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• At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a clue.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Real, Men, Bears

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• Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.

  Lynne Truss

  Sorry, Laughing, Comedian

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• In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Writing, Trying, Narrative

  "Reliving the fall of Sparta". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 22, 2011.

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• The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Technology, Space, Achievement

  The Saturday Evening Post, 1968.

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• Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Leaving, Sometimes, Ends

  Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.58, Algonquin Books

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• If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him.

  Peter Kreeft

  Giving, Want, Sun

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• Michael Caine is so happy. Happy and healthy. I think he enjoys life. I think he's 82 now, and I have no clue if I'll be working at that age.

  Paul Dano

  Thinking, Enjoy Life, Healthy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The fact is, as actors, everything we do, bad or good, is a contribution. To me, it is a positive thing to give people as wide a range of human behavior with some sense of understanding of that behavior or some clue to it.

  Grace Zabriskie

  People, Giving, Understanding

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• The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.

  Walker Percy

  Time, Lying, Past

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lancelot”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Running, Nonprofits, Problem

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• We have concluded that the rocks here were once soaked in liquid water. It changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry. We've been able to read the tell-tale clues the water left behind, giving us confidence in that conclusion.

  Steve Squyres

  Rocks, Giving, Water

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• There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.

  Andy Williams

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.

  Chris Messina

  Thinking, Should, Rhythm

  "Chris Messina Doesn’t Play Favorites". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.

  Eric Hoffer

  Want, Reason, Certain

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Life is beautiful, but you don't have a clue.

  Lana Del Rey

  Beautiful, Life Is Beautiful, Life Is

  Song: Black Beauty, Album: Ultraviolence, 2014

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• Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Art, Sublime, Entrees

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• The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, just construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay--the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start, the framework.

  Walt Whitman

  Struggle, Reading, Sleep

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• The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.

  Ann Wigmore

  Keys, Enthusiasm, Way

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• Success leaves clues, Proximity is power. Love your family, CHOOSE your peers.

  Tony Robbins

  Love You, Peers, Power Of Love

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• To me, it's simple: if you've got the time, use it to get ready. What else could you possibly have to do that's more important? Yes, maybe you'll learn how to do a few things you'll never wind up actually needing to do, but that's a much better problem to have than needing to do something and having no clue where to start.

  Chris Hadfield

  Education, Simple, Wind

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that art and nature are mind's Environment within which we can detect the essence of man's Being and Purpose, and from which we can draw clues to guide our journey from partial consciousness to full consciousness.

  Morris Graves

  Art, Journey, Men

  "Looking East: Brice Marden, Michael Mazur, Pat Steir". Published by University of Washington Press, p. 19, 2002.

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• This is the amazing thing about you. Had I not known anything about your story, I would have absolutely not a clue that you had ever been a boy - a male. Which makes me absolutely believe you always should have been a woman.

  Piers Morgan

  Believe, Pride, Gay

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• With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.

  Sam Simon

  People, Knows

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• The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.

  Walter Lippmann

  Book, People, Office

  1920 Liberty and the News,'What Modern Liberty Means'.

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• One of the clues that I chased was that Dan Cooper, whoever he was, found an old magazine story called "How to Leave Your Life." And followed the directions on how to leave your life, and just went to the beach one day with his wife and kids, and said he needed to go to the bathroom, and went to the restroom at the beach and never came home.

  Geoffrey Gray

  Beach, Kids, Home

  "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.

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