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• Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Beauty, Song, Art

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• The Iranians are Moslems and the Iraqi are Moslems. Both are certain that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is his prophet and believe it with all their hearts. And yet, at the moment, Iraq doesn't trust Iran worth a damn, and Iran trusts Iraq even less than that. In fact, Iran is convinced that Iraq is in the pay of the Great Satan (that's God-fearing America, in case you've forgotten) and Iraq counters with the accusation that it is Iran who is in the pay of the Great Satan. Neither side is accusing the Godless Soviets of anything, which is a puzzle

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Heart, Iran

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• Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Wisdom, Commitment, Successful

  "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions". Book by Thomas Kuhn, 1962.

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• Catching fish is not a mental game between fish and angler. A 'smart' trout is only smarter than other trout, not smarter than a fisherman. An angler must take the puzzle of the day's conditions, and matching those conditions and his knowledge of the fish come up with a good catch. He competes with a concept, not with a fish's brain.

  Lee Wulff

  Smart, Sea, Fishing

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• You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.

  Gary Coleman

  Creativity, People, Brain

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• I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways.

  Christian Marclay

  Together, Way, Pieces

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• Perhaps art can help us to look beyond the immediate beauty with all its puzzles, and to glimpse that new creation which makes sense not only of beauty but of the world as a whole, and ourselves within it ... The artist can then join forces with those who work for justice and those who struggle for redemptive relationships, and together encourage and sustain those who are reaching out for a genuine, redemptive spirituality.

  N. T. Wright

  Art, Struggle, Justice

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• Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

  Kathy Reichs

  Fun, Murder Mysteries, Mystery

  "Face to face with death" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2006.

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• Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Tools, Actors, Pieces

  Interview with Sarah Paulson, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2012.

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• The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Important, President, Signatures

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• I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.

  Graham Nelson

  Trying, Way, Easy

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• Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.

  Walter Murch

  Views, Film, Point Of View

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• Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.

  Brandi Carlile

  Writing, People, Feelings

  "A passion for helping people" by Paul Freeman, www.mercurynews.com. August 15, 2012.

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• I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.

  Brian Jacques

  Dog, Enjoy, Crosswords

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• I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

  Brett Hull

  Sports, Patient, Impatience

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• My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.

  Lisa Gardner

  Parent, Secret, Vices

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• Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.

  B. W. Powe

  Canada, Add, Whole Picture

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

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• Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Writing, Journey, Needs

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• I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs. The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue. Witness is borne and puzzles come together at the photographic moment which is very simple and complete. The mind-finger presses the release on the silly machine and it stops time and holds what its jaws can encompass and what the light will stain.

  Lee Friedlander

  Wall, Silly, Simple

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• Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Interesting, Age, Passionate

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.11, Knopf

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• I think that, if we do anything in a positive sense for the world, is provide one little bit of context, that's very specifically focused, and hopefully people can add to their entire puzzle that gives them a larger picture of what it is that they see.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• When I first set out to ruin SNL, I didn't think anyone would notice, but I persevered because - like you trying to do a nine-piece jigsaw puzzle - it was a labour of love.

  Tina Fey

  Thinking, Jigsaw Puzzles, Trying

  "Tina Fey: 'Ugly, pear-shaped and bitchy? I prefer offbeat, business class-assed and exhausted'" by Tina Fey, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2011.

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• Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.

  Leonora Carrington

  Giving, Competition, Wonderful

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• I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.

  Georgette Heyer

  Sleep, Giving, Imagine

  Georgette Heyer (2010). “Behold, Here's Poison”, p.291, Random House

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• He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.

  Sarah Dessen

  Nice, Simple, Two

  "What Happened To Goodbye". Book by Sarah Dessen, May 10, 2011.

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