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• And let's be clear: It's not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren't healthy. It's also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.

  Michelle Obama

  Healthy, Marketing, Limits

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• There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Commitment, Ideas, Rehabilitation

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• There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

  John Searle

  Umpires, Two, Understanding

  "Minds, Brains and Programs". John Searle, "Behavioral and Brain Sciences", Volume 3, No. 3, 1980.

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• There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.

  Alice Hamilton

  Intelligent, Air, Dust

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.98, Read Books Ltd

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• 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

  Inspirational, Truth, Dark

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.416, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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  Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

  Epictetus

  Life, Jealousy, Envy

  Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.4, Harper Collins

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

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Life, Positive, Birthday

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• Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking becomes clear - nothing is missing.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Missing You, God, Thinking

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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

  Money, Honesty, Integrity

  "Excellent Quotations for Home and School" by Julia B. Hoitt, (p. 74), 1890.

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• 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

  Uplifting, Christian, Prayer

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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

  Philosophy, Book, Sound

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• In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.

  Arvid Carlsson

  Drug, Modern, Individual

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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

  Enlightenment, Literature, Path

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles”, p.1325, e-artnow

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

  Margaret Fuller

  Determination, Honesty, Reality

  Margaret Fuller (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.64

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• I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

  Alan Greenspan

  Misunderstood, Investing, Should

  Speech in 1988. "What if the Fed Chief Speaks Plainly?" by Floyd Norris, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2005.

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• But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.

  Stephen Harper

  Party, Believe, Should Have

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• 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

  Ideas, Good Movie, Sound

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Crystals, Calm, Quiet

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Powerful, Example, Cloning

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• When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Spain, World

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• It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Silence, Hearing, Administration

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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

  Lying, Problem, Depends

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• 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

  May, Path, Steps

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

  May Sarton

  Fashion, What Matters, Trying

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

  John Sununu

  Voice, Matter, Standards

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