Clearing Quotes - Page 6

• Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the colored portion of the map, is but a little clearing on the banks of the river, which one of those syllables would more than cover.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rivers, Lakes, Might

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Yankee in Canada”, p.32, Graphic Arts Books

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• I get sort of short with people and start grumbling and clearing my throat - in honor of my father - when I'm impatient. It's very charming.

  Maria Bamford

  Father, People, Honor

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• We worked all the time, just worked and then we would be hungry and my mother was clearing up a new ground trying to help feed us for $1.25 a day. She was using an axe, just like a man, and something flew up and hit her in her eye. It eventually caused her to lose both of her eyes and I began to get sicker and sicker of the system there. I used to see my mother wear clothes that would have so many patches on them, they had been done over and over and over again. She would do that but she would try to keep us decent.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Mother, Eye, Men

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• If I'm not travelling for external meetings, my usual day at work starts with a quiet session to plan and prioritise things that need to get done, and then clearing off important emails that need attention.

  Azran Osman Rani

  Important, Email, Usual

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• A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk."

  Deepak Chopra

  Clearing Out, Inner Peace, Brain

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• My mother's brother was killed while clearing mines in 1945. Those are things that mark your childhood and they help explain why we are so devoted to European unity.

  Martin Schulz

  Mother, Brother, Childhood

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• So what is the role that credit default swaps can play in an economy? Well my feeling is that if these things actually will now be traded on either exchanges or some kind of central clearing, they are going to be a very good measure of the credit worthiness of different companies.

  Robert F. Engle

  Play, Feelings, Different

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.

  Dani Shapiro

  Writing, Garbage Cans, House

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I volunteered on a farming community in Israel for two years when I was a teenager. One of the jobs involved clearing out a massive warehouse full of chickens ready for the abattoir. The smell of 40,000 chickens in 45C is awful.

  Nick Frost

  Jobs, Teenager, Israel

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• Whenever a liberal begins a peevish complaint with a throat-clearing equivocation like, "Of course, we all agree," your antennae should go up. This is how liberals couch statements they assume all Americans would demand they make, but which they secretly chafe at.

  Ann Coulter

  Demand, Assuming, Should

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• The body is a self-healing organism, so it's really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself.

  Barbara Brennan

  Healing, Heal Itself, Body

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• The reason why clutter clearing is effective is that while you are putting your external world in order there are corresponding changes going on internally too.

  Karen Kingston

  Order, World, Reason Why

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• Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny how much a single word can provide focus and direction. As soon as I claimed that identity, I started clearing more and more space for poetry in my life and applying poetic tools to other areas of my life. The world became a different place, and I witnessed it through different kinds of eyes.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Eye, Writing, Space

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• Every aspect of your life is anchored energetically in your living space, so clearing your clutter can completely transform your entire existence.

  Karen Kingston

  Space, Life Is, Aspect

  Karen Kingston (2016). “Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Revised and Updated): Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever”, p.13, Harmony

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• Thus, in its relation to Christianity, intelligent design should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the intellectual rubbish that for generations has kept Christianity from receiving serious consideration.

  William A. Dembski

  Intelligent, Design, Intellectual

  "Intelligent Design's Contribution To The Debate Over Evolution: A Reply To Henry Morris". billdembski.com. February 01, 2005.

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• Allow your attention to gently alight on your belly, as if you were coming upon a shy animal sunning itself on a tree stump in a clearing in the forest. Feel your belly rise or expand gently on the inbreath, and fall or recede on the outbreath.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Fall, Animal, Tree

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth.

  Jane Siberry

  Land, Creating, People

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• Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Three, Agents, Trouble

  Dashiell Hammett (2009). “Detective Stories”, p.11, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.

  Ilchi Lee

  Mean, Mind, Perception

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from Dec 07, 2013

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• No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land.

  Rod McKuen

  Mean, Love Is, Land

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• Cut brambles long enough, Sprout after sprout, And the lotus will bloom Of its own accord: Already waiting in the clearing, The single image of light. The day you see this, That day you will become it.

  Sun Bu'er

  Cutting, Reflection, Light

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• Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Philosophical, House, Fundamentals

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1922). “Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.”

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• Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions.

  Dan Millman

  Responsibility, Evolution, Conscious

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.79, H J Kramer

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• These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

  Yann Martel

  Anger, Heart, People

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.110, Canongate Books

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• To all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing. If we give the attributes of a medium to the artist, we must then deny him the state of consciousness on the aesthetic plane about what he is doing or why he is doing it. All this decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis, spoken or written, or even thought out.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Self, Space

  ART-news, 56. no. 4, 1957.

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