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  Criticism is something we can avoid easily
  by saying nothing, doing nothing,
  and being nothing.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Relationship, Failure

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• It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.

  Rick Warren

  Destiny, Identity, Purpose

  Rick Warren (2007). “The Purpose Driven Life Dvd Study Guide: A Six-session Video-based Study for Groups Or Individuals”, p.93, Harper Collins

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• In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Path, Resources, Turns

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2011.

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• Those who deny the change in consciousness that the divine process of creation now brings about-or actually imposes on us-and fail to develop their intuition accordingly will sooner or later find themselves at a dead end.

  Carl Johan Calleman

  Intuition, Consciousness, Failing

  Carl Johan Calleman (2004). “The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration.

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Car, Trying

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.57, Ballantine Books

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• God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm.

  Martin Laird

  Taken, Humanity, Bruises

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• Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Extinction, Way, Blind

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• An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.

  Frank Wilczek

  Mistake, Profound, Progress

  Frank Wilczek (2009). “The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• If you attack a mathematical problem directly, very often you come to a dead end, nothing you do seems to work and you feel that if only you could peer round the corner there might be an easy solution. There is nothing like having somebody else beside you, because he can usually peer round the corner.

  Michael Atiyah

  Peers, Might, Problem

  Michael Atiyah (1988). “Collected Works: Michael Atiyah Collected Works: Volume 1: Early Papers; General Papers”, p.214, Oxford University Press

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• There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It's usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I never really settle for one.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Demand, Settling, Natural

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end.

  Jonathan Chait

  Ideas, Trump, Coalitions

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I live at the end of a dead end one way street. I don't know how I got there.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Way

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• With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary key to our being or non-being resides in each individual human heart, in the heart’s preference for specific good or evil. Yet this remains true even today, and it is, in fact, the most reliable key we have. The social theories that promised so much have demonstrated their bankruptcy, leaving us at a dead end.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Heart, Keys, Mountain Ranges

  "Have We Forgotten God?" by John W. Whitehead, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Data, Scientific Method, Way

  "How Beer, Oprah and Sergey Brin can help cure aging". Interview with Steven Leckart, www.wired.com. October 19, 2010.

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• We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.

  Julia Cameron

  Time, Writing, Perfect

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.23, Penguin

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• I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty - the mistakes and dead ends - that artists develop, not through the quick solutions and not from something you learn and apply.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Mistake, Artist, Want

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• There's no such thing as a lost cause, or a dead end. Through persistence, attitude, and creativity, there's always an escape route.

  Urijah Faber

  Attitude, Creativity, Persistence

  FaceBook post by Urijah Faber from Oct 08, 2013

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• In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery comedies, horror and thrillers, teen movies and love-stories. All these and more will be a positive step towards the future of Native Americans in the world and film industry; an industry that that offers us not only the chance to play the parts of heroes, love interests and warriors, but also of villains, dorks and dangerous, brokenhearted products of circumstance.

  Misty Upham

  Hero, Native American, Warrior

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• Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants.

  Woody Allen

  Cutting, Guy, Intellectual

  "Sleeper". www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead-end street.

  Dave Grohl

  Two, Years, Signatures

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fighting, Animal, Spirit

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• A lot of ideas took us to dead ends or we found the tone wasn’t just right. I think we discovered very quickly this wasn’t just a song to end The Battle of the Five Armies — it was a song to say goodbye to Middle-earth.

  Billy Boyd

  Goodbye, Song, Army

  “THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES: Check Out the Music Video for Billy Boyd’s ‘The Last Goodbye’” by Prtti Nemiroff, collider.com. November 21, 2014.

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• When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Thinking, Interesting

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• War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

  Alice Walker

  Country, War, Iraq

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.244, New Press, The

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