Clear Quotes - Page 10

• The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mind, Despair, Levity

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• If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.

  Sengcan

  Want, Ifs

  "Xinxin Ming". Poem by Sengcan,

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

  John Calvin

  Views, Giving, Darkness

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• To the ordinary guy, all this is a bunch of gobbledygook. But out of the gobbledygook comes a very clear thing: you can't trust the government, you can't believe what they say, and you can't rely on their judgment.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Believe, Government, Guy

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• Try to see the joyful side of life. One must see the pain of life with clear eyes, and help all he can; but there is also lots of joy, and on should see that, too.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Pain, Eye, Joy

  Norman Vincent Peale (1957). “Stay Alive all Your Life”

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• The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

  George Orwell

  Latin, Fall, Political Language

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I cannot imagine how any diplomat, or any dramatist, could improve on (Ronald Reagan's) words to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit: 'Let me tell you why it is we distrust you.' Those words are candid and tough and they cannot have been easy to hear. But they are also a clear invitation to a new beginning and a new relationship that would be rooted in trust.

  Margaret Thatcher

  New Beginnings, New Relationship, Diplomats

  Remarks on the Passing of Ronald Reagan, tape delivered on 11 June 2004

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• Throughout history governments have been chronically short of revenue. The reason should be clear: unlike you and me, governments do not produce useful goods and services that they can sell on the market; governments, rather than producing and selling services, live parasitically off the market and off society.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Like You, Reason

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• Obama said, 'Now let me be clear, issues of women's equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam.' No, he said, 'the struggle for women's equality continues in many aspects of American life.' So on one hand, 12-year-old girls are stoned to death for the crime of being raped in Muslim countries. But on the other hand, we still don't have enough female firefighters here in America.

  Ann Coulter

  Girl, Country, Struggle

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• The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on AFDC, will now grow to a clear majority of the U.S. population.

  Dick Morris

  Children, Majority, Population

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• Give a man a clear-cut job and let him do it.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Jobs, Cutting, Men

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• A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.

  John Quincy Adams

  Heart, Despair, Stout

  "The works of Charles Sumner". Book by Charles Sumner, 1870.

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• If we clear the air of the fog of catchwords which surround the conduct of war, and grasp that in the human will lies the source and mainspring of all conflict, as of all other activities of man's life, it becomes clear that our object in war can only be attained by the subjugation of the opposing will. All acts, such as defeat in the field, propaganda, blockade, diplomacy, or attack on the centres of government and population, are seen to be but means to that end.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Lying, Mean

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• A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise.

  Zig Ziglar

  Fake, Rejection, Promise

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Feb 12, 2014

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• Try and get out into nature for even 30 min. each day to clear your head + think + walk + breathe. Great daily practice.

  Robin Sharma

  Thinking, Practice, Trying

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Oct 29, 2013

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• The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

  George Gilder

  Simple, Men, Keys

  George F. Gilder (1992). “Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise”, Ics Press

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• Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and more than a billion people are barely able to afford to eat - it would somehow be good for the planet to clear rain-forests to grow palm oil, or give up food-crop land to grow biofuels, solely so that people could burn fuel derived from carbohydrate rather than hydrocarbons in their cars, thus driving up the price of food for the poor. Ludicrous is too weak a word for this heinous crime.

  Matt Ridley

  Giving Up, Rain, Writing

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• Every liberal initiative, from welfare to antismoking measures, is justified by reference to 'the children.' Yet the clear result of liberal policies is to harm children even more than adults.

  Mona Charen

  Children, Adults, Justified

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to say the new approach is all wrong, bound to lead to trouble, and so on. On one point, however, I am clear. I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand ( although I find it difficult to apply ) even though it may mean foregoing large, and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don't fully understand, have not practiced successfully, and which possibly could lead to substantial permanent loss of capital.

  Warren Buffett

  Mean, Loss, Games

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• When you're working on something where there's usually one sex scene in the film, it all gets a little bit of a gray area and people get a bit uncomfortable and awkward. You just get through it. But, it became very clear on this that that can't happen. There can't be any gray areas on this because there are actors and actresses coming in for a day or a couple of days, as well as people who are there regularly.

  Michael Sheen

  Sex, Couple, People

  Source: collider.com

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• We knew, very early on, that we had to be very, very clear that directors need to speak to actors and actresses and be very clear about what is expected, and find out whether they're comfortable with that. Wardrobe has to be in place. There have to be checks.

  Michael Sheen

  Directors, Needs, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• We got together and realized that Universal made it clear that they were out of the Riddick business. They didn't want to spend that kind of money anymore. So, it was going to be an independent movie.

  David Twohy

  Independent, Together, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• The physical element of a role is something I'm super familiar with, and I love it. I've definitely made the transition into acting over doubling, just because I needed to make it clear to myself, so that I fully committed.

  Zoe Bell

  Acting, Transition, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.

  Sam Palladio

  Drinking, Trying, Excess

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea of what the market will tolerate.

  Liam Gillick

  Art, Ideas, Tolerate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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