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• I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.

  John Forbes Nash

  Math, Suffering, Doubt

  Statement of 1996, as quoted in "Dr. Riemann's Zeros" by Karl Sabbagh, (p. 88), 2003.

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• Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct

  Marcel Marceau

  Inspiration, Simple, Deceitful

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• Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons for doing so - the imperative, invincible call of God. No one is to show cause why he ought not to be a Minister: he is to show cause why he should be a Minister. His call to the sacred profession is not the absence of a call to any other pursuit; it is direct, immediate, powerful, to this very department of labour. He is not here because he can be nowhere else, but he is nowhere else because he must be here.

  James Henley Thornwell

  Christian, Powerful, Rich Or Poor

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• If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the phenomenon as an active, animate entity with which we find ourselves engaged. To the sensing body, no thing presents itself as utterly passive or inert. Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.

  David Abram

  Hands, Experience, Wish

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• Pure love is who you are! When you express pure love, you give yourself the direct experience of who you are. It is the greatest gift! It looks as if your giving a gift to others, and you are giving it to yourself, that is because there is no one else in the room, it only looks as if there is.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love You, Love Is, Giving

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.134, Penguin

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• Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.

  Mike Dunlap

  Proportion, Free Time

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• The decisions we make in Washington have a direct impact on the people in our country, obviously.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Impact, Decisions We Make

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.1464, Government Printing Office

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• For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

  Peter Jackson

  Childhood, Want, Knows

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• Even despots accept the excellence of liberty. The simple truth is that they wish to keep it for themselves and promote the idea that no one else is at all worthy of it. Thus, our opinion
  of liberty does not reveal our differences but the relative value which we place on our fellow man. We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is
  in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Simple, Men

  "'L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution' ('The Old Regime and the Revolution')". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, translated by Gerald Bevan. Author's Foreword, 2008.

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• There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his [sic] activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Thinking, Purpose

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• With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Powerful, Sight, Ideas

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.228, David R. Godine Publisher

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• If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we'll see. I'm taking it day by day.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Writing, Process, Ifs

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

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• Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

  Dick Gephardt

  Voting, Democracy, Internet

  Twitter post from Nov 07, 2016

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• Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things people did to each other every day? They just carried on life and pretended like the evil didn't exist, as long as it was happening out of their direct view.

  Rachel Caine

  Responsibility, Views, Long

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• If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.

  Phil Foglio

  Action, Ifs

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• Fling yourself at life and let yourself feel what you do feel upon the very tick of the second; snatch the images of life that fly through the brain. If you are very frank with yourself and don't mind how ridiculous anything that comes to you may seem, you will have a chance of capturing the symbols of your direct reactions. Thus, you will, perhaps, find yourself reaching a heightened sense of awareness completely outside the realm of mundane experience.

  Mina Loy

  Brain, Finding Yourself, Mind

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• Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process only from its modern results, then we are usually stymied or reduced to speculation about probabilities. For many roads lead to almost any Rome.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Rome, Fossils, Causes

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.34, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use
  of the book of the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Men, Race

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer”, p.83, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Appreciation, Pride, Vanity

  "Parerga and Paralipomena". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer. Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life, Vol. 1, Ch. 4, § 2, 1851.

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• The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

  Steven Weinberg

  Beauty, Art, Groups

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• The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an analog to the ideologue, who is likewise devoid of common sense, independent ego, culture, intuitive intelligence, etc.: all the ideologue has to orient himself by is the formalist or abstractivist directives inlaid in modern mass-culture. Both are forms of the True Believer, minds in whom factors of self-active life are reduced to negligibility and pathos reigns.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Independent, Self

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• We will become mightier and more powerful in our own right in direct proportion to the service and contribution we make to strengthen the Church.

  Henry D. Moyle

  Powerful, Church, Proportion

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• I am extremely respectful of the Jewish community. You know, I am Christian. I think of Jews as my older brothers. I mean, there wouldn't be Christianity without the Jewish religion. There is a direct connection between the two of them.

  Joe Lhota

  Christian, Brother, Mean

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• There is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God.

  Jodie Foster

  Believe, Evidence, Ask Me

  Interview with Dan McLeod, The Georgia Straight, July 10-17, 1997.

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• To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Silence, Way, Becoming

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.103, New World Library

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