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• So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.

  Rene Descartes

  Lying, Risk, Curiosity

  RENE DESCARTES (1952). “RULES FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE MIND DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MEDITATIONS AND REPLIES THE GEOMETRY”

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• The root of all our personal and emotional difficulties is a lack of togetherness... I therefore believe that the surest route to overcoming problems and becoming the people we were meant to be is reconnecting with God and with our community.

  Larry Crabb

  Believe, Emotional, Roots

  Larry Crabb (2005). “Connecting: Healing Ourselves and Our Relationships”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When we find ourselves in the same situation repeatedly as a result of our conditioned responses, we must stop and do a new thing. The situation may look different. The route we take there may be altogether different. The lesson we must learn does not change. Get honest! Pay attention! Change what you do to create a change for yourself!

  Iyanla Vanzant

  May, Pay, Doe

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from May 09, 2016

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• Bad news travels fast. Good news takes the scenic route.

  Doug Larson

  News, Scenic, Good News

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• Just because you’ve come to a dead end, it’s not time to give up. Find a different route and keep pressing forward.

  Joel Osteen

  Giving Up, Different, Dead Ends

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• Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.

  J. K. Rowling

  Self, Ability, Findings

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• If you know anything about me, you know that my life's taken a few unexpected curves and crashes along the way. But hey, at least I can say I took the scenic route!

  Naomi Judd

  Life, Taken, Curves

  Naomi Judd (2005). “Naomi's Breakthrough Guide: 20 Choices to Transform Your Life”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street.

  John Lasseter

  Growing Up, Curls, Details

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• It is the first vision that counts. The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other... for no two visions are alike, and those who reach the heights have all toiled up steep mountains by a different route. To each has been revealed a different panorama.

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Dream, Artist, Two

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• There is no one road to success, you must find your own route.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Road To Success

  Twitter post from Feb 19, 2015

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• God's ultimate concern is not to get you or me from point A to point B along the quickest, easiest, smoothest, clearest route possible. Instead, his ultimate concern is that you and I would know him deeply as we trust him more completely.

  David Platt

  Concern, Knows, Ultimate

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• When we have a clear sense of our destination, we can be flexible in the route we take to reach it.

  Simon Sinek

  Destination, Clear, Flexible

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• If we don't get lost, we'll never find a new route.

  Joan Littlewood

  Inspirational, Lost, Ifs

  Joan Littlewood (2016). “Joan's Book: The Autobiography of Joan Littlewood”, p.484, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• (Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth

  Jacques Ellul

  Character, Two, Manipulation

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• If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.

  Nia Vardalos

  Inspirational, Daughter, Mother

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• Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

  A. R. Ammons

  Sight, Events, Anticipation

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• For me, in songwriting, I have a route I can take. Maybe there's some forks, I can go this way, this way. But I know those roads. I still have the experience behind me.

  Dave Matthews

  Way, Forks, Songwriting

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• Starting with the highest-risk countries, and focusing on the route to Britain that is widely abused, student visas, we will increase the number of interviews to considerably more than 100,000, starting next financial year. From there, we will extend the interviewing programme further across all routes to Britain, wherever the evidence takes us.

  Theresa May

  Country, Years, Numbers

  "100,000 students coming to UK face immigration interviews" by Nicholas Watt, Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2012.

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• When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Dark, Different

  "Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic". Interview, www.wired.com. February 23, 2009.

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• I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people's support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Running, Thinking

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• If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Character, Handouts, Permanent

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969”, p.645, Best Books on

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• I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.

  Chuck Norris

  Determination, Accomplish Your Goals, Overcoming

  "The Elephant And The Twig: The Art of Positive Thinking". Book by Geoff Thompson, 2007.

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• Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

  Frank Ocean

  Math, People, Focus

  Interview with Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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• It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from.

  Suze Orman

  Maps, Impossible, Starting

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• Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically - me and Nick - said what would we do, where would we head?

  Simon Pegg

  Thinking, Should Have, Events

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