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• A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared to hope the picture might spring to life.

  Lucian Freud

  Art, Spring, Promise

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• With the empowerment of an advanced Teacher, and your own best efforts, you will be able to explore the mysteries of knowledge that lead to completion and perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Best Effort, Perfection

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• My thesis is that all disciplines find their completion in Christ and cannot be properly understood apart from Christ.

  William A. Dembski

  Discipline, Christ, Thesis

  William A. Dembski (2002). “Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology”, p.206, InterVarsity Press

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• The ecstasy and completion of absorption in God is so fantastic that you can't possibly have lost anything because all the things you've always loved and always experienced came forth from there and exist there and are always there.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Fantastic, Lost

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• The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Effort, Unity, Vision

  Alfred North Whitehead (1969). “Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology; Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28”, New York : Macmillan

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• What we call stress is just extension of being busy without meaning. When you do things that are not meaningful to you, just to get the sense of completion, just to feel like you got something done, your spirit feels empty. So, the most important thing for people to realize is that you have to control the flow of information in your life.

  Tony Robbins

  Meaningful, Stress, People

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• A marriage was like a house under constant construction, each year seeing the completion of new rooms. A first-year marriage was a cottage; one that had gone on for twenty-seven years was a huge and rambling mansion. There were bound to be crannies and storage spaces, most of them dusty and abandoned, some containing a few unpleasant relics you would just as soon you hadn't found. But that was no biggie. You either threw those relics out or took them to Goodwill.

  Stephen King

  Years, Storage Space, House

  Stephen King (2014). “A Good Marriage”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

  Keith Miller

  Christian, Adventure, Trying

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• Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

  Laozi

  Failure, Rushing, Trying

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• A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.

  David Graeber

  Debt

  David Graeber (2014). “Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years”, p.160, Melville House

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• After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion of that journey: the return to the valley below, to the everyday world. Who it is that returns is not who began the climb in the first place. The being that comes back is quietness itself, is compassion and wisdom, is the truth of the ages. Whatever humble or elevated position that being holds within the community, he or she becomes a light for others on the way a statement of the freedom that comes from having touched the top of the mountain.

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  Ram Dass

  Inspirational, Humble, Journey

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• Access to the national dividend is usually to be had only on condition of some productive service previously rendered or of some product previously sold. This condition is, in this case, not yet fulfilled. It will be fulfilled only after the successful completion of the new combinations. Hence this credit will in the meantime affect the price level.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Successful, Credit, Levels

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2011). “The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle”, p.74, Transaction Publishers

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• Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

  Terry Eagleton

  Democracy, Socialism, Negation

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Why Marx Was Right”, p.202, Yale University Press

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• Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop.

  Jan Struther

  Baby, Fun, Party

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• I'm forever BECOMING. I'll never be complete, because completion is death.

  Stacy Barthe

  Forever, Becoming

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• It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion.

  Don DeLillo

  Hate, Two, Enemy

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

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• The darling schemes and fondest hopes of man are frequently frustrated by time. While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously executes, disappointment laughs at the curious fabric, formed by so many efforts, and gay with so many brilliant colors, and, while the artists imagine the work arrived at the moment of completion, brushes away the beautiful web, and leaves nothing behind.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Beautiful, Disappointment, Gay

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• Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than it is in the picture. The process is in fact habit-forming.

  Lucian Freud

  Perfect, Might, Facts

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• September is the month of maturity; the heaped basket and the garnered sheaf. It is the month of climax and completion. September! I never tire of turning it over and over in my mind. It has warmth, depth and colour. It glows like old amber.

  Patience Strong

  Maturity, Mind, Months

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Generosity, Forever

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• Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.

  Walter J. Ong

  Closure, States, Found

  Walter J. Ong (2013). “Orality and Literacy”, p.129, Routledge

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• Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Self

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.418, Courier Corporation

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• Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse themselves with a shrug of the shoulders for not being capable of it. It is a decisive insight of faith itself that all of us are incapable of faith in ourselves, whether we think of its preparation, beginning, continuation, or completion.

  Karl Barth

  Art, Atheist, Thinking

  "A Karl Barth Reader".

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• A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy, a novel whose shiftless characters, in search of completion and contentment, must wrestle with that prerequisite of faith: a willingness to believe in the unseen.

  Christine Schutt

  Believe, Blessed, Character

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• Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for the previous 5 years. It was recorded simultaneously with Black Knights' Medieval Chamber, and as different as the two albums appear to be, they represent one investigative creative thought process. What I learned from one fed directly into the other. Enclosure is presently my last word on the musical statement which began with PBX.

  John Frusciante

  Years, Two, Knights

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