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• The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Order, Law, Giving

  1972 'Apologia', in the Harvard Law Review, Jun.

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• Why should poetry have to make sense?

  Charlie Chaplin

  Should, Lulls

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• The source of our love comes from within. No one out there is that source. It makes sense to go to the source.

  Susan Jeffers

  Self Love, Our Love, Source

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• It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspiration, Learning, Creativity

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• Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

  Gerhard Richter

  Religious, Art, Views

  Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2002). “Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting”, p.86, The Museum of Modern Art

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• First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal government to control drug rules. And the idea of using a controlled substance to end somebody's life is something I don't agree with. I can see the idea of using controlled substances to ease somebody's pain. That makes sense.

  George W. Bush

  Suicide, Pain, Believe

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• When nothing makes sense and the world seems upside down, listen to your heart, it will never lie about your true feelings.

  Leon Brown

  Inspirational, Lying, Heart

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• The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  Life, Differences, Scripts

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• I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.

  Lynda Benglis

  Art, Believe, Doe

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• The Koran claims for itself that it is "mubeen," or clear. But if you look at it, you will notice that every fifth sentence or so simply doesnt make sense. Many Muslims and Orientalists will tell you otherwise, of course, but the fact is that a fifth of the Koranic text is just incomprehensible.

  Gerd R. Puin

  Islam, Looks, Facts

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• I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist. Each book hopefully adds another piece to the jigsaw that is modern Scotland, asking questions about the nation's politics, economy, psyche and history ... and perhaps pointing towards its possible future.

  Ian Rankin

  Book, Writing, Asking Questions

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• Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in the city during the week seemed chaotic and unrelated to the events in my mountain world.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, Cities, Two

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• At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to 'hear through the eyes'.

  Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Art, Creativity

  Paul Caponigro (2002). “New England Days”, p.38, David R. Godine Publisher

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• To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.

  Ayn Rand

  Nature, Doe, Demand

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.260, Hamilton Books

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• I'm a great believer in the hereafter, in karma, in reincarnation. It does make sense. I believe that God is not just a law-giver, but a creative artist. The greatest of all. And what characterises artists is that they want to redo their work. Maybe it didn't come off perfectly, so they want to see it done again, and improved. Reincarnation is a way for God to improve his earlier works.

  Norman Mailer

  Karma, Believe, Artist

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• Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing 'science' rather than the less tidy task of observing the world and trying to make sense of it. This, after all, is done by mere historians, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and (heaven forbid) even journalists. Economists are loath to admit that they belong in such raffish company.

  Robert J. Samuelson

  Thinking, People, Heaven

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• Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we must learn to make sense of statements that at least resemble these. What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a re-interpretation of individual and stable data. In the first place, the data are not unequivocally stable.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Science, Data, Understanding

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.121, University of Chicago Press

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• Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they want. Of course, the more closely he meets their needs, the less "persuasive" he has to be, but in no case does it make sense to speak as if his role is force submission. Rather it is to strengthen and uplift, to make people feel that they are the origins, not the pawns, of the socio-political system.

  David McClelland

  Uplifting, Thinking, Ideas

  "Leadership: what every leader should know about people". Book by Robert A. Portnoy (p. 16), 1986.

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• Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic agriculture is proving to be a serious contender in modern farming and a more environmentally sustainable system over the long term.

  David Suzuki

  Agriculture, Practice, Long

  David Suzuki, David Taylor (2009). “The Big Picture: Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet”, p.184, Greystone Books

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• Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it out for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves.

  Frank Pittman

  Family, Past, Two

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• I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your title.' He showed me little methods of proving to yourself whether the line belongs, and ways of finding out whether you were able to get more out of a line if you tried.

  Merle Haggard

  Song, Thinking, Littles

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• Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

  Florence King

  Football, Laughter, Healing

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.140, Macmillan

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• Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Writing, Jigsaw Puzzles, Pieces

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• What happens a lot with songwriting is that a melody or rhythm or something stays with you like catching a cold. And during that time what happens is that I can then fit things on to it, it all fits and glues together. Sometimes it's crazy cos it can almost be anything. But if you catch the cold then the nonsense makes sense. It's like you're getting beamed it, like with a ouija board and something's pushing your hand. It's not a pleasant experience necessarily.

  Thom Yorke

  Crazy, Hands, Together

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• Our responsibility is to love God and to love our neighbour which is what Jesus taught and it's also what Judaism taught - and that would make sense because Jesus was Jewish.

  Amy-Jill Levine

  Jesus, Responsibility, Taught

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