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• Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.

  Oswald Chambers

  Cutting, Evil, Temptation

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Character, Cutting, Television

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• Of course, the whole photographic process has been made much faster, cleaner and far more accessible to people by digital innovations, which is really great. Everybody now has a camera, often as part of our phone, and most of these cameras require little to no technical training. An enormous variety of apps also enable us to take short cuts to finished images. We hardly need to even think anymore.

  Michael Kenna

  Cutting, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

  Margaret Deland

  Cutting, Taste, Unhappiness

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• There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

  Vincent McNabb

  Patience, Cutting, Heaven

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• that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!

  Vita Sackville-West

  Sex, Memories, Loneliness

  Victoria Sackville-West, Vita Sackville-West (1985). “No Signposts in the Sea”, Penguin Group USA

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• You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescense, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time.

  Kingsley Amis

  Sex, Cutting, Maturity

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• I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.

  Jim Morrison

  Cutting, Thinking, Useless

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• The South Vietnamese were perhaps a little bit slow in doing things, they jump on, on the problem and they try to do themselves everything. Or, they try to have some short cuts with the, those people they were dealing with.

  Bui Diem

  Cutting, People, Trying

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• I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no-one and there were no short cuts for me. I was self-taught the hard way, by trial and error.

  George Rodger

  Cutting, Errors, Self

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• You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable with the word God because I don't have the foggiest idea of what it means.

  Stephen Levine

  Mean, Cutting, Ideas

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• Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that is necessarily difficult in genuine art. Repin, or kitsch, is synthetic art.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Cutting, Kitsch

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up having to take are the ones that are most telling in the main characters.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Character, Cutting, Digital

  Source: collider.com

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• Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

  James Altucher

  Cutting, Games, Get Better

  "How To Master The Game Of Life" by James Altucher, www.businessinsider.com. October 6, 2014.

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• I always say, I'm a woman, I can't change my sex. I can't get angry about it. I'm too busy desperately trying to get my movies made. It's hard work. There are no short cuts. If there were, I would have found them by now.

  Ruba Nadda

  Sex, Hard Work, Cutting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool, and between the cracking of a marrow-bone and the riding down town in an automobile lies only a difference of degree.

  Jack London

  Lying, Cutting, Rocks

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.464, Delphi Classics

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• Photos represent primarily a seductive but deleterious short cut.

  Paul Kane

  Photography, Cutting, Seductive

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• Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.

  Elsie Clews Parsons

  Educational, Cutting, Excellence

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• There is no short cut to God; sadhana must be performed regularly and with devotion. It is our own effort which will enable us to experience the grace of God which is being showered on us all the time. Therefore, whatever spare time you get, use it to seek God. If you create peace in your own heart by doing sadhana, then that will have a positive effect on your family, your work and so on. The peace and love of God will overflow out of your heart and encourage others to move on the right path.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Moving, Heart, Cutting

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• Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Cutting, Reason, Rational

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (51), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.

  David Stockman

  Cutting, Hair, Overcoming

  David Stockman (2013). “The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed”, p.75, PublicAffairs

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• Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried, do battle, and suffer if you are to acquire the truth for yourself. It is a sheer illusion to think that in relation to the truth there is an abridgement, a short cut that dispenses with the necessity for struggling for it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Dream, Struggle

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• Give up the struggle and the fight; relax in the omnipotence of the Lord Jesus; look up into His lovely face and as you behold Him, He will transform you into His likeness. You do the beholding - He does the transforming. There is no short-cut to holiness.

  Alan Redpath

  Jesus, Giving Up, Struggle

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• They go the long way but we take the short cut Give me the blonde hair, long weave, short cut

  Nicki Minaj

  Cutting, Hair, Giving

  Song: Girls Fall Like Dominoes, Album: Pink Friday, 2010

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• The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

  Lowell Thomas

  Cutting, Men, Crowds

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