Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: clear

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Quoted In The Grove:
The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.
~Edward Gibbon

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
~Elizabeth I

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
~Oscar Wilde

EndQuote:
The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
~Argus Hamilton

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He that has light within his own clear breast / May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: / But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts / Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; / Himself his own dungeon.
~John Milton

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
~Hannah Arendt

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
~Margaret Fuller

AfterWords:
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
~Norman Mailer

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It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don’t regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn’t save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I’m not naive, and I don’t romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
~Chris Kyle

People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale.
~Mikhail Kalashnikov

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.
~Simon Conway Morris

AfterThought:
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
~Stephen Hawking

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When the meaning is unclear there is no meaning.
~Marty Rubin

Direction is only necessary when your destination is certain but the path to get there isn’t clear to you.
~Fela Durotoye

Just keep clear mind, go straight ahead, try, try, try for ten thousand years.
~Seungsahn

AndSo4th:
It’s a clear day Sonny, L A N D.
~Tyler Perry

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Next Exercise Prompt: twice

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You will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind.
~Roy T Bennett

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
~Dogen

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
~William Shakespeare

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
~Paulo Coelho

Be different so that people can see you clearly amongst the crowds.
~Mehmet Murat ildan

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An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision.
~Peter Senge

We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions.
~Leonard Mlodinow

The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.
~Ramana Maharshi

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When all thoughts / Are exhausted / I slip into the woods / And gather / A pile of shepherd’s purse. / Like the little stream / Making its way / Through the mossy crevices / I, too, quietly / Turn clear and transparent.
~Ryokan

The more of me I be, the clearer I can see.
~Rachel Archelaus

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.
~Angelina Jolie

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My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.
~Tracy Chevalier

Our mind is like a cloudy sky: in essence clear and pure, but overcast by clouds of delusions. Just as the thickest clouds can disperse, so, too, even the heaviest delusions can be removed from our mind.
~Kelsang Gyatso

We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!
~Mehmet Murat Ildan

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July is high burglary season because so many people leave town. To help avoid making that obvious, suspend your newspaper subscription and have your mail held. Another clear indication is if all your lights are off for an extended period. To fix that, you can buy a timer for about $30.
~Jean Chatzky

August was nearly over ‒ the month of apples and falling stars, the last care-free month for the school children. The days were not hot, but sunny and limpidly clear ‒ the first sign of advancing autumn.
~Victor Nekrasov

The clear light that belongs to October was making the landscape radiant.
~Florence Bone

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People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.
~Giambattista Vico

The inside of a house or apartment after decluttering has much in common with a Shinto shrine… a place where there are no unnecessary things, and our thoughts become clear.
~Marie Kondo

If you have a clear mind . . . you won’t have to search for direction. Direction will come to you.
~Phil Jackson

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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
~Robert A Heinlein

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too. (italics added ~Ed Note)
~Ulrich Beck

One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
~A C Benson

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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
~Alexander Pope

If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.
~Gautama Buddha

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
~Rabindranath Tagore

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The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
~Andrew Young

You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.
~Wallace D Wattles

What I know for sure is that it’s only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow. That doesn’t necessarily mean your process will necessarily lead you to wealth or fame. In fact, your dream may have nothing to do with tangible prosperity and everything to do with creating a life filled with joy, one with no regrets and a clear conscience. I’ve learned that wealth is a tool that gives you choices, but it can’t compensate for a life not fully lived and it certainly can’t create a sense of peace within you.
~Oprah Winfrey

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I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.
~Janis Ian

The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.
~Linda Vester

To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.
~Melvil Dewey (of library’s Dewey Decimal System)

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I’ve watched my duty, straight an’ true, an’ tried to do it well;
Part of the time kept heaven in view,
An’ part steered clear of hell.
~Will Carleton

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
~Gian Carlo Menotti

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.
~John Burns

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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
~Carl Jung

No wishes are silly, no dreams remain dreams, for those committed to clear and definitive goals.
~Maximillian Degenerez

It’s alright to do things the way you want. There is no map to life, no blueprints to survival, you can create your world day by day if you have a clear vision and an unwillingness to give up.
~John O’Callaghan

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We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
~H L Mencken

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
~Samuel Johnson

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Generally I don’t care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.
~Sebastian Vettel

I think being clear and assertive about what you’re comfortable with is vital. It can be a scary thing to do because we want people to like us.
~Aimee Lou Wood

I’ve got no qualms in making my feelings clear when I need to.
~Tana Ramsay

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Our recovery of hope ‒ full colour, three-dimensional, hard working, clear thinking, wildly radical, living hope ‒ is our key to liberation.
~Anne Bishop

Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.
~Paul Kingsnorth

Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.
~Paul Saffo

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Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.
~Mark Pincus

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
~Paul Eldridge

Without sense of purpose and clear direction of your life, you will only be building a fake brand of you.
~Bernard Kelvin Clive

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Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily.
~Sivananda

The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.
~Edward Gibbon

One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness‒simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.
~George Sand

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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
~Madame de Stael

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
~Jerome K Jerome

What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?
~Stephen Covey

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Posted From The Grove

Politics is dirty, and I don’t like to talk about dirty things… My conscience is clear.
~Johannes Heesters (Dutch actor)

People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life… Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.
~Eddie Vedder

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Let me be clear ‒ no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.
~Antonio Villaraigosa

The AAP from the beginning made it clear that they were about changing policy and not being a symbol of purity in a corrupt world.
~Abhijit Banerjee (Common Man’s Party, India)

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A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.
~Hugh Kingsmill

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
~Alan Watts

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You know, it’s very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev ‒ beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.
~Alexander Haig

In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.
~Dennis Kucinich

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
~Kim Il-sung

Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it’s pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
~Daniel H Pink

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Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned with delinquency prevention. Rather, it is designed to help all types of young men or women who suffer deficiencies of training or opportunity which keep them unemployed.
~Robert Kennedy

F-CKUPS ANONYMOUS (15:01) fiction, to be seen without political color

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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
~Joseph Conrad

Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.
~Denis Waitley

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Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
~Paul Eldridge

What differentiates me from the poll truthers of 2012, I think, is that I don’t stay on course when it’s clear I’m headed for an iceberg.
~Harry Enten (CNN)

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.
~Jurgen Habermas (Ger philosopher)

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
~Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

In the real world, answers may not be clear cut. There will be messy choices, and you’re not going to be able to construct a policy response in a neat and tidy way. Being able to listen to other people, even as you stay true to your principles, that’s how you actually succeed.
~Jake Sullivan

The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
~P J O’Rourke (10th Commandment: Thou shalt not covet ~AI)

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Let everyone regulate his conduct… by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.
~William Wilberforce

Well, there’s been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can’t continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we’ve had.
~Condoleezza Rice

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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
~Rowan Atkinson

All too frequently, the knee jerk reaction to tragedies by the media and chattering class is to move to restrict our rights… Our founding documents make it clear that our inalienable rights come from God and that the job of the government is to ensure and protect those God-given rights.
~Dave Brat

The British are a people who are generally happy, under normal circumstances, to trust politicians to tell us the truth and to leave them to run the country as we get on with our lives. But we reserve the right, always, to make it clear that they are our servants, not our masters, and, when necessary, we can and will take charge.
~Gina Miller

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
~Herodotus

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In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.
~Hillary Clinton

In the aftermath of September 11, it has been made clear to us that our foreign policy can no longer afford to narrowly focus on short-term benefits. For our nation’s long-term security, we must be active in promoting American values abroad through our foreign policy.
~Sam Brownback

At the rate we’re going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It’s going to be pretty violent.
~Edward James Olmos

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Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don’t have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.
~Janet Napolitano

Demonstrations must be dignified and nonviolent, as the overwhelming protests in Ferguson and Staten Island have been. Do not confuse anarchists who don’t want the system to work and thugs who want to exploit a situation with the majority who from day one have operated with impeccable nonviolence and clear goals.
~Al Sharpton

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I have established the republic. But today it is not clear whether the form of government is a republic, a dictatorship, or personal rule.
~Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

My position on democracy is really clear. Any attempt to overthrow the country is a betrayal to our unity and is treason.
~Muhammed Fethullah Gülen (Turkish Muslim scholar)

I think most people accept that it is necessary to have some surveillance in a democratic society. I think most people accept that it’s important to have limits and clear safeguards on that.
~Keir Starmer

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It’s not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.
~Ross Douthat

I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
~Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Americans’ position is clear: we promote democracy.
~Louis Susman

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There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn’t completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.
~Steven Pinker

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
~Milton Friedman

Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.
~Arthur C Brooks (American Enterprise Inst)

I’ve been pretty clear about saying that I think that the No. 1 threat to our national security is our debt. And we’ve got to get our arms around that and head it in another ‒ head it in the right direction ‒ that we have to pay our fair share of this.
~Michael Mullen (Adm, Chair Joint Chiefs of Staff)

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The referendum was clear: the British people voted to leave the single market and to take back control of our borders.
~Nigel Farage (Brit MP)

It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It’s clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom.
~Sumner Redstone

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I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.
~Greta Thunburg

If there is one thing BP’s ‘watery improv act’ made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
~Naomi Klein

The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
~Ban Ki-moon

Renewable energy is a clear winner when it comes to boosting the economy and creating jobs.
~Tom Steyer

Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We’ve made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
~Adam Kinzinger

I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn’t make it clear.
~James Hansen

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The pResident’s Corner

It would be irresponsible as a collector of time-tested thoughts and courageous new thinking, to ignore history’s example and possible need. The mix of real and imagined quotes below are not meant to be taken seriously, however, or to represent any current situation except as warning, fantastical theater, or comic relief.
~Ed Note

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Trump’s America means many things, but this much is clear it means toxic white masculinity is not just permitted, it’s fully empowered ‒ and getting worse.
~Shaun King

Louis Fourteen, heard of him, ‘divine right of kings’. Good stuff, but you’re talking treason when you even think of me and that Sixteen guy in the same breath. That’s ₿ʊ₤ḸՖ♯¡╦!
~T Rumpledthinskin

Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one level of cruelty‒he builds to the next. By depersonalizing his partner, the abuser protects himself from the natural human emotions of guilt and empathy, so that he can sleep at night with a clear conscience. He distances himself so far from her humanity that her feelings no longer count, or simply cease to exist.
~Lundy Bancroft

Let’s be very clear: Strong men ‒ men who are truly role models ‒ don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
~Michelle Obama

Politicians talk about bringing people together? ₿ʊ₤ḸՖ♯¡╦! Politicians gotta be different by dividing not uniting. You gotta trash the garbage to earn your voters. That’s what politics is about! Clear as a cloud on a foggy day, dumbass.
~DT Rump

Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it’s not always that clear.
~Bob Morley

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It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It’s a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English.
~Stephanie Mills

Sometimes, you have to step back in order to have a clear view, and I recognize I was going down the wrong path with Trump.
~Omarosa Manigault Newman

Moral compass, what’s moral compass got to do with it? It’s clear to me there’s no Decline and Fall of this grate country belonging to me… to us. I’d say it’s about Recline in Full, and about time. Nothing immoral to it. We believe in God. We prey all the time.
~St Rumpet

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for ‒ because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
~Peter Marshall

Don’t matter how things got bad. Not my fault. That little bitty country should’ve known not to fight back. Now we got supposed ‘citizens’ marching, blocking the streets. Don’t matter their unarmed. This is our grate big beautiful America, the peek of civilization in all the world’s history [about me], and they must obey this country’s sacred laws! Or they will be stopped! It’s clear as the ears on my face, for their own protection, we need to keep them from being shot. And that’s why we need this martial law thing.
~DT Rump

The choice could not be more clear. Americans can elect someone who literally personifies the failed establishment in Washington, D.C., or we can choose a leader who will fight every day to Make America Great Again.
~Mike Pence

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The drama of any election night often obscures the banal reality behind voting. Even when winners and losers are clear, it takes time to count ballots. The more people in a state, county, or locality, the longer the process.
~Jamelle Bouie

But I’ve been very clear in this campaign ‒ I don’t believe the party should have a position on abortion.
~Stephen Harper (ex-PM, Canada)

Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.
~Adam Cohen

By creating a clear framework for the redistricting process, we help increase the transparency and accountability needed to ensure the voices of citizens are better represented.
~Laphonza Butler

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The NATO treaty [Article IV] is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them.
~James G Stavridis

After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates ‒ but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement.
~Timothy Garton Ash

We have a great, positive relationship with Mexico. The Tijuana mayor crosses into San Diego, we talk all the time and vice verses. It’s about neighbors working together, and that’s my very clear message about a bi-national region that works. That’s a competitive advantage.
~Kevin Faulconer (Rep Mayor, San Diego)

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We need to secure our border. We need to make sure there is a path to citizenship for those who are here. And we need to clear rules of the road for those who want to migrate to this country.
~Josh Shapiro (Gov, Penn)

Those who do not put clear limits on migration will soon start to feel like strangers in their own land.
~Sebastian Kurz (ex-Chanc, Austria)

The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state’s Jewish identity. The refugees’ place is not among us, and the initiative to transfer them to Australia is the right and just solution.
~Danny Danon

For me, it is becoming increasingly clear that the price of unregulated globalisation, mass immigration and the free movement of labour is paid for by the lower classes.
~Mette Frederiksen

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.
~Louis D Brandeis (USSCJ)

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I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.
~John Henrik Clarke

History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
~Sabine Baring-Gould

We are clear that all lives matter, but we live in a world where that’s not actually happening in practice. So if we want to get to the place where all lives matter, then we have to make sure that black lives matter, too.
~Alicia Garza

The idea that humanity is divided into these separate and distinct and disparate groups with clear boundaries has been disproven by science a long time ago, decades ago. Humanity really is more of a continuum, and that people belong on the same continuum and there are no clear breaks between these so-called races.
~Alex Tizon

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.
~Maya Angelou

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It was clear to me as a civil rights leader in the ’60s that unless we put the social and economic underpinnings beneath the political and the civil rights, we wouldn’t go anywhere.
~Marian Wright Edelman

Malcolm X had a clear vision and an understanding that we were ‒ that he was a part of a broad freedom struggle. As his vision became more internationalist and pan-African, as he began, especially in 1964, after seeing the example of anti-colonial revolutions abroad and began to articulate and incorporate a socialist analysis economically into his program, he clearly became a threat to the US state.
~Manning Marable

If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.
~Richard V Allen (ex-Nat Security Adv, Reagan)

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It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
~Alice Walker

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.
~Lena Horne

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It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.
~Amos Oz

Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.
~Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (6th Pres, Iran)

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It’s clear to me that one can’t be Jewish without Israel. Religious or non-religious, Zionist or non-Zionist, Ashkenazi or Sephardic ‒ all these will not exist without Israel.
~Elie Wiesel

We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is clear: the Jews invented it to endure the coherence, cohesion and existence of their small, threatened people.
~Michel Onfray

In the Middle East, it is clear that peace will never be reached without solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A two-state solution must be found and enforced.
~Ahmed Zewail

Let me be clear: I unequivocally support a two-state solution as the path to resolution of the Israel and Palestinian conflict, with Israel as the national homeland for the Jewish people. Moreover, I reject the demonization and de-legitimization of Israel represented by the BDS narrative and campaign.
~Stacey Abrams

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
~Queen Elizabeth II

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Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to the law, but to the facts. In countless litigations, the law Is so clear that judges have no discretion.
~Benjamin N Cardozo

It’s absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may ‒ may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it’s clear that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.
~Antonin Scalia (USSCJ)

With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial ‒ and a greater willingness to overturn convictions when it becomes clear that a confession was untrue.
~Adam Cohen

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…let’s be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating incentives instead to shut the revolving door into prison.
~Kamala Harris

From the day I got out, it was an evolutionary process. I was sick for, like, two years ‒ that’s the best way I can describe what was happening with me. But as time went by and I finished law school, it became clear to me that I needed a platform.
~Isaac Wright Jr (following a false conviction)

I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. As I worked, physical and mental fatigue set in and I was unable to operate to the maximum of my intellectual ability. But in a single cell in prison, I had time to think. I had a clear view of my past and present, and I found that my past left much to be desired, both in regard to my relations with other humans and in developing personal worth.
~Nelson Mandela

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Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.
~Marquis de Lafayette

The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.
~Roxane Gay

It is clear that too many bankers think that laws are for the little people.
~Emily Thornberry

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.
~Sandra Day O’Connor (USSCJ)

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It’s very clear that Louisiana is gonna be voting for Republicans for statewide elections going forward because that’s just where we are as a state.
~John Fleming

In local government, it’s very clear to your customers ‒ your citizens ‒ whether or not you’re delivering. Either that pothole gets filled in, or it doesn’t. The results are very much on display, and that creates a very healthy pressure to innovate.
~Pete Buttigieg

Let me be clear ‒ I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice ‒ including the elderly and persons with disabilities ‒ and their families ‒ who rely on the state for their care.
~Kathleen Blanco

I’m not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.
~Tom Hayden (’60s activist)

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Labour’s priorities are clear: jobs and the economy must come first; not party interests or ideological fantasies.
~Keir Starmer

As shadow foreign secretary, I have been as clear in my support for the government when it does something we agree with as I am in highlighting that which we oppose.
~Douglas Alexander

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America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
~George W Bush

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program.
~William J Clinton

I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war.
~Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (ex-PM, Spain)

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We’ve made it very clear that when Iranian proxies that are directed by Iran attack Americans, that we’re going to hold the Iranians responsible.
~Robert C O’Brien (security advisor)

Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.
~Benjamin Netanyahu

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With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made.
~Hideki Tojo (PM, Japan 1941-1944)

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.
~Hideki Tojo

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What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.
~Julian Assange (Aussie founder, WikiLeaks)

Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America’s involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
~Zbigniew Brzezinski (Sec State, Clinton)

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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
~Adam McKay

Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.
~William Lyon Mackenzie King

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Than Shwe ordered the confiscation of all cell phones and laptops and computers so no reportage could come out of Burma. It seemed clear that a demon, something diabolical, rather than something compassionate and human was in charge of Burma.
~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.
~Pol Pot (Cambodian, killed 2 million of his own)

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Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the nobility of the cause are invigorating. To be clear, I’m not talking about the killing and the death; rather, the sense of purpose that pervades every action, reaction, and outcome.
~Pete Hegseth

As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
~Adam Hochschild

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Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush.
~John Gibbon

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~Sharka Bosakova: Clear Skies (0:49) glowering model, white dress, green grass, blue skies ‒ a visual

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~Jason Hanson: Ex-CIA Explains How to Clear a Room by Yourself (3:37) should the occasion arise

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~Monty Python: Burglar (0:50) …just because

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People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them
~Brian Tracy

Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.
~Brian Tracy

All good performance starts with clear goals.
~Ken Blanchard

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An organization is great if you have a clear vision to be able to make it powerful. If you don’t, an organization can kind of sap energy that could go elsewhere.
~Ben Wikler (political advisor)

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don’t need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
~W Clement Stone (philanthropic billionaire)

Develop a clear vision for your organization. Where do you want to be in five years?
~Brian Tracy (motivational speaker)

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.
~Donald Rumsfeld (Sec Defense under Ford)

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A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day’s a groat a year
~Benjamin Franklin

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
~A P J Abdul Kalam

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Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny should take a few pointers from the mutual-fund industry. All three are trying to pull off elaborate hoaxes. But while Santa and the bunny suffer the derision of eight year olds everywhere, actively-managed stock funds still have an ardent following among otherwise clear-thinking adults. This continued loyalty amazes me. Reams of statistics prove that most of the fund industry’s stock pickers fail to beat the market.
~Jonathan Clements

It should be clear that modern fractional reserve banking is a shell game, a Ponzi scheme, a fraud in which fake warehouse receipts are issued and circulate as equivalent to the cash supposedly represented by those receipts.
~Murray Rothbard

In early 2005, I really studied the prospectuses of these mortgage pools that were tranched out into different-rated slices rated by agencies like S&P and Moody’s. They had names like Park Place and People’s Choice. It was clear to me that many of the buyers of these repackaged subprime mortgages were doing little analysis.
~Michael Burry

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It’s clear to me when you do private equity well, you’re making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more profitable. That success means our investors ‒ such as public pension funds ‒ benefit, which contributes to the economic wealth of society.
~David Rubenstein

Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear ‒fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors.
~Arthur Levitt

When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.
~Mark V Hurd (CEO Oracle)

As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets.
~Mohamed El-Erian

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Success is the result of clear goal, unshakable confidence, proper planning, enthusiastic ACTION and consistent persistence.
~James Caan (actor)

The best way to succeed is to have a specific Intent, a clear Vision, a plan of Action, and the ability to maintain Clarity. Those are the Four Pillars of Success. It never fails!
~Steve Maraboli (inspirationalist)

Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for ‒ not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.
~Douglas Leone (venture capitalist)

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Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. Quick one-on-ones can be extremely effective. I am talking about those hour-long recurring meetings, devoid of a clear agenda, and attended by many. I dread them.
~Sebastian Thrun

It’s very refreshing to go away and take a break, to clear your head, and just get into something else.
~Francois Nars (cosmetics)

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I’m pretty transparent and clear about things. The things I do and the way I act are no different than I would expect of others. Mostly it’s about being very clear about what we are trying to do and communicating a lot and showing absolute consistency and integrity about what I say and do.
~Diane Greene (VMware, Google)

What makes Samsung so mysterious is that it’s not altogether clear who leads the company or what its leaders do. The company follows an avowedly Confucian model of consensus-driven decision-making, values bone-crushingly hard work, and shows tremendous deference to the founding Lee family, despite its lack of a controlling interest in its shares.
~Adam Lashinsky

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It became clear I wanted to be a development economist. I mean, I said I wanted to work on the economics of poor countries. And I’d actually say that I don’t think that was so much about narrowing the gap as about increasing their incomes, which means economic growth, which is really my prime interest.
~James Mirrlees

Regional developers have a clear head start in their home communities. They have been there longer and understand their market. As a result, these markets are, in fact, more competitive than those in Manila.
~Henry Sy

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If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker’s wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA’s true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.
~Stephen F Lynch

We look at the number of engineers coming out of India; we look at the growth of the economy, and it’s clear that India is a place we want to be.
~Douglas Leone

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Create a list of your intentions for your work. Then research available internships and/or companies that you are attracted to based on that personal North Star. Once that is clear, you begin outreach to people connected to industries you’re passionate and/or curious about.
~Caroline Ghosn

I think as a company, if you can get two things right–having a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuff–then you can do pretty well.
~Mark Zuckerberg

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I’ve had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They’re gaining markets the old-fashioned way ‒ they’re buying them.
~Kent Conrad

When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.
~Samantha Power

In a period of economic downturn, the overwhelming instinct is to pare back, cut costs, and lay off. If you do that, do so with your strategy in mind. The worst mistake is to cut across the board. Instead, reconnect and recommit to a clear strategy that will distinguish yourself from others.
~Michael Porter

Our age is before all things a practical one. It demands of us all clear and tangible results of our work.
~Theodor Svedberg

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The Facebook of 2011, the Twitter of 2011 and the Google of 2011 are all understood to be in need of reinvention for a mobile-centric world with no clear strategy to make revenue.
~Keith Teare

We need to come up with use cases for this technology that drive clear benefits for individuals and institutions ‒ these are our customers. Too often we see bitcoin and blockchain technologies as solutions in search of a problem. We don’t just need these systems to be technically better than the alternatives ‒ we need them to be more user-friendly.
~Abigail Johnson

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Unless you’re willing to move hundreds of miles away or take a huge pay cut to restart your career from scratch, a noncompete can effectively lock you into a job. That’s a clear restriction of individual liberty.
~Lina Khan

I’ve made it very clear that the government should get out of the business of trying to affect the markets, of trying to pick winners and losers.
~Andrew Scheer

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I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.
~Lin Yutang

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Hire people who are smarter than you, and don’t be afraid to work with them as partners. Make it clear that you plan to learn from them, not just the other way around. The right, smart, motivated people respond very well to that approach, particularly coming from a younger manager like I am.
~Lynn Jurich

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
~Steve Jobs

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It’s not great if someone gives you sort of bland praise without giving you clear direction and say, “This is good, let’s try it like this.” I have worked with someone who seemed quite inarticulate and just would say, “That’s good, that’s good.” That’s very frustrating because ‒ it’s nice to know something is good but you know it can always change.
~Ralph Fiennes

Leaders set a very clear path every day, in a thousand different ways, of what the people must attend to, inhibit, and keep it current in front of them.
~Henry Cloud

Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear…
~Diane Von Furstenberg

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.
~Claude Taylor

Developing excellent COMMUNICATION skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can’t get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn’t even matter.
~Gil Amelio

Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.
~Marcus Buckingham

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You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.
~Alex Morrison

Clarity is the secret. Clarity is the weapon. Make it clear. See it happening. Make it clear. See it becoming.
~Aisha S Kingu

The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
~Irene Rosenfeld

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It feels great to have your own views reflected back to you, and you feel so right, but actually it’s very dangerous. Because to make good decisions, you need to have a clear view of what all the options are.
~Eli Pariser

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.
~Jocko Willink

You have to develop a certain healthy distance to allow you to keep a clear head, to be able to analyse the situation, lead your team, and move forward with them, because there are times if I’m not careful… if you get too involved, it will consume you; it will consume you, and you will not be good to your team; the issues you are dealing with.
~Kofi Annan (ex-Sec Gen, UN)

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Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.
~Steve Pavlina

Despite his unimpressive appearance and manner, he was a brilliant fellow with a crystal-clear mind…. It was just that, when it came time for him to act like an executive, he was like a great many other people; when the time comes to make decisions, they have difficulty doing it.
~Harry S Truman (of Gen George Marshall)

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Have a defined mission with clear goals and timelines. I still trust the staff, with as little oversight as possible. Do things to show them that their time is as valuable to you as it is to them. Don’t be afraid to ‘fly solo.’
~Pete Olson

In crisis times, it’s actually not more difficult to motivate your staff, because everyone gets much more focused on how they control their own economic destiny. So, what you do is you have clear communication, which is always a good leadership technique, and you talk about how you can build something good and strong in the future, and how you can work together in order to do that.
~Reid Hoffman

Sharing a clear and concise vision spawns a sense of purpose and direction. It attracts success toward you and helps you build an expanding team.
~Farshad Asl

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Innovations, IT technologies, privatisation ‒ it is all clear. We’ve conquered all of them. But everything is, very simply, one should get undressed and work.
~Alexander Lukashenko (in a Freudian slip)

With random urinalysis, there’s a clear choice ‒ either get high or go to jail.
~Brian Baird (Freudian?)

It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can’t quite follow you.
~Flann O’Brien

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The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
~James Cash Penney

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
~Stephen Covey

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You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.
~Stefano Gabbana

If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.
~Ben Horowitz

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All sport… is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
~Spiro T Agnew

The situation with Anders Frisk [soccer referee] is clear: he was threatened by the supporters of Chelsea, and he retired because he was in fear. This is serious.
~Frank Rijkaard

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.
~Tiki Barber (NFL)

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He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.
~Lois Lowry (on sledding)

When lorry drivers come up behind me and I’m cycling, innocently keeping to my side of the road, and they decide because they are so big, and their lorry is so powerful, and they just want to clear me out of the road, and they hoot aggressively, then I do see red a bit. I do.
~Boris Johnson (ex-PM, UK)

Game design is a funny thing. There are people out there who are really good at it, but it’s not clear that they can teach it. It’s a very intuitive process. It’s an art.
~Luis von Ahn

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Just before a game, I try to keep a clear mind so that I can focus better. I’m the kind of person who plays fast and relies a lot on intuition, so being at peace with myself is vital. Saying my daily prayers helps me achieve this heightened state of mind.
~Viswanathan Anand (chess grandmaster)

I love chess very much. I love the game, the challenges. I could motivate myself as I was curious about how to improve every game. In chess, it’s very clear that if you make a mistake you are punished. If you play well, you win.
~Judit Polgar

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Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience ‒ nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime.
~Carroll Smith (motor sports)

To be clear, I normally climb with a rope and partner. Free-soloing makes up only a small percentage of my total climbing. But when I do solo, I manage the risk through careful preparation. I don’t solo anything unless I’m sure I can do it.
~Alex Honnold

Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself.
~Marianne Williamson

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To find a clear identity for the team ‒ that is not about buying certain players for a lot of money. It is about getting players who want to play the right way.
~Carlo Ancelotti

I think that’s why I coach.. I used to get up early every morning with a clear goal in mind of how fast I was going to be. When I stopped rowing, there was a void in my daily routine. Now I go to bed at night and get up morning with a clear goal in mind of how fast you are going to be.
~Christopher Allsopp

I can teach many sports, but obviously, tennis is the one. When you do other sports, you see things from different perspectives: different footwork drills, body positions, angles and geometry. All that stuff is helpful, and so when I do other sports, I can see things, because once you know one sport, then the other sport becomes more clear.
~Martina Navratilova

Zidane transmits a very clear idea to the players. He doesn’t need to give a 20 minute motivational talk, he doesn’t need it. With his presence alone, he achieves what he wants ‒ his personality is synonymous with success.
~Toni Kroos

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I want to make it clear, I’m not whining, and the Celtics owe me nothing. But having said that, you would think at least I would have a conversation about a coaching job, since that’s what I want to do.
~Robert Parish

It’s true that time is against me, and I am closer to hanging up my boots, but one thing I have clear is that I will be involved in football. I don’t know how, but I will be related to football. It’s my life.
~Andres Iniesta (soccer)

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I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.
~Walter Hagen (PGA)

If comic ambiguity may be allowed: it remains unclear whether Mr Hagen is referring to the right club to play on the course, the night club to play in after-hours, or the right club to play for, whatever the offer.
~Ed Note

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If I haven’t made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.
~John Thorn (Official historian, MLB)

*On the shift [growing pains] from “gentlemanly” amateurism to a “roughhouse” business model, and the resulting corruption, gambling, and labor disputes that dominated the late 19th-century
~Google AI

I keep my eys clear and I hit ’em where they ain’t.
~”Wee Willie” Keeler (played 1892‒1910)

You know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a really clear day, looking down from many miles up, you can see the little baseball diamonds everywhere? And every time I see a baseball diamond my heart goes out to it. And I think somewhere down there‒ I don’t see any houses, I can hardly see any roads‒ but I know that people down there are playing the game we all love.
~Donald Hall

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Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game ‒ and life ‒ will take care of itself.
~Phil Jackson

I love playing basketball because you could be having a rough day in your life, and while you’re on the court it gives you a clear mind. I’m not worried about anything. I’m there just playing freely and I go out there all and I have fun.
~Derrick Rose

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Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.
~Joan Van Ark

If you’re going to while away the years, it’s far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life.
~Haruki Murakami

Running is how I clear my head and find my center again.
~Summer Sanders

When you get a good workout in, you feel good for the rest of the day. It helps clear the mind.
~Reggie Miller

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I’ve never stopped being Argentine, and I’ve never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, even though I left there. I’ve been clear about this since I was very young, and I never wanted to change. Barcelona is my home because both the club and the people here have given me everything, but I won’t stop being Argentine.
~Lionel Messi

Tell everyone loud and clear, I have as much enthusiasm for leaving Madrid as I do for dying.
~Keylor Navas (of Real Madrid)

A lot of the time I am told to clear the ball, kick it out, ‘degager le ballon‘ they shout, but I can’t do that and if I have to do that then it feels like a defeat for me. I don’t know how to do it. I never get rid of the ball that way and when I am watching TV and I see players who do get rid of the ball then I don’t accept it.
~Marco Verratti

I think it’s important to make clear, you know, that the problem with American soccer… it isn’t talent.
~Christian Pulisic

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Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.
~Nat Hentoff

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
~Boris Becker

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Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five feet of water, going to surf, and there was this big ol’ freakin’ leopard shark… I’m looking at him and I’m thinking, ‘OK, he won’t hurt me.’
~Timothy Olyphant

I dream of diving in two places where I have not been yet. One is Antarctica, because of its crystal clear waters and amazing fauna, in addition to the ice cathedrals. The other is the Arctic, where I’d like to see the northernmost kelp forests.
~Enric Sala

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It was very clear I wasn’t giving my all in the past ‒ not even close.
~Drew McIntyre (WWE)

A lot of the work I did with WWE had very strong comic book ties that were more than just a wink at the audience. There was a period of time when I had a clear protective face mask and a hood over my head that correlated with Doctor Doom.
~Cody Rhodes

I clear my mind; I don’t think about the pressure before a fight. I focus on going in the cage and being successful while doing my job.
~Jose Aldo

Karate-do strives internally to train the mind to develop a clear conscience, enabling one to face the world honestly, while externally developing strength to the point where one may overcome even ferocious wild animals. Mind and technique become one in true karate.
~Gichin Funakoshi

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Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of any international event.
~Richard Attias

We have two issues ‒ not enough young girls starting in karting at a young age and no clear role model. Sometimes you just have to see it to believe it.
~Susie Wolff

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I had a clear vision of myself winning the Mr. Universe contest. It was a very spiritual thing, in a way, because I had such faith in the route, the path, that there was never a question in my mind that I would make it.
~Arnold Schwarzenegger

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
~Buddha

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A couple of years ago, right before I made ‘Down to You,’ there was a moment when I questioned what I was doing and if it meant anything. I felt like I wasn’t accomplishing anything, that the goals I’d set were silly goals. Finally, I realized I just loved acting. It was a very clear moment, and my whole life changed then.
~Freddie Prinze, Jr

I’m looking at everything with a clear eye and an attitude of acceptance rather than skepticism. I realized, this isn’t a career ‒ this is my life. This is what I do. It doesn’t matter what the size of the role is. It matter that you’re enjoying yourself. And I’m loving it.
~Jake Busey

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My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that I was an actor, even from 4 years old. I’ve never waited a table. I taught some ‒ I’ll teach classes in improv or Shakespeare, but there’s some motor in me that needs to do that.
~John Michael Higgins

I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way ‒ show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly ‒ and then I completely commit to play acting.
~Jane Elliot

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I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.
~David Boreanaz

Whether people agree or disagree with the decisions an actor makes after their Disney tenure, every alum has a clear vision of how they want their career to pan out.
~Cameron BoyceIf

There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.
~Dick Morris

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One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.
~James Brady

Without that thick skin and a clear vision of what it is you want to do, what it is you know you want to do, it can be really easy to get out here and get lost and swept away in whatever is going on. You really have to be steadfast in the mind for sure.
~Stephen Boss (dance)

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For me, the best characters are the ones that feel fully formed inside and out, so I try to have a very clear vision of exactly what they would wear, top to bottom, who they are, what their backstory is, what their family situation is, who are their friends, just creating as much of a three-dimensional character [as possible]. Because I think you could do a very broad character, but as long as there’s some emotional truth to them you can get away with really crazy things.
~Nick Kroll

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
~George Bernard Shaw

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Indian films do well in Pakistan. Pakistani artists do well in India. The signal has always been clear that people on both sides of the fence are not interested in the hatred.
~Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

My dad was clear that it was important to start the journey from scratch and give auditions. I used to stand in long queues, where a hundred people would stand ahead of me… One thing I knew, that I must be focused on whatever I did. And that helped me to keep striving.
~Sunny Singh (Hindi actor)

I think actors have to have clear goals in term of fitness, I think it is very important. I did yoga very seriously and I think that is a wonderful exercise. I take tennis lessons, and I swim a lot.
~Rosamund Pike

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it… its appeal is permanent.
~Loretta Young

The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.
~Alfred Lunt

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He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action.
~Ryan Reynolds (speaking of John Krasinski in If)

In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.
~Mike Figgis

Obviously, if a director doesn’t communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.
~Tom Skerritt

I started doing documentaries in the first place because of the war. I always wanted to do feature films, and I studied directing when the war started, so I was working with actors before, in film and in theater. So I think it’s easy to work with actors when you have a script that is clear, when they know what and why they are doing it.
~Danis Tanovic

I try to just save a fresh, clear head for whoever I’m working with, so hopefully it’s helpful that there’s someone who doesn’t have to sit in the editing room for 12 hours a day, and who’s blinded by the massive footage and options that they have.
~Judd Apatow

Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.
~Peter Berg (director/producer)

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‘The White Ribbon‘ had to be in German because of the subject matter, that was clear. But in the case of ‘Amour,’ it could have taken place in any country.
~Michael Haneke

I was watching the Danish version of ‘The Killing’ when I got the audition for ‘The Fall,’ and I loved it; it was so original. I approached ‘The Fall‘ with that in mind. I’d no problem with the violence ‒ it was very clear from the script how horrifying the crimes were and that had to be shown, without going to extremes.
~Laura Donnelly

Most apocalyptic fiction makes it very clear that it’s the end of the world. But ‘Bird Box‘ hasn’t convinced me of that. Is ‘Bird Box‘ instead a suburban neurotic nightmare? I don’t think so. But it’s fun to consider.
~Josh Malerman

One of the things I’ve discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years. When I look at my favorite films, the Frank Capra – even Scorsese, even ‘Goodfellas,’ what makes that movie so remarkable is there’s enchantment in their world.
~David O Russell

I would like to do all kind of movies, but it all depends on the producer. The director, the actor, and the producer must like it, and they must be clear about it.
~Prabhu Deva (choreographer/director)

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~Corey Rosen: Keep Clear (2:06) silly fun

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~Ben Rock: Clear (1:17) stoopid fun

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~Omeleto Drama: Clear Day (13:52) …it was never the same after

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I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. I think I always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give ‘em what they never knew they wanted.
~Diana Vreeland

It’s refreshing, if you ask me, to have lengthy conversations with clear, brilliant minds about books, art, and what ought to happen next and how. I love it.
~Josh Malerman

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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
~James Thurber

Wit,–the pupil of the soul’s clear eye.
~Sir John Davies

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
~Robert Collier

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You have to go as hard as you possibly can, or it’s going to be weak. Whenever I find myself not committing fully to a character, it’s not as funny. It doesn’t have that clear point of view, and you find yourself wandering all over the place, whereas committed characters make strong choices that are clear to the audience.
~Lauren Lapkus

A lot of shows, things will just simmer and simmer and maybe never explode into the open, or only risk exploding into the open when it’s clear that the series has gotten to its endgame. So I’m always impressed ‒ but not surprised ‒ when ‘Scandal‘ just completely goes for it.
~Joshua Malina

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.
~Hunter Austin

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It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality.
~Piet Mondrian

If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.
~Billy Collins

It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.
~Godfrey Reggio

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The creative process is probably closest to problem solving, but it differs from it in a number of ways. In problem solving the immediate goal is a specific one … in the creative process there is no such clear goal.
~Anne Roe

In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In a delta there is no clear direction but there may be many choices. The best we can do is to enjoy the choices that we have and to be genuinely and creatively eclectic.
~Robert Bateman

Whatever you can think, you can create; just have a very clear vision… Once you have your snapshot, work on filling in the blanks to get to that place.
~Sara Blakely

In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.
~Grace Jones

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There is no need to pose for anything ‒ you just walk straight and strong and be clear. We are all born with unique characteristics and we have to stick to that. Yes, use the tools to enhance it, but we shouldn’t be hiding behind them. That’s what style is about.
~Bibhu Mohapatra (fashion designer)

When it comes to designing your first apartment, I think people get overwhelmed and end up collecting pieces that don’t always mesh well together because they don’t have a clear vision. Take your time and use tools that can help inspire and guide you through the process.
~Karlie Kloss

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual… bad design is stupidity made visible
~Edward Tufte

Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent… can stifle creativity.
~Karl Lagerfeld

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I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. I also got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography.
~Lee Friedlander

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It’s whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.
~Martin Parr

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When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
~Pablo Picasso

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I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myself. That took some work, but because of it I can now say no to other people with a clear conscience.
~Beth Ditto

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I am very warm and open with my staff. I have a small group that works directly for me, my law clerks and my assistants, and we do fun things together. I try to be a nurturer in that sense. But I also ensure that we are doing the work necessary to lay out my opinions in a clear and thorough fashion.
~Ketanji Brown Jackson (USSCJ)

It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn’t fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it’s been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.
~Ellen Barkin

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I’ve managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.
~Leonardo DiCaprio

I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that’s what I do.
~Kyle Chandler

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I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.
~Sonia Sotomayor (USSCJ)

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there’s nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There’s a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.
~Hugh Leonard (Irish playwright)

Some kind of clutter is difficult ‒ letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers ‒ but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I’m always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.
~Gretchen Rubin (author, motivation/inspiration)

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can’t understand what they are saying. It’s a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.
~Brian Wilson (Beach Boys)

In my bedroom, I have my yoga mat and the puppets I’ve made over the years, and because I’m very into smells, I have some burned sage on my bedside to help clear my head.
~Lucas Hedges (actor)

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
~Anselm Kiefer (painter/sculptor)

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I’ve tried and failed a lot. But I’ve also tried to be really clear about my brand. It is who I am. I’m a mum, I’m a wife, I’m 44 and from the Midwest.
~Cindy Crawford

I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!
~Katy Perry

You’ve got to believe in yourself, you’ve got to have a very clear vision, and you’ve got have the fire in the belly and go out and not be shy with working because it takes a lot of work.
~Arnold Schwarzenegger

It doesn’t matter where you came from, it doesn’t matter how poor you are, it doesn’t matter where your family was. It all doesn’t matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn.
~Brian Tracy

I’ve always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do.
~Noomi Rapace

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end
~Claude M Bristol

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Everyone wants to be immortal. Few are. Margaret Thatcher is. Why? Because her values are timeless, eternal. Tap anyone on the shoulder anywhere in the world, and ask what Mrs Thatcher believed in, and they will tell you. They can give a clear answer to what she ‘stood for.’
~Maurice Saatchi

Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it’s like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.
~Jason Schwartzman

David Ben-Gurion understood that the public’s trust is given to a leader in order to lead, determine clear goals and make difficult decisions. The fate of the people and the good of the state guided him, not polls, media treatment or measures of prestige.
~Ariel Sharon

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln’s title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
~Matthew Simpson

Over the years I’ve tried to be clear about the things that are important in life, the things that matter, and I’ve tried to pursue them, and, I’ve had a certain sense of ‘stickability,’ hanging in there, and I suppose that’s me.
~Peter Hollingworth (ex-Gov‒Gen, Australia)

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Music critics have made it quite clear that any composer who ever contributed a four-bar jingle to a film was to be referred to as a ‘Hollywood composer’ from then on, even if the rest of his output were to consist solely of liturgical organ sonatas.
~Andre Previn

I think a very clear cut example of dare I say ‒ plagiarism is the Sam Smith-Tom Petty situation, where you have a song that is flagrantly… it is the hook from one song being used for another song. To me, that was a very obvious example of plagiarism. If somebody had done that to me, I would probably take a similar course of action.
~Ben Gibbard

I chew a special brand of gum that you can’t get in America. It’s British, and it’s called Airwaves. It’s a menthol eucalyptus gum that is a very soothing thing for me when I’m singing because I’m swallowing, and it also keeps my sinuses and general upper breathing clear. I’ve got to be able to hit these clear, clean notes.
~Rob Halford

I’m looking forward to going out at the concert with a clear head, with a clear mind, with a clear spirit and experiencing whatever it is. It’s great.
~Lenny Kravitz (after weed addiction)

But I’m not superstitious. I don’t really eat dinner before I go on stage, because digesting a lot of food kind of shuts you down. And I try not to get involved in emotional conversations with anyone beforehand either, so I’ve got a clear head.
~Michael Bolton

The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.
~Duncan Sheik

I still play that guitar. It’s a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I’ve played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.
~Andy Griffith

Back in the early ’70s, when Susie and I were first married, we had a little house that we rented, and we used to have parties. People would come, and they wouldn’t leave. I used to get so tired. I’d put on the Stanley Brothers, ‘Songs for the Good People,’ and the house would clear in five minutes. It was not liked; it was alien. It was weird.
~Ry Cooder

I just prefer instrumental. I don’t need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear ‒ I don’t need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.
~Lydia Lunch (singer/poet)

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My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
~Maurice Ravel

Art is science made clear.
~Wilson Mizner

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~Dolly Parton: Light of a Clear Blue Morning • ft Lainey Wilson, Miley Cyrus, Queen Latifah & Reba (3:48) a more polished version

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~VocalEssence Chorale Ghana: It Came Upon The Midnight Clear (4:12) some things are universal

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~Captain Beefheart: Clear Spot (3:33) endless search for it

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~Doobie Brothers: Clear As the Driven Snow (5:20) with gusting tempos

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~Foo Fighters: In The Clear (4:04) life, it’s complicated

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~Northern Ireland Opera: The Lark in the Clear Air • Susie Gibbons (3:22) opera outdoors in an open orchard

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~Billy Strings: In the Clear (7:09) either country or folk, it’s not clear

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Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.
~John Deacon

If so, I couldn’t imagine how the opposite gender managed to get out of bed in the morning. They might be lovely to look at, but clear thinking wasn’t their strong point.
~Ann Aguirre

The rush of sexual attraction can act like a drug and blur our capacity for clear thinking. This can lead us to distance ourselves from our friends or even abandon our life plan for someone who couldn’t otherwise be relied on to water our plants and feed our cat.
~Harriet Lerner

When I try to write love, it only turns into horror. Thinking about it with a clear head, feeling such deep emotions to some other person you don’t even know is truly a terrifying thingI wonder if love isn’t a manifestation of madness in some way.
~Gen Urobuchi

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No, we don’t accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms when we love. Dear girl, this: that we loved, inside us, not One who would someday appear, but seething multitudes; not just a single child, but also the fathers lying in our depths like fallen mountains; also the dried-up riverbeds of ancient mothers-; also the whole soundless landscape under the clouded or clear sky of its destiny -; all this, my dear, preceded you.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

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Love is the only channel for a clear communication.
~Roger Delano Hinkins

Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That’s what makes a marriage work.
~Dr Dre

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I’d rather do it for love.
~Joan Crawford

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Love is to be nurtured, protected, and respected, and entered into with a clear mind and a sound heart.
~Denene Millner

Abruptly he thrust his snow-drenched leather gloves against my cheeks. I dodged. A raw carnal feeling blazed up within me, branding my cheeks. I felt myself staring at him with crystal clear eyes… From that time on I was in love with Omi.
~Yukio Mishima

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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
~Iris Murdoch

We must make it clear that a platform of ‘I hate gay men and women’ is not a way to become president of the United States.
~Jimmy Carter

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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A clear rejection is like a storm with sunshine that follows, but a fake promise is like a cloudy day which hides the sun forever.
~Marinela Reka

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
~Blaise Pascal

To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true.
~Charlotte Bronte (Mr Rochester to Jane)

It is thyself, mine own self’s better part; Mine eye’s clear eye, my dear heart’s dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope’s aim, My sole earth’s heaven, and my heaven’s claim.
~William Shakespeare

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My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn’t going to work for me ‒ I was quite clear about that in my early teens.
~Tino Sehgal

I’ve never had a particular skill. I can’t cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me. I’d think, when I’m grown up, at 18, then I made it 21, it will be clear what role I should have in life. It never happened. I never signed on the dotted line as the sort of adult my father wanted.
~Michael Palin (Monty Python, etc)

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.
~Anna Freud

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them ‒ not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
~Anne Bronte

My father ‒ the late Madhavrao Scindia ‒ was clear about the distinction between being ‘loving’ and ‘strict.’
~Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

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My grandmother. She’s someone I never met, and I would’ve loved to have met her. She’s been a huge influence on our entire family, not just me. She is a mystery. It’s not clear exactly what about her is truth and myth.
~Amy Tan

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers’ incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
~Anna Quindlen

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Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, ‘How are you, you old scoundrel!’ clearly I don’t really mean he’s a scoundrel.
~Umberto Eco

With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch.
~Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.
~Pindar

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My wife will act as the offensive coordinator at times during the evening. I’ll have her read the full play to me. I’ll sit there and try to picture it, spit it back out to her, make sure I’m verbalizing it the right way so that when I step into the huddle the next day in practice, things are coming out clear.
~Brock Osweiler (NFL quarterback)

Being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It’s not about winning. It’s about you and your relationship with yourself, your family and your friends. Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn’t let them down because you told them the truth. And that truth is you did everything you could. There wasn’t one more thing you could’ve done. Can you live in that moment as best you can, with clear eyes, and love in your heart, with joy in your heart? If you can do that gentleman ‒ you’re perfect!
~Billy Bob Thornton

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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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
~Keith Richards

Beautiful clear day in Beverly Hills. The sweet smell of Botox is in the air.
~Bob Saget

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
~Redd Foxx

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
~Woody Allen

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.
~Terry Pratchett

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With a live audience, it’s very clear when you’ve pushed it too far to the edge ‒ because you fall off that edge and hit bottom with a thud. Nothing abstract about that. You know you went too far when you hear that groan or worse ‒ that silence instead of the big laugh you were expecting following your hilariously edgy joke.
~Michael Patrick King

It’s so clear cut with a comedian ‒ you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don’t. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.
~Jimmy Carr

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The Tibetans have many teachings on how to die, consciously, and how to remain in the clear light, and it works. You can see it working, and they can stay in that state for hours, days, or weeks.
~Tenzin Palmo

To the last day of your life, be positive; try to be cheerful. Even at the very end, don’t think, “I am finished.” Instead of pitying yourself, you should be thinking, “O ye who are left on this desolate shore still to mourn and deplore, it is I who pity you.” Death will not give you any trouble if you have a clear conscience; and if you go with this thought: “Lord, I am in Thy hands.”
~Paramahansa Yogananda

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Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.
~P C Cast

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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one’s own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

‘How much longer will I live?’… Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.
~Henri Nouwen

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Be honest in every way and enjoy the peace that only a clear conscience can bring you.
~Thomas Wolsey

I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.
~Socrates

The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.
~Benjamin Franklin

A clear conscience is a soft mat.
~Swahili Wisdom

There’s no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.
~Glen Campbell

Clear conscience sleeps through thunder.
~Jamaican Wisdom

Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
~Paramahansa Yogananda

A clear conscience is a sure card.
~John Lyly

Keep conscience clear, then never fear.
~Benjamin Franklin

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
~Doug Larson

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Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices.
~Audre Lorde

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.
~Hector Hugh Munro

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The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.
~Peter J Carroll

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.
~Horace

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Truth is a peacemaker and a healer. It makes it possible for us to negotiate the world with a clear conscience and a pure heart.
~Roderick Terry

A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
~Cesare Pavese

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It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
~Havelock Ellis

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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
~Sinclair Lewis

I’m not saying that you shouldn’t go to college or you shouldn’t finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.
~Phil Keoghan

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Creating a clear and engaging video explanation of a complex concept is a great way to demonstrate mastery and to help others understand and love the subject, too.
~Sal Khan

We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The instructor brought complex concepts down to earth. I will miss coming here every week.
~Miguel Ferrer

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.
~William Merritt Chase

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I don’t want Washington ‒ let me be perfectly clear ‒ I do not want Washington involved in local education decisions any more than I want them involved in common core. You know, common core was a state-created and state-implemented voluntary set of standards in Math and English that are comparable across state lines.
~Jan Brewer

I do think that a school day that matches the work day makes a lot of difference for working families, but the big driver of this effort is education. Period. We have a lot of students not gaining the skills they need, and it is pretty clear that school does not offer enough time to get that job done.
~Chris Gabrieli

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It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.
~Michelle Obama

I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It’s very clear to see ‒ it’s fact. We’re not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things.
~Jamie Oliver

My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.
~James D Watson (helix DNA model)

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The Introverse
Harvested AI

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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
~P T Barnum

When we’re young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged.
~Andrew Shue

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

They say eyes clear with age.
~Philip Larkin

In my late 20s, I realized that I had a very clear social conscience and strong opinions about things like diversity, equality, and education, and while I tried to become more politically literate, I just couldn’t catch on. It felt like I had walked into a movie that had already started, and no one would explain what had happened.
~Tracee Ellis Ross

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
~Niccolo Machiavelli

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There are five great ages of man ‒ five moments when you need to reevaluate everything, clear out the cupboard and the wardrobe, and most importantly, your head. They are 13, 20, 30, 40 and 60. All men need to know this.
~A A Gill

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…it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.
~George MacDonald

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
~Carl Jung

Clear communication between selves ‒ the surface self and the deep self ‒ is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.
~Stephen King

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
~Jean Paul (1763–1825)

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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
~George Bernard Shaw

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
~Madeleine Albright (ex-Sec State)

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
~Vernon Howard

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Ignorance of one’s misfortunes is clear gain.
~Euripides

Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein

In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking yields new ideas. And ideas produce the bloom…of an answer. Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.
~Andy Andrews

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It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.
~Albert Einstein

After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking.
~Rebecca West

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
~Thomas Szasz

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To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.
~Thomas Huxley

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.
~Horace Mann

One man is a splendid fighter — a god has made him so — one’s a dancer, another skilled at lyre and song, and deep in the next man’s chest farseeing Zeus plants the gift of judgment, good clear sense. And many reap the benefits of that treasure.
~Homer

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God’s providence is on the side of clear heads.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Men lose their birthrights for a mess of pottage only if they stop using the gifts given them by God for their betterment. By prayer. That is the first and greatest gift. Use the gift of prayer. Ask for strength of mind, and a clear vision. Then sense. Use your sense. … Think long and well. By prayer and good thought you will conquer all enemies.
~Richard Llewellyn

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Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
~Alexis Carrel

You see, it’s all clear, we were meant to be here from the beginning.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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@Writers Platform:

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.
~Maya Lin

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
~Carl Sandburg

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.
~Cecil Day-Lewis

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Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.
~C S Lewis

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.
~W H Auden

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
~Ezra Pound

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.
~Albert Camus

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Along the (writing) way accidents happen, detours get taken… But these are not “divine” accidents; I don’t believe in those. I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have confidence that you have a clear direction to take, you always have confidence to explore other ways; if they prove to be mere digressions, you’ll recognize that and make the necessary revisions. The more you know about a book, the freer you can be to fool around. The less you know, the tighter you get.
~John Irving

I’m interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers ‒ or sometimes multiple answers. It’s here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I’m also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
~Taryn Simon

We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.
~Lynne Truss

Let me just acknowledge that the function of grammar is to make language as efficient and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.
~John Green

Format is just the language. Content is the only thing that is important. Form is like handwriting. Whether you write in a scribble or clean handwriting or type it, the content remains the same. You want to write in clean hand, in a kind of a clear format only because it is aesthetically pleasing. I can scribble, that’s also fine.
~Mani Ratnam

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Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn’t about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.
~John P Kotter

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.
~Jean-Francois Lyotard

Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.
~Tim Ferriss

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Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
~Tim Ferriss (entrepreneur/investor)

Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write as clearly and simply as possible. I like clean, unadorned writing. So writing for a younger audience was largely an exercise in making my prose even more clear and direct, and in avoiding complicated digressions.
~Serge Schmemann

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There’s two kinds of evil that horror fiction always deals with. One kind is the sort of evil that comes from inside people, like in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The other kind of evil is predestined evil. It falls on you like a stroke of lightning. That’s the scary stuff, but, in a way, it’s the stuff you don’t have to worry about. I gotta worry whether or not I’m getting cavities. I gotta worry about whether cigarettes are giving me cancer. Those are things I can change. Don’t give me lightning out of a clear sky. If that hits me I just say, “That’s probably the way God meant it to be.”
~Stephen King

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

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When writers don’t know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.
~J Michael Straczynski

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
~Eudora Welty

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I write non-fiction quicker, and I write it on a computer. Fiction I write longhand, and that helps make it clear that it comes from a slightly different part of the brain, I think.
~John Lanchester

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I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I’ve had to write what I’ve wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer.
~Karen Joy Fowler

I don’t put a very clear label on my work. If anything, I write science fiction ‒ looking at a moment now, in the present, and then extrapolating outward to think about what the future might look like if this particular trend goes on, or if this particular trend is the most dominant. That’s a science fictional tool.
~Paolo Bacigalupi

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A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you’re communicating what you think you’re communicating. It’s so easy as a young writer to think you’re been very clear when in fact you haven’t.
~Octavia E Butler

Ted Geisel [Dr Suess] was trying to make a statement about awareness and personal responsibility. He was very clear about that. But the ideas and themes in ‘The Lorax‘ go beyond a love of trees. It’s also a story about the dangers of greed and the power of redemption. That’s what makes it a timeless tale.
~Chris Meledandri

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.
~David McCullough

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…clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.
~Edith Hamilton

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
~George Orwell

To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. … That’s what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.
~Ben Okri

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Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.
~Marie Rutkoski

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When I’m working, I’m not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.
~Anne Enright (Irish writer)

The writer’s secret is not inspiration ‒ for it is never clear where it comes from ‒ it is his stubbornness, his patience.
~Orhan Pamuk

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For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it’s more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.
~Jill McCorkle

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Prompt: The Occasional Corner
Nobody alive, but there’s people hiding in the sentences below. Find them.

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I’ll knock you clear into Tuesday, and weld the door shut to Wednesday.

That’s no billy goatee, that’s clear to see. Maybe someday, but not before Sunday.

You do not call a sargeant, Sir, until he graduates and clears OCS on Friday.

It’s clear the boat is sinking, so don the vest, bob in the water and hope you don’t drown.

Don’t tinker with that crystal clapper. Sounds clear as a bell the way it is.

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O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o’ertax’d, its palsied hearts, was rife.
~Matthew Arnold

If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it’s clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.
~Scott Derrickson

… we need to hamper our consciousness for all we are worth or it will impose upon us a too clear vision of what we do not want to see … Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are – hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones
~Thomas Ligotti

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
~Cyril Connolly

Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
~John Calvin

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Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration ‒ courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.
~H L Mencken

…we must realize that a vast majority of believers are still searching and will continue to search for the being who is the “source of human good.” Those who seek with clear heads and sincere hearts will in some measure find. Of course the true seeker will realize that there is no one way to find God. To be sure, there are many possible ways of finding God.
~Martin Luther King, Jr

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These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.
~C S Lewis

For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with the clear vision of faith. When a young Celtic monk saw his cat catch a salmon swimming in shallow water, he cried, “The power of the Lord is in the paw of the cat!
~Brennan Manning

I do have a clear vision, and I do see things that are existing in my quote-unquote spirit, but that doesn’t necessary make me a very spiritual person.
~Werner Herzog

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The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
~Max Muller

As you become aware of what has robbed you of the purity of an innocent mind, a clear heart and a strong body, you will be deeply served by letting go of those familiar limitations.
~Debbie Ford

In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.
~Franz Kafka

A clear conscience is absolutely essential for distinguishing between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. Unconfessed sin is a prime reason why many do not know God’s will.
~Winkie Pratney

To have a clear conscience is to miss the point of being a life, alive. Mistakes are the proverbial lessons, how we learn. The reason for Eden and the Tree was wisdom, to know good from evil, to have been there and know why.
~U Bin Shone

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
~Thomas Carlyle

O God… make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father’s hand.
~Israel Zangwill

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My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men do not disturb me. I am acting according to a clear conscience, and am doing hurt to no man. For my conduct, I will answer to my maker.
~William the Silent (William of Orange, liberator)

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.
~Christopher Dawson

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A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity; thoughts of the blessed companionship of saints and angels, trust in God as the friend of truth and virtue,–these are the states of mind in which I should live.
~William Ellery Channing

Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking becomes clear ‒ nothing is missing.
~Thomas Aquinas

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If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.
~Ayrton Senna

I have never been quite sure who controls the weather. Although we always prayed for clear skies, I have had to preach in all kinds of storms.
~Billy Graham

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
~Thomas Aquinas

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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
~Paramahansa Yogananda

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.
~Dalai Lama

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To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.
~Viktor Orban

Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari’a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.
~Hussein of Jordan

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
~Barbara Jordan

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A group is as healthy as its ‘social contract’ is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor’s and people’s commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled.
~David Augsburger

Religions have always been clearly on to this psycho-therapeutic score. For hundreds of years in the West, Christian art had a very clear function: it was meant to direct us towards the good and wean us off vice.
~Alain de Botton

Our Holy Father… is very clear that, of course, the teachings of the Church must be preserved and passed on. However, we need to do this in a way that the Holy Father says is creative. We need to do it in a way that we look for new strategies that address the hearts of people.
~Joseph Edward Kurtz

I don’t go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking ‒ it’s a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.
~Mark Wahlberg

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Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
~Leon Kass

It’s not clear in physics why you can’t see the future.
~Brian Josephson

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Although the theory of relativity makes the greatest of demands on the ability for abstract thought, still it fulfills the traditional requirements of science insofar as it permits a division of the world into subject and object (observer and observed) and, hence, a clear formulation of the law of causality.
~Werner Heisenberg

Sometimes I find myself exploring very different and new fields but I have a very clear vision of what I would like to do and the questions I would like to raise.
~Dror Benshetrit

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble ‒ and will not publish with a clear conscience.
~Kenneth Lee Pike

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The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter*, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence.
~Ernst Mach (empirical, measurable matter)

It’s clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
~Frederik Pohl

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
~Plato

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It is clear that we cannot go up another two orders of magnitude as we have climbed the last five. If we did, we should have two scientists for every man, woman, child, and dog in the population, and we should spend on them twice as much money as we had. Scientific doomsday is therefore less than a century distant.
~Derek J de Solla Price

I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me after a while that mental processes come from the brain, and in order to understand them, you need to be a biologist of the brain.
~Eric Kandel (Nobel, Physiology/Medicine)

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.
~Alfred Russel Wallace

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Apart from the scientific interest attached to my various journeyings, it has been made clear to me that human needs and aspirations differ little the world over and that no great difficulties arise in one race dealing with another when matters of scientific importance are involved.
~Howard Florey

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The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the authority to regulate interstate commerce, and the ENCRYPT Act sends a clear message that the complicated issues with encryption must be addressed thoughtfully and nationally.
~Ted Lieu

It is difficult to think of a major industry that AI will not transform. This includes healthcare, education, transportation, retail, communications, and agriculture. There are surprisingly clear paths for AI to make a big difference in all of these industries.
~Andrew Ng

It’s very clear that AI is going to impact every industry. I think that every nation needs to make sure that AI is a part of their national strategy. Every country will be impacted.
~Jensen Huang

As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.
~Geoff Mulgan

The first virtual world online remains a primary outlet for creative work, a personal observation.
~BarTalk of Wordgrove (There.com)

Ninety percent of all people under 30 are in developing countries, and that means that this new access to tech, which is such a positive thing… is also a ticking time bomb of frustration… You get this clear mismatch of opportunity and expectation.
~Ronan Farrow

I think that AI will lead to a low cost and better quality life for millions of people. Like electricity, it’s a possibility to build a wonderful society. Also, right now, I don’t see a clear path for AI to surpass human-level intelligence.
~Andrew Ng

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.
~Elon Musk

Whether or not the U.S. government funds circumvention tools, or who exactly it funds and with what amount, it is clear that Internet users in China and elsewhere are seeking out and creating their own ad hoc solutions to access the uncensored global Internet.
~Rebecca MacKinnon

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.
~Mark Zuckerberg

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In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great stretch of invention to create birds. The hawk which now takes his flight over the top of the wood was at first, perchance, only a leaf which fluttered in its aisles. From rustling leaves she came in the course of ages to the loftier flight and clear carol of the bird.
~Henry David Thoreau

Who can really say how decisions are made, how emotions change, how ideas arise? We talk about inspiration; about a bolt of lightning from a clear sky, but perhaps everything is just as simple and just as infinitely complex as the processes that make a particular leaf fall at a particular moment. That point has been reached, that’s all. It has to happen, and it does happen.
~John Ajvide Lindqvist

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It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day easily associated with those abstract truths and purities that dissolve in the sunshine or fade out in mocking laughter by the light of the moon. The trees and clouds were carved in classical severity; the sounds of the countryside had harmonized to a monotone, metallic as a trumpet, breathless as the Grecian urn.
~F Scott Fitzgerald

After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth ‒ clear skies; moist brilliant earth ‒ greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts.
~Fernando Pessoa

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
~Morihei Ueshiba

This is what we see when we look up at Rainier, the beauty, the horror, the awe the unbelievability of size that confirms our own consequence on this earth. We look at the mountain, like god and can imagine nothing larger. Its incompressible life-span reminds us of the fleeting mortality of our own bones. It looms over our lives on clear days and and stay present but hidden through the clouds of winter. Like god it remains everywhere forever.
~Bruce Barcott

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We say ‘forest’ but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm.
~Witold Gombrowicz (Polish playwright)

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Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of his instruments, not the composer.
~Geoffrey Charlesworth

Now, on the longest day, light triumphs, and yet begins the decline into dark. We turn the Wheel for we have planted the seeds of our own changes, and to grow we must accept even the passing of the sun Set Sail See with clear eyes See how we shine!
~Starhawk

September is a sweep of dusky, purple asters, a sumac branch swinging a fringe of scarlet leaves, and the bittersweet scene of wild grapes when I walk down the lane to the mailbox. September is a golden month of mellow sunlight and still clear days. … Small creatures in the grass, as if realizing their days are numbered, cram the night air with sound. Everywhere goldenrod is full out.
~Jean Hersey

Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron, and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.
~Sharon Kay Penman

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.
~Hal Borland

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Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
~John Muir

On a sunny clear day, you can improve your body; on a rainy fogy day, you can improve your mind!
~Mehmet Murat ildan

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We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
~Jonathan Safran Foer

“Clear-cutting” was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers.
~Scott Westerfeld

I like a certain grandeur to a landscape, which both the Arctic and coastal BC have. I like it to be at all times clear that people aren’t the dominant fact of a particular geography.
~Kevin Patterson

I look at it this way… For centuries now, man has done everything he can to destroy, defile, and interfere with nature: clear-cutting forests, strip-mining mountains, poisoning the atmosphere, over-fishing the oceans, polluting the rivers and lakes, destroying wetlands and aquifers… so when nature strikes back, and smacks him on the head and kicks him in the nuts, I enjoy that. I have absolutely no sympathy for human beings whatsoever. None. And no matter what kind of problem humans are facing, whether it’s natural or man-made, I always hope it gets worse.
~George Carlin

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The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature’s transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to be subdued.
~Thomas Kuhn

In the end, it’s clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs that are inspired by nature to designs made with and by nature to, possibly, designing nature herself.
~Neri Oxman

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Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it. That depends upon attaining a more explicit grasp of the structure of our thoughts; and that in turn on discovering how to give a systematic account of the working of language, the medium in which we express our thoughts.
~Michael Dummett

There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination, and a sensitive ear, will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts needless.
~Herbert Spencer (Brit polymath)

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We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn’t easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance,* we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.
~Tara Brach (*reality without judgment, resistance, or approval)

Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
~Zhuangzi

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It’s clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
~Alain de Botton

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§ The Exercise:

hiStory 202

doleful, feeling solemnly woeful
meaning morphs from empty to soulful
useful, feeling good-hearted and social

rank stench of official offal
stink ranked historically awful
mulish venomous spiteful

kindness shown the greedy with gifts
insanely delightful, clearly insightful
coffins-to-coffers, we kill ‘m, bill u

graceful, the habit of being grateful
grateful, the road to being graceful
do some shots, fire up a bowl full

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clearly

warm heart
clean record
cleared for launch

bleared eyes
armed skies
cleared for lies

cleared place of black face
blonde race cleared to race
clear calls to disembrace

unclear, on a rocking boat
declare, on clearing throat
a sink-or-swim time to vote

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5s ‘n 7s

sunset walk, the moment’s pause
hungry eyes serve a starved heart
sweet awe and bewilderment
secrets to sudden beauty
clear adoration of life

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The holy nation of US
requires of heaven its help
But truth has its consequence
facts of acts to be answered;
clearly yours, not up to Us

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don’t let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, “Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!
~Jerome K Jerome

The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
~William Osler

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Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.
~Phillips Brooks

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.
~Charles Kingsley

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Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time.
~Horace Mann

Avoidance and delays aren’t neutral; they send a very clear message.
~Karine Jean-Pierre

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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong ‒ these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
~Winston Churchill

History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Before the operation there were wars and mass hatred and clear cutting. Whatever these lesions make us, it isn’t a far cry from how humanity was in the rusty era. These days we’re just a bit easier to manage.
~Scott Westerfeld

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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
~Joseph Conrad

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
~Sara Teasdale (italics added ~Ed Note)

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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
~Sallust

If you listen to the traffic with a clear mind, without any concepts, it is not noisy, it is only what it is.
~Stephen Mitchell

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Seeking Clarity is seeking connection with the universe. To connect is to understand; to be clear is to be enlightened.
~Annie Zalezsak

I’ve always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.
~Robert Fulghum

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It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.
~Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (architect)

When you know clearly what you want, you’ll wake up every morning excited about life.
~Mark Victor Hansen

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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
~Pericles

Seeking Clarity is seeking connection with the universe. To connect is to understand; to be clear is to be enlightened.
~Annie Zalezsak

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A good puzzle, it’s a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It’s very clear, and the problem depends just on you.
~Erno Rubik

If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
~Alfred Hitchcock

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Charm is a way of getting the answer ‘Yes’ without asking a clear question.
~Albert Camus

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.
~Katharine Hepburn

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Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
~David Seabury

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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When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly insignificant.
~George Smoot

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
~Ernst Fischer

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Food feeds both the body and soul ‒ there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are also reasons you cling to your mom’s secret chicken noodle soup recipe when you’re sick.
~Michael Mina

Steer clear of anything fried.
~David Kirsch (wellness trainer)

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You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.
~Elizabeth Warren

Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world…
No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter
with a clear conscience break his contract with society.
To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be
a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble.
~Isaiah Bowman

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I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my attention. I would never cease to look around me and observe myself in relation to nature: either crystal clear skies and sun-melting afternoons, or foggy winter days and weirdly tinted nights. I would never cease to dream and stand by the window, ready to let the diversity of life pass freely through my skin; courageous enough to believe I stood a chance in devouring each shade of sensation. Or perhaps, immensely foolish to plainly ‒ believe at all.
~Virginia Woolf

I talk about airplanes and things like that while my scars are on clear view.
~Tig Notaro

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There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.
~Dalai Lama

To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.
~Buzz Aldrin (astronaut)

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When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.
~Marge Piercy (feminist/activist)

I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don’t like that.
~Marina Abramovic

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Growing up in the ’50s and being in the ’60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you’re going to be free, you have to be free from something.
~Anthony Braxton

Royals are always very clear about where they’re moving, because they’ve been told by protection officers exactly what they’re doing.
~Josh O’Connor

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To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
~Thomas A Edison

I just prefer instrumental. I don’t need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear ‒ I don’t need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.
~Lydia Lunch (singer/poet)

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The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.
~Byron Katie

Nothing that has ever been thought and said with a clear mind and pure ethical strength is totally in vain; even if it comes from a weak hand and is imperfectly formed, it inspires the ethical spirit to constantly renewed creation.
~Stefan Zweig

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Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.
~David Allen

Hungry people have especially clear minds.
~Terry Gou

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Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can’t exist without the other.
~William Zinsser

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

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While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.
~Andrew Lo

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
~Alan Greenspan (Fed Reserve)

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In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind.
~Frederick Lenz

Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do to create what it wants without fear… There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
~Byron Katie

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A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy.
~Kerry Kennedy

When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one’s conscience both clear and at ease.
~Criss Jami

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Our memories, the way we tend to experience them, are sort of fuzzy around the edges, like a watercolor that has bled into the past and is not totally clear.
~Lisa Joy

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.
~Diana Wynne Jones

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it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky. Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is always behind them. Clouds go away, then the moon shines brightly. So don’t worry about clear mind: it is always there… You must not be attached to the coming or the going.
~Seungsahn

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Sometimes things aren’t clear right away. That’s where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.
~Mary Pierce

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
~Steve Jobs

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I liked the clear morality of 1941, when you had no doubt about good and evil. There was a lot of idealism, people fighting for a cause. People are searching for morality today.
~David L Wolper

What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.
~Giordano Bruno

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The greatest motivator of change is a crystal-clear vision of what the future should look like.
~Andy Stanley

If you have a clear vision, you will eventually attract the right strategy. If you don’t have a clear vision, no strategy will save you.
~Michael Hyatt

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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
~Mahatma Gandhi

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
~Henry David Thoreau

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
~Adam Smith

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,
and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
~Ogden Nash

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Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers.
~Peter Matthiessen

Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.
~George Sterling

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The Olio’s Quote Harvest
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