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• I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.

  Assata Shakur

  Wall, Cells, Years

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• It frankly does not make sense to occasionally 'fill up' with water, with long periods of dehydration in between. The same thing is true spiritually. Spiritual thirst is a need for living water. A constant flow of living water is far superior to sporadic sipping.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Long, Water

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• People expect the math to be simplified, but I want to surprise them right from the start. When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.

  Simon McBurney

  Math, People, Brain

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• Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Believe, Practice, Chess

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• Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to bear on making sense of their illusions and delusions. What then would the truth have to be, such that such human beings are FIT TO KNOW IT at all, even provisionally or tentatively?

  Kenny Smith

  Fitness, Truth, Practice

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• Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to [grow and] become successful. For that reason it makes sense to be grateful for adversities that help you grow, even if it is only in understanding and compassion for other's suffering.

  Zig Ziglar

  Gratitude, Grateful, Adversity

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• When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

  Enrico Bombieri

  Math, Sometimes, Wonder

  "The Myth of Executive Functioning". Book by Leonard F. Koziol, p. 1, 2014.

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• Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

  Douglas Coupland

  Lazy, Way, Chaos

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “All Families are Psychotic”, p.120, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Book, Long, People

  Jennifer Chiaverini (2013). “An Elm Creek Quilts Companion: New Fiction, Traditions, Quilts, and Favorite Moments from the Beloved Series”, p.12, Penguin

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• What we know about diets hasn't changed. It still makes sense to eat lots of fruits and vegetables, balance calories from other foods, and keep calories under control. That, however, does not make front-page news.

  Marion Nestle

  Vegetables, Balance, Doe

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• I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.

  Grace Hartigan

  Ideas, House, Bird

  "Contemporary Artists: A-K" by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, (p. 680), 2002.

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• Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

  Al Jardine

  Brother, Dad, Musical

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• I wanted to know what it was like to be a drug addict, and have an eating disorder, and have a loved one die, and fall in love. I saw my friends going through these things, I saw the world going through these things, and I needed to understand them. I needed to make sense of them. Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books, and it was books that showed me there is light at the end of the tunnel.

  Jackson Pearce

  Falling In Love, Book, Tunnels

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• It doesn't pay to ignore warnings. Even when they don't make sense.

  Debra Doyle

  Warning, Pay

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• We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here, and what will become of us. Whenever humans try to make sense of their experience, they create a story, and we use those stories to answer all the big questions of life. The stories come from everywhere--from family, church, school, and the culture at large. They so surround and inhabit us that we often don't recognize that they are stories at all, breathing them in and out as a fish breathes water.

  Daniel Taylor

  School, Breathing, Water

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• By God's design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It's how we learn. It's how we make sense of the world. Characters, situations, moral consequences are all around us.

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Believe, Heart, Character

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• There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.

  Bill de Blasio

  Struggle, Thinking, Complicated World

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

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• What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure

  Aaron Betsky

  Law, Syntax, Structure

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• Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently.

  Paul Smith

  Thinking, Logic, Predictable

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• Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Active

  Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.26, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• My mom always used to say, "You can't say I love you before you can say I." And I think that sort of makes sense.

  Mindy Kaling

  Relationship, Mom, Love You

  "The Love Advice Mindy Kaling Received From Her Late Mother". Interview with Gerri Miller, www.yourtango.com. April 1, 2014.

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• There is something within our biological structure that screams out and says it is morally wrong for the old to outlive the young. This is one of the times when God doesn’t seem to make sense. This is the worst that life gets.

  Rick Atkinson

  Scream, Structure, Young

  Rick Atkinson (1993). “Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it.

  Sherwood Washburn

  Writing, Trying, Paper

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• Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to ask it. He is welcome to tell me that the question does not make sense. Scientifically speaking, it does not. Metaphysically speaking, however, it does. Science can account for many things in the world; it may some day account for all that which the world of phenomena actually is. But why anything at all is, or exists, science knows not, precisely because it cannot even ask the question.

  Etienne Gilson

  Science, Understanding, Doe

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• I tried to make sense of the Four Books,
  until love arrived,
  and it all became a single syllable.

  Yunus Emre

  Book, Four, Syllables

  Yunus Emre (1989). “The Drop that Became the Sea: Lyric Poems of Yunus Emre”, Shambhala Publications

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