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• 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

  Government, People, Ordinary

  "The Phil Donahue Show", www.youtube.com. 1979.

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• Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.

  Gautama Buddha

  Hands, Rivers, Smell

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

  Pindar

  Trust, Eye, Joy

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “The Way of Zen”, p.157, Vintage

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• When you know clearly what you want, you'll wake up every morning excited about life.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Life, Morning, Everyday

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Jun 30, 2014

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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

  Wise, Wisdom, Peace

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• The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Power, Government, Matter

  Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel, Bertrand De Jouvenel (2010). “The Ethics of Redistribution”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

  Aeschylus

  Drinking, Water, Environmental

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• We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Life, Jesus, Way

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “Our Master”

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• You see, it's all clear, we were meant to be here from the beginning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Future, Were Meant To Be, Premonition

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• 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

  Song, Men, Dancer

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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

  Heart, Sick, Modern Life

  'The Scholar-Gipsy' (1853) l. 201

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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

  Nature, Bird, Age

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.112, Xist Publishing

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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

  Nature, Heart, I Hate You

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• Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

  Keith Richards

  Drug, Police, Problem

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• 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

  Inspirational, Time, Money

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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• A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Focus, Matter, Concern

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.271, Modern Library

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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

  Wish, Firsts, Becoming

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.25, Elsevier

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• Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

  John Deacon

  Health, Air, Argument

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• Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.

  Laozi

  Positivity, Water, Muddy

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• I keep my eys clear and I hit 'em where they ain't.

  Willie Keeler

  Baseball, Ems, Clear Eyes

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• Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

  Richard Pryor

  Religious, Way, Made

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• A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

  Elizabeth I

  Innocence, Innocent, Fear Nothing

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• We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

  William James

  Truth, Opposites, Would Be

  William James (2007). “The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.217, Cosimo, Inc.

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• WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

  Peter King

  Pregnancy, United States, Wikileaks

  "The World Reacts to Massive Diplomatic Leak". www.spiegel.de. November 29, 2010.

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