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• In one equation you can solve all the puzzles of life. It is the equation of giving.

  Amit Ray

  Giving, Solve, Equations

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• I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life before me, I reassembled the tableau of her words like a picture puzzle, and as I did, so my own life was rebuilt.

  James McBride

  Kids, Self, Toys

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• The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for so long by the rigidity of traditional scholarship, is as exciting and surprising as a bestselling murder mystery; I simply couldn't put it down. Through scholarly brilliance and passion, Adrienne Mayor has opened the door to a forgotten world of gender equality, and her book ought to be required reading in every college history course.

  Anne Fortier

  Book, Reading, Passion

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• We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. We inhabit singledom as our natural resting state...Secretly, we are romantics, romantics of the highest order. We want a miracle. Out of millions we have to find the one who will understand. For the quirkyalone, there is no patience for dating just for the sake of not being alone. On a fine but by no means transcendent date, we dream of going home to watch television. We would prfer to be alone with our own thoughts than with a less than perfect fit...but when the quirkyalone collides with another, ooh la la. The earth quakes.

  Sasha Cagen

  Dream, Mean, Home

  "Original Essay" by Sasha Cagen, quirkyalone.net. July 2000.

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• There are only three great puzzles in the world, the puzzle of love, the puzzle of death, and, between each of these and part of both of them, the puzzle of God. God is the greatest puzzle of all.

  Niall Williams

  Three, World

  Niall Williams (2010). “As It Is in Heaven”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• Life is a puzzle. Every piece fits together to create who we are, what we do, how we feel. Every experience shapes us into who we will eventually become.

  Kyle

  Together, Pieces, Shapes

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• It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

  Albert Einstein

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

  "'Mysterious Benedict': Solve A Puzzle, Save The World". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. March 26, 2012.

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• BJJ is like trying to solve a puzzle that keeps changing..so magnificent... yet completely humbling.

  Phillipe Nover

  Mma, Trying, Humbling

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• I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Moving, Writing, Editing

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• It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and the efforts to do it, it seems to me, result in greater damage than it can do itself. After all, it was not an invention of man, but of God.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Sex, Men, Thinking

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• Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.

  Arnold Palmer

  Children, Golf, Simple

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• The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Sex, Clerks, Twenties

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.237, Penguin

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• We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me
  why American men think that success is everything
  when they know that eighty percent of them are not
  going to succeed more than to just keep going and why
  if they are not why do they not keep on being
  interested in the things that interested them when
  they were college men and why American men different
  from English men do not get more interesting as they
  get older.

  Gertrude Stein

  Success, College, Men

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• By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

  Pablo Picasso

  Games, Idlers, Amusement

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• The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain its presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man.

  James Whistler

  Flower, Artist, Men

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.

  Christopher Bollen

  Writing, Trying, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.

  Christopher Bollen

  Games, Creating, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature to want to solve puzzles.

  Michael Loceff

  Math, Thinking, People

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to sing and sound good together and suit the melody, I think most of the best songs in the world are fairly clear about what they mean to say.

  J. Robbins

  Song, Mean, Thinking

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• The discovery which has been pointed to by theory is always one of profound interest and importance, but it is usually the close and crown of a long and fruitful period, whereas the discovery which comes as a puzzle and surprise usually marks a fresh epoch and opens a new chapter in science.

  Oliver Lodge

  Science, Discovery, Long

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• As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed under any fitness or unfitness of natural selection; and especially scarlet fever affected boys seriously, both physically and in character, though they might through life puzzle themselves to decide whether it had fitted or unfitted them for success.

  Henry Adams

  Character, Mean, Boys

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.10, Booklassic

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• It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!

  Fred Rogers

  People, Feels

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.23, Penguin

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• Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a while longer, but I wasn't lucky. Nothing seemed to fit without a whole lot of work.Then I had this thought: What if it was enough to realize that you would die someday, that none of this would go on forever? Would that be enough?

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Forever, What If, Dying

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.255, Pan Macmillan

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• A hockey team is like a puzzle. Every piece is vital.

  Bob Hartley

  Team, Hockey, Pieces

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