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• God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at the same time informed, he desires to enlighten by his special grace. What must we think of a revelation which, far from teaching us any thing, is calculated to darken and puzzle the clearest ideas?

  Baron d'Holbach

  Teaching, Thinking, Ideas

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• It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?

  Dizzy Dean

  Oil, Pitching, Filling

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• You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Inspirational, Movie, Moving On

  "A Higher Calling" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. December 19, 2008.

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• What do you think deja vu is for?". Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

  Timothy Leary

  Girl, Past, Men

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• Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.

  Lara Spencer

  Style, Together, Pieces

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• It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

  Paul Muldoon

  Book, Writing, Trying

  "Paul Muldoon: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 26, 2003.

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• Why is there such insistence that AGW has occurred and needs drastic solutions? This is a puzzle, but my short answer is that the IPCC has been built on the AGW proposition and of course keeps plugging it, whatever the data say. The IPCC has considerable clout. Most people shy off inspecting the evidence because it looks like science and must therefore be hard. The media have been captured by AGW (it makes for great stories), the environmental movement and the Greens love it, and business is reluctant to get involved.

  Don Aitkin

  Media, Data, People

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• lf there is anything that puzzles me in this game lt is that the longer that you are in the job of Prime Minister, the harder you have to work to do your job. With anything else, such as stenography, administering a store, or whatever done it for nine or ten years you get to know the ropes pretty well and it becomes easy and you can spend a lot of time playing golf or something. l feel that the more you know, the more you have to know and the more problems come.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Jobs, Government, Games

  "Pierre Elliott Trudeau".

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• The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.

  Frank Dobson

  Drinking, Government, People

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• If there's anything I know about directing, it's how to make actors comfortable. It's where I started and it's what I know, and it's what I love. I like when the actors are really partners and I want them to be excited and I want them to surprise me. I don't want them to be puzzle pieces.

  John Cameron Mitchell

  Actors, Pieces, Want

  "'Rabbit Hole' director inspired by personal tragedies". Interview with Cassie Carpenter, www.reuters.com. December 20, 2010.

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• And I try to piece the puzzle of the universe, Split an eight of shrooms just so I could see the universe !

  Kid Cudi

  Eight, Trying, Pieces

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• I'll never get why the earth is a puzzle that i'll never fit.

  Kid Cudi

  Earth, Fit

  Song: Do It Alone

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• Alec Nevala-Lee comes roaring out of the gate with a novel that's as thrilling as it is thought-provoking, as unexpected as it is erudite. The Icon Thief is a wild ride through a fascinating and morally complex world, a puzzle Duchamp himself would have applauded. Bravo.

  Jesse Kellerman

  Icons, Thought Provoking, Roaring

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• If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I ever became a model. I am an extremely private person and I do not have the temperament for fame. I think I was rather ashamed of this trivial way of earning a living.

  Jean Shrimpton

  Thinking, Way, Earning

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• Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Kids, Math

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• Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually -- without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Struggle, Giving, Doubt

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• A-not-complete-unit, or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together. One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of "thought." It is not "thought" which needs showing.

  Jasper Johns

  Ideas, Together, Needs

  Richard Francis, Jasper Johns (1984). “Jasper Johns”, Abbeville Pr

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• In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

  Jon Postel

  Writing, Jigsaw Puzzles, Class

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• I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory observations, that do but perplex and puzzle the Student, when he compares them, or misguide him if he gives himself up to their authority; but bringing them under one general head, can alone give rest and satisfaction to an inquisitive mind.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Confused, Mean, Science

  sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”, p.13

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• Much of the fire with him [Ben Hogan] was lit by Byron Nelson, who came from the same town - the same caddie yard - and achieved fame and fortune several years ahead of Ben and who, as a kid, had always been popular and better liked than Ben. No puzzle at all.

  Dan Jenkins

  Kids, Golf, Fire

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• The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...

  Pablo Neruda

  Music, Rain, Rivers

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• Evangelion is like a puzzle, you know. Any person can see it and give his/her own answer. In other words, we're offering viewers to think by themselves, so that each person can imagine his/her own world. We will never offer the answers, even in the theatrical version. As for many Evangelion viewers, they may expect us to provide the 'all-about Eva' manuals, but there is no such thing. Don't expect to get answers by someone. Don't expect to be catered to all the time. We all have to find our own answers.

  Hideaki Anno

  Thinking, Offering, Giving

  "About Neon Genesis Evangelion". Newtype in Protoculture Addicts #43, 11\96,

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• It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to puzzle out the ways of doing it.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Time, Taken, Half

  Gertrude Jekyll (1919). “Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden”

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• Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our players all fit together properly and complement each other, so that we don't have a big piece, a little piece, an oblong piece, and a round piece. If personalities work against each other, as a team you'll find yourselves spinning your wheels.

  Pat Summitt

  Team, Player, Jigsaw Puzzles

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.112, Crown Business

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• Sometimes I see players that think, and you can tell they're thinking of the next phrase to play or the next thing to do, the next little cute trick, and that's sad, man, you know. That's not makin' music; that's puttin' together puzzles, you know. Music should flow from you and it should be a force; it should be feeling, all feeling, man.

  Sonny Sharrock

  Cute, Music, Player

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