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• The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.

  John Berger

  Reality, Finishing, Impossible

  John Berger (2014). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.158, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Mean, Giving

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• Jesus' power is the power of human wholeness that ultimately opens, invites and enables human beings to step beyond defense lines where incomplete humanity always hides in order to experience full humanity.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Order, Humanity

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• To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke.

  Paul Klee

  Lasts, Harmony, Achieve

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• I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete.

  Martin Seligman

  Wisdom, Believe, Traditional

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• There are complete men and incomplete men. If you would be a complete man, put all of your soul's strength into all of your life's actions.

  Eugenio Maria de Hostos

  Character, Men, Soul

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• Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

  Anthony Shadid

  Art, Pieces, Journalism

  "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.

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• I want to set the record straight for everybody who's been waiting to hear my music. The song that's out on the internet is an incomplete song that I'm still working on. When it's ready, you'll be hearing it from me.

  Dr. Dre

  Song, Waiting, Records

  "Dr. Dre Says Leaked 'Under Pressure' Was 'An Incomplete Song'" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. June 17, 2010.

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• An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power.

  Richard Schmid

  Power

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• I like newspaper stories that are incomplete, that give me room to imagine the rest. It's no good to me reading about something that's all neatly solved and wrapped up. That's why so many of my stories revolve around human psychology, around why someone commits a certain crime, or series of crimes. I don't profess to know the answers but I like to explore the possibilities.

  Peter Robinson

  Reading, Giving, Psychology

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• How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.

  Christopher Fry

  Nature, Conclusion, Knows

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays Two”, p.61, Oberon Books

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• A doctor's authority in America often exceeds his or her knowledge. Whole bodies of knowledge in healing are ignored because they are unorthodox and non-medical. A doctor's education seems exhaustive, yet MDs study so much about drugs and surgery - and so little about nutrition, fasting, herbal remedies, spinal manipulation, massage, vitamin and mineral therapy, homeopathy, and more - that we realize their qualifications are incomplete.

  Andrew Saul

  Healing, Vitamins And Minerals, America

  Source: www.drpasswater.com

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• To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.

  Elihu Root

  War, Civilization, Causes

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and sketches weigh you down, because they have something unfinished, incomplete, about them. So it's better to present the usable material in an orderly fashion and throw the other stuff away. That's how the Atlas came to be, and I exhibited it a few times.

  Gerhard Richter

  Fashion, Art, Motivation

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Oct 29, 2013

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• But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Thinking, Democracy, Progress

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• My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention.

  Joyce Banda

  Husband, Legacy, Stories

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• The story I tell is so incomplete, five kids in the house and no food to eat.

  Too $hort

  Kids, Reality, House

  Song: The Ghetto

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• It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Reality, Ideas

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets”, p.629

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• People are saying that they want be convinced [about global warming], perfectly. They want to know the climate science projections with 100 per cent certainty. Well, we know a great deal and even with that there is still uncertainty. But the trend line is very clear. We never have 100 per cent certainty. We never have it. If you wait till you have 100 per cent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield. That's something we know. You have to act with incomplete information. You have to act based on the trend line.

  Gordon R. Sullivan

  People, Waiting, Environmental

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• It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why we need art. By expressing our actual experience, the artist reminds us that our science is incomplete, that no map of matter will ever explain the immateriality of our consciousness.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Art, Reality, Ironic

  Jonah Lehrer (2011). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.12, Canongate Books

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• The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.

  Ben Macintyre

  Book, Men, Games

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• People don't have an ongoing relation unless it's a form of debt because everything is an exchange, so ongoing relationships are incomplete exchanges, and therefore one party is probably to blame - more likely than not, both are. Sociality itself seems to become like a matter of sin, and inherently wrong.

  David Graeber

  Party, People, Ongoing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Dream, Opportunity, Giving

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• If we try to hold on to our partial glimpses of the divine, we cut it down to our own size and close our minds. Like it or nor, our human experience of anything or anybody is always incomplete: there is usually something that eludes us, some portion of experience that evades our grasp.

  Karen Armstrong

  Cutting, Elude Us, Mind

  Karen Armstrong (2007). “The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness”, p.218, Anchor

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• Photographs should celebrate the contingent, the spontaneous, the incomplete, the fortuitous. Direct, unblinking vision should be coupled with deliberate indifference as to subject. The ironic goal is a scrupulous recording of whatever chance brings to hand.

  Douglas McCulloh

  Hands, Goal, Ironic

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