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.
~Werner Herzog

One of the reasons why I agreed to do commercials is that they gave me complete freedom. I just had to have the car in it and write a story around it. I wanted to do something serious set in a Latin American country, but again, it was an exercise in style for me.
~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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It doesn’t take a lot of research to realize that the human eye is drawn to attractive things. So the better looking your LinkedIn profile is ‒ meaning ‒professional and complete ‒ the more qualified you’ll appear to your audience and the more interested people will be to check out your site.
~Lewis Howes

I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.
~Mike Wilson

If SoftBank can complete the tender offer it contemplates to buy a large stake in Uber, the company’s bizarre governance war will be over for the time being, putting Uber back on par with other normal companies whose boards of directors dont fight publicly with each other.
~Adam Lashinsky

I was the assistant to the editor-in-chief of ‘Esquire Magazine.’ And my experience as an assistant was really best case scenario. My boss was absolutely the greatest boss I could have asked for. But I think there’s something universal about being an assistant, regardless of whether or not your boss is the greatest or a complete terror.
~Camille Perri

When Apple introduced its game-changing iPhone in 2007, Nokia was caught sleeping on the job. Although it had actually developed an iPhone-style device ‒ complete with a color touchscreen, maps, online shopping, the lot ‒ some seven years earlier. Astonishingly, it never released the product.
~Noreena Hertz

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The Small Business ‘common app’ would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure that small businesses across the country can concentrate on growing and creating jobs ‒ not wasting time, filling out mountains of repetitive paperwork.
~Kay Hagan

When you go to a voice-based interaction, you can’t tell people, ‘Ask me this question and structure it in this way.’ And if they ask a question, and you have a bad answer, first time, maybe they’ll be okay with it. Third time, they’re going to say, ‘This is a complete waste of time. I’m going away.’
~Dara Khosrowshahi

Our DNA is as a consumer company for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.
~Steve Jobs

Our value proposition to consumers is so much more about completeness than freshness. Having the complete season is so much more valuable, in our business model, than having last night’s episode.
~Ted Sarandos (Netflix)

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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
~John Burroughs

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Every manager is different in one way or another, but what stays the same is coaching Barcelona players ‒ players who want the ball, who want to be protagonists on the field ‒ so each manager who’s been here has been able to take advantage of that, and, luckily, I feel we’ve become more complete because of it.
~Sergio Busquets

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I would really love to win one of the men’s championships and throw a complete curve ball, like, out of nowhere.
~Mickie James (woman/WWE/country singer)

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No golfer’s journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries.
~Alex Shoumatoff

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That’s what happens when you haven’t been home in eighteen years.
~Lee Trevino (PGA)

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You’ve got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you’re able to complete it and do it the right way.
~Al Kaline (right field)

I repeat my delivery consistently. My balance is much improved. And the mental and physical toughness Pilates requires to complete movements the correct way have directly helped me on the mound.
~Jake Arrieta

I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.
~Harmon Killebrew (power hitter)

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The culture of football is curious‒ steeped in tribalism, a sense of ownership, huge amounts of emotion and often a complete lack of objectivity.
~Simon Jordan

I’ve always tried to be a complete athlete and not limit myself to one position or one sport. It really helped mold my whole football game.
~Christian McCaffrey

I take complete pride in being the most versatile player in the NFL.
~Micah Parsons

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Skiing fast feels like complete freedom to me.
~KT Tunstall

For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it’s a complete physical expression of freedom.
~Robert Redford

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Running a marathon is appealing to runners for many reasons. It’s epic! A real test for your mind and body and a challenge that truly fills you with complete elation when you cross the finish line. But it is in no way a trivial undertaking.
~A J Odudu

I was happy to complete 118kg. When I lifted it, I knew my place in the Olympics was secured.
~Hidilyn Diaz

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I don’t think people realize what those weight cuts were doing to me. It took so much out of me to make 155. I wish I could put into words what it was like, to be able to paint the picture of my weight cuts, but I can’t. All I can say is that every fight week was a complete misery.
~Michael Chiesa

There’s a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.
~Michael Johnson

If they’re not the toughest fights I can get, then give me a complete washup, someone that’ll be an easy payday. But I’d rather have the toughest fights I can get so I can get to the title the fastest way possible.
~Jorge Masvidal

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One of the best things to me about ‘Skate‘ is that if you play this game from beginning to end, you just got a complete education on what skateboarding is.
~Rob Dyrdek

The gaming world is a complete mystery to me! Well, I did play Pac Man and Frogger using big machines at an arcade back in the ’80s.
~Doug Jones

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If you challenge yourself and try to be the best in all areas, you have to be a complete driver.
~Fernando Alonso

It is not only about just doing a fast lap. You also need to use your brains and be clever, and I think that is what makes you a complete driver at the end.
~Max Verstappen

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I want to be the best I can be and be a complete player.
~Terry Rozier

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.
~Kobe Bryant

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. Magic is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.
~(Magic) Earvin Johnson, Jr

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I’m new to the club but I’ve had a television since I was little and ever since I can remember I’ve been watching Madrid complete comebacks when it seems there is no chance.
~Jude Bellingham

Cristiano Ronaldo is sensational, a very good professional, an incredible goalscoring machine for many years, but Messi is the most complete player I have seen.
~Joachim Low

Ronaldo is brilliant, Messi more my kind of player. He sees the game so clearly. He can score, create; he’s the complete player ‒ the best ever, probably.
~Dimitar Berbatov

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The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
~Billie Joe Armstrong

I’ve got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.
~Sandy Koufax

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§ VIDEO:

When I’ve gone back to work, it’s always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it’s the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can’t avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
~Daniel Day-Lewis

I think it is the fact that I want to quit that keeps me going. It’s very complicated. But I think part of this whole exploration with every job that I do is, in terms of overcoming fear and by overcoming the fear, I feel so much more complete, and I learn something new about myself.
~Brie Larson

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When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That’s complete rubbish.
~Cate Blanchett

I suspect that we get used to particular sorts of stories being presented in particular sorts of ways, and we’re so used to interpreting them and understanding what it is they’re doing that we think of those forms and styles as faithful, complete depictions of reality.
~Ann Leckie

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I’ve played quite a lot of crooks and killers, and that’s quite interesting. Then Dumbledore is the complete opposite, isn’t he? He’s a nice old man.
~Michael Gambon

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.
~Keanu Reeves

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I’ve tried it 85 times, and I’ve succeeded two or three times.
~Michael Caine

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The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
~Alfred Jarry

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that’s what I’m trying to do.
~Quentin Tarantino

As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film.
~Michael Mann

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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
~Buffalo Bill

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.
~Niall Ferguson

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
~Alfred de Vigny

The photograph of the Queen sitting stiffly across the table from Glasgow resident Susan McCarron is so natural and expressive that it looks utterly fake. It looks like an artist’s portrait, complete with symbolism, humour and poignancy. No wonder the palace and the press have interpreted it in such different ways.
~Amanda Foreman

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When I was about six or seven, I did this character reenactment performance where I read a monologue from ‘Peter Pan.’ I got into a complete Peter Pan outfit and did a little paragraph from the script ‒ and I ended up winning an award for it.
~Levi Miller

I made my first complete song when I was 9.
~Ludacris

I was a rebel. I went to Carmel Convent in Delhi where I was a complete rebel. I thought I was 12 going on 18. I wanted to go out with friends older to me, stay out late ‒ my parents were horrified. It was then that we began having our first disagreements.
~Lillete Dubey (actress/theatre director)

I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn’t have the hot girlfriend. I wasn’t ever sought after. I was a stocky, awkward kid who got laughed off the tennis court when I tried that.
~Josh Brolin

I was a complete vagabond till the age of 20, when I got my first job as an assistant director with Pankaj Parashar.
~Farhan Akhtar

I didn’t pass my degree due to never handing in an acceptable dissertation, and while it didn’t harm me in the long run, my failure to complete the course properly probably led me to spend the next six years or so coasting, unsure of what to do next.
~Charlie Brooker (Black Mirror)

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
~James Thurber

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
~W Somerset Maugham

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.
~Marilyn Monroe

Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.
~Mario Vargas Llosa

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A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
~Henry David Thoreau

There is no doubt that, as works of art, books that lack canine interest are incomplete.
~Roy Hattersley

The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century ‒ it was actually mummified, skin and all ‒ but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
~Adam Savage

My study of the wild gorilla is not yet finished, and even when it is complete, it will contribute only a small part toward man’s understanding of his closest animal relatives, the great apes. But one conclusion is already clear: The gorilla is one of the most maligned animals in the world.
~Dian Fossey

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I’ve had people say to me, ‘You’ll never sell handbags. You don’t work with leather, and leather is luxury.’ To me, it’s the complete opposite: leather is everywhere ‒ it’s so cheap a material; it’s so mass produced. Over 50 million animals a year are killed just for fashion. For me, it doesn’t have a luxury element to it.
~Stella McCartney

Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.
~Mahatma Gandhi

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On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.
~John Hoeven

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
~Dan Lipinski

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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
~Baruch Spinoza

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
~Aristotle

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
~Franz Liszt

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~Omeleto: Likewise, Olive (16:52) completing the circle

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~MagnetFilm: The Fox and the Bird (12:06) another circle completes, animated

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~DUST: Laboratory Conditons (17:01) star studded… worth it?

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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
~Alfred North Whitehead

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.
~Jean Tinguely

There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.
~Jonas Mekas (“godfather of American avant-garde cinema”)

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
~Salvador Dali

Art isn’t complete until it’s shared.
~Seph Lawless

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I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to reflect: I am a mirror. Logic does not exist for me. I float on the waves of art and life and never really know how to distinguish what belongs to the one or the other or what is common to both. Life unfolds for me like a theatre presenting a sequence of somewhat unreal sentiments; while the things of art are real to me and go straight to my heart.
~Sviatoslav Richter (Russ classical pianist)

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
~Oscar Wilde

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.
~Elizabeth Moon

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Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline.
~Joe Shuster (Superman)

Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet the deadline, they don’t care when I work or how I work.
~Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes)

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The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
~Yves Tanguy

I remember so well my father’s complete concentration when he went to the studio. Everything he did, every movement he made, he did with complete concentration. Then, after he had finished work, he would go to the beach or whatever, and then he would enjoy play and forget about his work.
~Claude Picasso

A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared to hope the picture might spring to life.
~Lucian Freud

Some people can sit and enjoy the view… some people like to take photos to feel complete. I need to somehow possess it in some other way. I just have to somehow grasp it and take it home in a more fulsome way. It’s where ideas come from.
~Graeme Base (Brit-Aussie author/artist)

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A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
~Isabel Paterson

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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It is very important that our young people have constructive early work experiences. But it is equally important that their jobs are safe and complement their education, rather than complete it.
~Alexis Herman

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I cannot believe that my generation may very well have been the last one to have sex education in schools that was truly the complete and total package. I mean what are we doing? Are we in the future, but acting like it’s The Dark Ages?
~Sheryl Lee Ralph

Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
~Assata Shakur

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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
~Bo Jackson (NFL)

I never intended on fighting past a UFC contract. When I was on that four-fight losing streak, and I was considering stepping away, I wasn’t thinking of going anywhere else. I was thinking about studying philosophy at university, a complete directional change.
~Dan Hardy

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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves ‒ you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.
~Ray Bradbury

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.
~Paul Thomas Anderson

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All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despite all my efforts, I had not succeeded in acquiring in Poland a preparation as complete as that of the French students following the same course.
~Marie Curie

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
~Norman Cousins

I need to complete my homework on time.
~Malala Yousafzai (Pakistani, youngest Nobel)

Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom. Grittier soldiers are more likely to complete their training, and grittier salespeople are more likely to keep their jobs. The more challenging the domain, the more grit seems to matter.
~Angela Duckworth

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My country is a country of teachers. It is therefore a country of peace. We discuss our successes and failures in complete freedom. Because our country is a country of teachers, we closed the army camps, and our children go about with books under their arms, not with rifles on their shoulders. We believe in dialogue, in agreement, in reaching a consensus.
~Oscar Arias (Costa Rica)

I wish I could spend more time in Africa. I have this intense sense of complete relaxation and normality here.
~Prince Harry

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Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can’t if the Japanese won’t let us in.
~Mike Rogers

The real problem in Mississippi is almost a complete moral breakdown. In order to move Mississippi from the bottom to the top, all we have to do is just get people to do a little more what they know, to practice a little more of what they preach.
~James Meredith

For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
~Sam Houston

I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal ‒ and that is to proudly report that signs have been erected as you enter our great state that say ‘Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia: Open for Business!’
~Joe Manchin

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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
~Yukio Mishima

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I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.
~Sun Ra

Ninety per cent of the world’s woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves ‒ so how can we know anyone else?
~Sydney J Harris

Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don’t know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.
~Paramahansa Yogananda

How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of the world. In effect, we say, ‘ I don’t dare show you what I am because I don’t trust you for a minute but please love me anyway because I so need you to. And, of course, if you don’t love me anyway, you’re a dirty dog, just as I suspected, so I was right in the first place.’ Yet, every time God’s children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
~Duke Ellington

In reality, humility means nothing other than complete honesty about yourself.
~Louis William Countryman

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Having an inaccurate or incomplete view of ourselves is why we are always depressed
~Sunday Adelaja

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
~Alan Watts

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§ MUSIC:

I don’t like telling really talented people who are amazing what they should do. I’m just going to let them be. It has to be complete freedom ‒ creativity has to be complete freedom.
~Eli Russell Linnetz

Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech.
~Zachary Cole Smith

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.
~Les Baxter

I have complete freedom, and there’s no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?
~Richard Marx

It’s impossible for me to feel like there’s only one way to do a thing. There’s nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it’s a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there’s a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear ’em in a different register. And if you don’t have complete freedom, or you won’t let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that’s too horrible to even think about.
~Wes Montgomery

Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom… In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.
~Duke Ellington

When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I’d like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do.
~Donny Hathaway

We’re five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.
~Maynard James Keenan (of bands: Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer)

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I felt like an ugly duckling back in school. I was a complete tomboy with short hair. Never in my dreams did I imagine that I would walk the ramp with 6-inch heels. My friends can’t believe that I’m an actor, because I was such an introvert in school.
~Pooja Hegde

I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day’s work. I can’t be to parties where the noise tires me. I can’t speak on the telephone. I must have complete calm.
~Yves Saint Laurent

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I think of myself as the queen of lounging. No lounge queen is complete without lounge clothes and house wigs.
~Wendy Williams

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad and incomplete in the urban compound.
~Marshall McLuhan

Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
~Yves Saint Laurent

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Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn’t advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn’t wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.
~Emma Watson

People think my name is Morpheus. Many times, people will say to me, ‘Morpheus!’ and I will complete the sentence by saying, ‘is not my name!’
~Laurence Fishburne

Being famous is complete luck, and that’s something you can’t bank on.
~Bo Burnham

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I’ve got a lot of opportunities, a lot of love in my life, a lot of things going for me. Still, it’s not complete. I know this is not the whole thing. There’s much more.
~Richard Gere

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Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.
~C S Lewis

Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I’m doing, God is pleased with that. It’s complete peace for me.
~Tyler Perry

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.
~Anatoly Karpov

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
~Jacques Prevert

I’ve got different ideas of complete happiness. But one is being by myself out in a forest, completely happy. Another is walking with a dog in some nice place. And three is sitting around preferably a fire, but not necessarily, and drinking red wine with friends and telling stories.
~Jane Goodall

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~Angel Feliciano: Swim Complete (3:31) wanting love, in need of saving

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~Keyshia Cole: You Complete Me (3:50) because love is forever

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~Emma Teta: Bruce Melodie • Complete Me (4:34) young love, a supple dancer

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~Complete: Jordan (2:55) the great debate, wrapped in rap

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~Backstreet Boys: Incomplete (3:54) moody, from being needy, in want of love

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~Jay Wud: Incomplete Heart (3:18) white backdrop, rock ‘n roll

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The story was left incomplete because I didn’t stop writing and you didn’t stop erasing.
~Chandni Arora

Two incomplete people can’t complete one another. Complete yourself and then let someone else complement you.
~Tony Gaskins

It’s not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It’s not the end-all, be-all of my life.
~Cher

It’s nice to be with someone, but I don’t think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad.
~Kristin Davis

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Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger.
~Martha C Nussbaum

There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.
~Eugene Kennedy

“I hate to tell you, dragon, but that’s an integral part of the whole business,” he whispered. “If you’re afraid to touch me then we’re not going to get very far.” She lifted her head to look at him. “I thought I could lie back and let you ravish me,” she said with complete honesty. He shook his head, the smile hovering around his lips, his eyes intent. “This is a cooperative effort, my love. You have to do your part.
~Anne Stuart (romance novelist)

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone ‒ but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
~Quentin Crisp

What will support any relationship is clear, complete and conscious conversations when upsets or breakdowns occur.
~Iyanla Vanzant

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Prenups are so unromantic ‒ a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together is a sign of incredible trust and financial openness ‒ you’re fooling yourself if you think you can achieve complete intimacy without it.
~Suze Orman

Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.
~Lope de Vega

My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.
~Sharon Tate

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Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn’t feel like a freak.
~Val McDermid

It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
~Zachary Quinto

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You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
~Keith Sweat

Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever.
~David Gest (to: Ms Minelli)

Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.
~David Kross

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Love could be more than just feeling those butterflies in your stomach when you are around them, but also a feeling of incompleteness when you are not around them.
~David Daniels

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
~Edmond de Goncourt

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The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.
~Valerie Solanas

A single man is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
~Benjamin Franklin

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification
~Joe Manganiello

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A woman isn’t complete without a man. But where do you find a man ‒ a real man ‒ these days?
~Lauren Bacall

If I had to define ‘sexy’ now, as Disney as it sounds, I would have to say it’s about complete and utter confidence.
~Solange Knowles

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A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person, we’re safe in our own paradise.
~Richard Bach

“Openness” [story] ultimately asks this same question can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say “Yes, of course!” But, over time, I’ve come to agree with Dan Savage.
~Alexander Weinstein

By never marrying, I ended up never divorcing, but I also failed to accumulate that brocade of civility and padlock of security ‒ kids you do or don’t want, Tiffany silver you never use ‒ that makes life complete.
~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
~Plato

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The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
~Ezra Taft Benson

If the bond between a husband and his wife is strong, then I think they complete each other, and the relationship also survives longer.
~Kratika Sengar

I don’t have an issue with marrying an actor, though it’s definitely tough. I work with actors and interact with star wives, and I don’t know how they do it. Loyalty is a very important factor for me, and I need to be in a relationship where the person will complete me and fill me up.
~Deepika Padukone

Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other’s strengths.
~Sheri L Dew

I’m a complete romantic ‒ it’s why I always get married. Someone should really stop me.
~Pamela Anderson

I think it’s unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
~Samuel Adams

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When my wife and I met, I couldn’t talk to her ‒ and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes and prods. I did it to her out of complete awe. When friends introduced us, I said ‘Hi’ – and turned my back. Later, I called my mom and best friend and said, ‘I think I just met my wife.’
~Mike Vogel

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At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.
~Norman Maclean

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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
~Sammy Davis, Jr

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
~Amos Bronson Alcott

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Why did I not stop to have children? I suppose because the opportunity didn’t present itself. Yes, many women feel they are not complete without having children, but I have different creative outlets.
~Miranda Richardson

There is a strong view in Nigeria, as in many other cultures, that a marriage is not complete without children. I don’t agree; I’m wary of the idea that people have to have some particular functionality in order to be full members of society.
~Ayobami Adebayo

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During the late ’20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
~Vidal Sassoon

I didn’t want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I’ve tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.
~Tyler Perry

Everybody gets sad, even dads that have people to care for, and therefore, you don’t have to hide your pain. Life without rainy days is incomplete.
~Thomas Sanders (Incomplete ‒ The Puzzle Song)

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A revocable living trust allows your heirs to avoid probate entirely and keeps you in complete control of your finances while you’re alive. You can always make changes to what’s in the trust and to how you’d ultimately like it managed or disbursed.
~Suze Orman

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I got married quite early. And then I had a son. I had a family. And this may be hard to believe, but I am a complete family kinda girl.
~Malaika Arora Khan

I got pregnant five or six months after I retired, and then it was off to the races! It was a complete change of gears, and I was refocusing my life on my family.
~Beth Phoenix (WWE)

I would love to have a complete family. I’d love to do it all at once. I’d love to be able to give to my children what my parents were able to give to me. And if I’m blessed to be able to do that, fantastic. If I’m not, then life goes on. You have to do the best you can. I do think we have to bring the family back; I do.
~Michael Ealy

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My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
~Brad Meltzer

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
~Charles Dickens

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If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible… now there’s the complete package of womanhood.
~Phil Robertson

Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control.
~Michelle Yeoh

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
~Anita Brookner

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Women! I have no idea. I don’t know anything about women at all. They’re a complete mystery to me.
~Bryan Ferry

Women. They are a complete mystery.
~Stephen Hawking (a scientist of some standing)

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I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one‒ but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.
~Elizabeth Blackwell

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
~Susan B Anthony

Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.
~Florence Kelley

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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
~Simone de Beauvoir

I’m a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it’s true. I am a feminist to a point. But I’m not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.
~Goldie Hawn

I really like women who are able to be classy and poised and really well put together when the time is right, but also be complete clowns.
~Jinkx Monsoon (drag queen)

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The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
~Betty Ford

The success of family welfare depends on giving women complete freedom with their lives. The need of the hour is that people should plan their families as per their convenience and get the bare minimum health facilities.
~Atal Bihari Vajpayee

From Clara Barton’s tireless work founding the American Red Cross to the first female Medal of Honor winner, Dr. Mary Walker, to our first female combat
fighter pilot Lt. Kara Hultgreen, no list of American heroes is complete without the names of some of these extraordinary women.
~Brian Kilmeade

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I think, for women in particular, it’s kind of like you’re expected to get married, have a child, and then you get to be a person. But you don’t need someone else ‒ be it a spouse or child ‒ to complete or validate your existence. Being human is enough and should be enough, and I hope that we all come to a point where we can accept that.
~Ayobami Adebayo

I’m not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don’t know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
~Marisa Tomei

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
~Zsa Zsa Gabor

I long ago vowed, as Batman did before me, never to make fun of stuff that people couldn’t help. Because it’s (1) easy and (2) not fair. There are plenty of things that people have complete control over that are worthy of ridicule.
~Paul F Tompkins (comedian/actor)

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
~Philip Johnson

There’s a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they’d eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn’t true.
~Ian Hart

People say New Yorkers can’t get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.
~David Letterman

If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck.
~Jeff Foxworthy

SpongeBob is a complete innocent ‒ not an idiot. SpongeBob never fully realizes how stupid Patrick is. They’re whipping themselves up into situations ‒ that’s always where the humor comes from.
~Stephen Hillenburg

Comedy, when it works, is light on its feet and has the illusion of complete spontaneity: as if there is no film, no camera. You are standing there experiencing it all in real time. This illusion, I believe, is why so many people think comedy is easy.
~David Dobkin

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Complete freedom from stress is death
~Hans Selye

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
~Blais Pascal

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
~Theodor W Adorno

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We sometimes feel that a life which was so brief was in vain, and that God has mocked us by giving us the little one and then by taking it away immediately. The child had no opportunity to perform a work, nor was there any time given to develop character. Let us remember, first of all, that the little one had an eternal spirit, and that it has gone into the presence of God where there will be an eternity to perform works and develop character. A brief life is not an incomplete life.
~J Vernon McGee

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
~D H Lawrence

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the non-self that there is no self left to die.
~Bernard Berenson

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Completed
© Alana Shaw

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Unmarried Quotes & Coupled Sets

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.
~Tertullian

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
~Virginia Woolf

I love to make a one-pot meal ‒ think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.
~Daniel Boulud

Aim for the sky, but move slowly, enjoying every step along the way. It is all those little steps that make the journey complete.
~Chanda Kochhar

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge ‒ the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If you do a good deed, don’t expect anything back ‒ the other person can still be a complete git.
~Katie Hopkins

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.
~Donald McKay

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that’s lacking.
~Victor Hugo

I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day’s work. I can’t be to parties where the noise tires me. I can’t speak on the telephone. I must have complete calm.
~Yves Saint Laurent

I was a complete, total nerd… I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don’t know if that happens in life. But I want it to.
~Elizabeth Mitchell

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Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we might call ‘the epiphanies of infancy’ ‒ the sensation of being blissfully held and feeling complete and at one with everything ‒ yet having no words or no need to say it but instead to just assimilate the feeling.
~Michael Leunig

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
~Jack London

Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.
~Deepak Chopra

Ecstasy can be painful when it’s intense enough, when the kundalini surges enough. The ecstasy is so complete, it’s overwhelming sometimes.
~Frederick Lenz

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I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
~Groucho Marx

We don’t need more money, we don’t need greater success or fame, we don’t need the perfect body or even the perfect mate‒right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.
~Dalai Lama

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
~Wayne Dyer

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
~Jim Rohn

Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale — a daydream. Which I can and will realise. I shall begin today.
~Charlotte Bronte

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In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don’t let your eyes deceive you.
~Janet Jackson

Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That’s the power of music.
~LZ Granderson

It’s funny how complete strangers can have familiar souls.
~J Iron Ward

Venting your anger on anyone ‒ especially complete strangers ‒ is not a winning tactic. Be especially sweet to bartenders and people serving you food.
~Elin Hilderbrand

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@Writers Platform:

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
~Jessamyn West

I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down ‒ notes about a character, lines of dialogue, descriptive passages about a place. One idea fires another. I do that for about a year. By then there’s a story, and I’ll go on to a complete first draft that sews many of those ragtag pieces together.
~Scott Turow

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.
~Joyce Carol Oates

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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
~Victor Hugo

If we took Chaucer’s writings at face value, we’d have to conclude he was a complete drip.
~John Hutton

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both ‘Moby Dick‘ and ‘The Great Gatsby‘ were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.
~Michael Cunningham

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don’t trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
~W G Sebald

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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
~Albert Camus

Abundance is about looking at life and knowing that you have everything you need for complete happiness, and then being able to celebrate each and every moment on earth.
~Wayne Dyer

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
~Maimonides

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A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
~Swami Sivananda

They say the full potential of the human being is called enlightenment, which is infinite consciousness, infinite happiness, zero negativity, zero dying, complete freedom, total fulfillment, and being at one with everything. You can say it’s God realization, or you can say you sit at the feet of the Lord as master of all you survey. You could say it’s totality, total knowledge, and that you are that totality. This is every human being’s birthright: to one day enjoy supreme enlightenment, unity. It’s like the big graduation.
~David Lynch

How do we awaken to this true Self? By going within and putting our attention on the silent presence in our heart ‒ the silent witness that is detached from sensory experience and at the same time enjoys that experience in complete freedom.
~Deepak Chopra

Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

If they [theories?] are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.
~Herbert Spencer (Brit polymath)

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.
~Bertrand Russell

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The idea of determinism [life ordained by events] combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
~Ken MacLeod

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It’s up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you’re not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can’t rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.
~Taraji P Henson

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top.
~O J Simpson

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We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place.
~Yehuda Berg

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
~Aristotle

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Prewritten Prompt: complete

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I step out for campaigning only after I complete my pooja at home, which is something I do every day.
~Hema Malini (Hindu prayer ritual)

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.
~W H Auden

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.
~John Paul Stevens (SCJ)

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I condemn all incidents of violence where religious minorities were targeted, no religious group can incite violence … my government will ensure there is complete freedom of faith.
~Narendra Modi

In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.
~Ruhollah Khomeini

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.
~Mahatma Gandhi

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Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.
~Benjamin Disraeli

Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.
~Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa’di

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A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.
~Mahatma Gandhi

We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it’s simply going hungry.
~Joseph B Wirthlin

Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.
~Oswald Chambers

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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
~Alfred Adler

But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.
~Lactantius

It is when thoughts of God reach no higher than to adjectives of praise that one wonders at the wheedling quality of favor-seekers, and if a real dialog is ever to be.
~I Ben Keen II

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Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else ‒ an animal’s incomplete compared to a person and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.
~Georges Bataille

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
~Pope John Paul II

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
~Sun Tzu

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Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.
~Deborah Sampson

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.
~Lucinda Franks

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There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.
~Lao Tzu

Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
~Ramana Maharshi

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I think I’m like most people ‒ we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.
~Rihanna

There is no limit to the potential of brethren working together in complete brotherhood and selflessness toward spiritual goals. The power of God working through such channels will bring unimaginable blessings to all concerned.
~Joseph B Wirthlin

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During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.
~John Nelson Darby (rapture theory)

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.
~William H Hunt

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
~Robert Anton Wilson

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I wanted Jesus in ‘A.D.’ to be very, very, very human ‒ to have those qualities of vulnerability and doubt and pain and sadness and loneliness. Once the resurrection happens and we see that Jesus has risen, it’s almost complete, right? It’s all about the joy and the smile and the happiness and the closeness to the disciples.
~Juan Pablo Di Pace

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely. Our submission defines our authority.
~Bradley Cooper

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such a complete alteration in the state of man kind?
~J C Ryle

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation ‒ which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased ‒ only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom. To do this you have to learn to let go. Let go of your sorrows, let go of your worries. That is the secret of walking meditation.
~Nhat Hanh

Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God’s many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the ‘only’ part.
~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Correct meditation means correctly understanding your situation moment by moment ‒ what are you doing now? Only do it! Then, each action is complete; each action is enough.
~Seung Sahn

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To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
~Denis Diderot

I have a complete temple of Lord Shiva. I have Shivansh written on me and that is the name of my sister’s son. I am a Leo so I also have a lion. I also have a warrior type tattoo as that gives me the spirit to fight when I am on the field. The pain of getting inked gives me joy.
~Yuzvendra Chahal (cricketer)

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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
~Walter Pater

The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar.
~Elizabeth McCracken (never closed since 16th century opening)

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
~Reinhold Niebuhr

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I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church ‒ things like that ‒ I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.
~Jimmy Carter

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
~Emil Cioran

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For every house is incomplete without Him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
~Christopher Smart

I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.
~Keegan-Michael Key

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Now I have to say I’m a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it’s a natural fact of life.
~David Chalmers

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.
~Wayne Dyer

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one’s religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
~D H Lawrence

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The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proved to have their counterparts in the world of fact.
~John Tyndall

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
~Avicenna

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But … the working scientist … is not consciously following any prescribed course of action, but feels complete freedom to utilize any method or device whatever which in the particular situation before him seems likely to yield the correct answer. … No one standing on the outside can predict what the individual scientist will do or what method he will follow.
~Percy Williams Bridgman

It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician ‒ but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is ‒ so that I have an advantage there.
~Alexander Graham Bell

It is not, of course, complete yet ‒ but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem ‒ and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas ‒ and friends converse with each other without leaving home.
~Alexander Graham Bell

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life’s work complete.
~Rudolf Diesel

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Scientists have this stigma of being guys or women in white lab coats with no sense of humor, no passion, devoid of all emotion, and that has been the complete opposite of the scientists I’ve met.
~Michael Pitt

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I want to know what dark matter and dark energy are comprised of. They remain a mystery, a complete mystery. No one is any closer to solving the problem than when these two things were discovered.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.
~Richard P Feynman

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.
~David Hilbert

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Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.
~Paul Nurse (geneticist, ex-CEO Francis Crick Institute)

The United States ended the space shuttle program in 2011, after the ISS was complete. We gave up a national treasure forever.
~Leroy Chiao

Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.
~George Gaylord Simpson

There is no complete theory of anything.
~Robert Anton Wilson

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MAC allowed me to have complete freedom on the collaborations—from the shades, the look-and-feel, to the campaign visuals. I have to admit that the visual aspect of the collection excites me most. For designers, we care about the photographs much more than a Ferrari.
~Philip Treacy

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It’s beyond TMI ‒ oversharing is not just too much information; it’s incessant sharing of non-information ‒ breaking news about your gluten-free diet complete with duck face selfies.
~Faith Salie

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
~Andrew Brown

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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
~Douglas Adams

I am the complete and utter definition of a Luddite.
~Graham McTavish (actor/author, Scot)

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I still like complete sentences that are grammatically correct without spelling errors. I don’t always achieve this, and it is irksome to read a message I have sent and discover errors. I know I often leave out words in e-mail, not by choice, but because of the way my brain works.
~Ray Tomlinson

One’s complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.
~William H Gass

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Online I see people committing ‘social media suicide’ all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you’re never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don’t warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic.
~Tim Ferriss

LinkedIn’s got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it’s like, ‘You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?’ People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.
~Jesse Schell

The thing that has been the coolest part about social media is that I get to connect with complete strangers from different parts of the universes… It’s just been nice to talk to real people. Even if it’s not in person.
~Gracie Abrams

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§ The Exercise:

life, fine art’s tattoo on time
first step to eternity
unbridled complexity
potent puzzle to complete
love, a diary entry
scripted universal need
secondary to succeed

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love’s endless boundless promise
fresh unbordered horizon
valid unbounded domain
gold’s untarnished perfection
sold: a complete abstraction

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hard luck run amuck
complete disregard
of assurances
who say it will end
of a certainty
one day or ‘nother
one way or t’other

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complete starter guide
do unto others:
as done unto you,
before done to you,
as you would to you,
silver iron gold
one rule echoes you

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complete the cycle
two twelve hour circles
one ends the work day
one to eat sleep play
life of black white grey
clock as oracle
foretold chronicle

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enter to exit
do the deed full on
doom’s broom ride to goal
finish the journey
to pop the balloon

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the doing of life
making the best, most of it
paying attention
knowing it for incomplete
nor wishing it otherwise

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submit in writing
in twenty five words or less
a complete answer
25 letters or less
not a no or yes, a guess

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complete retirement
having nothing to do but
what the moment wants

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trek the unmapped land
thus, complete the incomplete
some do call it love

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you’ve been doing.
~David Whyte

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Botanists have a plant-category which they call ‘Incompletae’; similarly one can say that there are incomplete and uncompleted people. These are the ones whose longings and strivings are out of proportion with what they actually do and what they achieve.
~Goethe

Never attempt to complete an incomplete person. You will be drained and exhausted. You can’t run for someone who refuses to even take a few steps. Stop trying to mend broken hearts. You will end up getting dragged into their void. You can only help a free person to fly. A free soul to soar.
~Urvashi Goja

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All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons.
~Marsha Sinetar Antara

In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that’s in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.
~Sam Abell

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Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.
~William Irwin Thompson

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
~Claude Levi-Strauss

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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
~Betty Friedan

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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
~Andre Maurois

The complete fool is half prophet.
~Yiddish proverb

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete. The virility of life and art lay in its possibilities for growth.
~Okakura Kakuzo, The Book Of Tea

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My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.
~Yami Gautam (Hindi actress)

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.
~Eckhart Tolle

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The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.
~Sylvia Boorstein

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
~Thomas Jefferson

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Honesty is always the best policy.
~George Washington

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
~Josh Billings

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Sleep is the secret of life! I must have a comfortable bed, a room at exactly 60 degrees, and complete darkness like a tomb to sleep. If I don’t get 10 hours, then I’m miserable and I make everyone around me miserable.
~Demis Roussos

I’ve always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that’s when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.
~Tony Dorsett

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
~W Somerset Maugham

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.
~Louise Mensch

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When I first worked in Zimbabwe, I was a complete novice. I was doing a study, and I continued to learn more and more through the years. And where I have learned most is in the village, from the communities.
~Ann Cotton

The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills. They represented complete freedom to make mistakes. The wilderness gave those rewards and penalties, for wise and foolish acts against which civilization has built a thousand buffers.
~Aldo Leopold

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Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.
~Brian Tracy

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.
~Robert Breault

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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
~Isaac Bashevis Singer

In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we’re going to discover is that like matter, time is composed of elemental, discrete types.
~Terence McKenna

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Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.
~Mother Teresa

Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.
~Confucius

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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
~Andre Gide

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
~Saint Augustine

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Knowledge, love, power‒there is the complete life.
~Henri Frederic Amiel

There is always an incompleteness in a complete day.
~Pragati Bajaji

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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
~Mahatma Gandhi

I’m a complete human being. I’m very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I’m a sociologist, anthropologist.
~Erykah Badu

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Ultimately when I gave up the use of motorized vehicles, I walked everywhere, from town to town, across states and two continents. When I stopped talking, I mean literally I stopped speaking. I took a complete vow of silence.
~John Francis

You haven’t partied until you’ve partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
~Cameron Diaz

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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you.
~Frederick Buechner

Diversity really means becoming complete as human beings ‒ all of us. We learn from each other. If you’re missing on that stage, we learn less. We all need to be on that stage.
~Juan Felipe Herrera

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Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.
~A Edward Newton

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
~Willa Cather

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