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• Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

  Sigmund Freud

  Long, Effort, Feelings

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• Never buy your kid a Puzzle that you can't solve!

  Yatin Patel

  Kids, Solve

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• We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.

  Joko Beck

  Answers, Causes, Misery

  "Everyday Zen: Love and Work" by Charlotte J. Beck, HarperCollins, (p. 12), October 6, 2009.

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• It's hard to appreciate success in modeling, because it's not something you feel like you've earned, so there is a little bit of bread of shame that comes with that. It's like somebody giving you a puzzle that's already put together.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Appreciate, Giving, Together

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• The greatest determinant of greatness is going to be our ability to collaborate with others who have pieces of the puzzle we don't.

  Jay Abraham

  Greatness, Pieces, Ability

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• Golf is a puzzle without an answer.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Answers

  "The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations". Book edited by Jim Apfelbaum, 2007.

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• To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Progress, Trying

  "Dostoevsky : His Life and Work". Book by Konstantin Mochulski, 1971.

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• Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Years, Games

  "The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations". Book edited by Jim Apfelbaum, 2007.

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• From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.

  Georges Perec

  Moving, Jigsaw Puzzles, Games

  Georges Perec (2012). “Life: A User's Manual”, p.191, Random House

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• There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Personality, Enigma, Clear

  "Kubrick, Inside a Film Artist's Maze". Book by Thomas Allen Nelson, p. 10, 2000.

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• Traveling and being in foreign cultures has always been really stimulating for me, partly because, when I'm living abroad, everything is new and like a puzzle to work out, by virtue of it being a foreign culture.

  Joshua Marston

  Work Out, Culture, Virtue

  Source: collider.com

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• Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Nature, Rain, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1870). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.296, Adam, Stevenson

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• When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Mean, Doubt, Single Women

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.7107, Delphi Classics

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• One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Color, Credit, Impossible

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• I like to be surprised by life; it's a good thing to search for the puzzle pieces.

  Josh McDermitt

  Pieces, Puzzle Piece, Good Things

  "Origin Series: Mad Men And The Walking Dead actor Josh McDermitt". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Wife, Given

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• The essence of that by which Jesus overcame the world was not suffering, but obedience. Yes, men may puzzle themselves and their hearers over the question where the power of the life of Jesus and the death of Jesus lay; but the soul of the Christian always knows that it lay in the obedience of Christ. He was determined at every sacrifice to do His Father's will. Let us remember that; and the power of Christ's sacrifice may enter into us, and some little share of the redemption of the world may come through us, as the great work came through Him.

  Phillips Brooks

  Christian, Friday, Jesus

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• One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Common Sense, Temptation

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• The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our efforts to comprehend it, is the earth.

  Lewis Thomas

  Knowledge, Science, Effort

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta have a throbbing pulse going. But as far as what it's all about, there's a million ways to go. You have to invent a new code for every song. Then you have to break it. It's like Scrabble or a crossword puzzle on steriods. I could talk about the process for days. But it's never dull and there's no one way in.

  Dan Bern

  Song, Writing, Pulse

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• I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read.

  Robertson Davies

  Love, Moving, Book

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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• Sisters have ways of socializing brothers into the mysteries of girls. Brothers have ways of socializing sisters into the puzzle that is boys.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Girl, Brother, Boys

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• Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Couple, Jigsaw Puzzles

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.

  Haruki Murakami

  Two, Together, Different

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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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