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• Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

  Huston Smith

  Plato, Reflection, Ordinary

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• The worth of a faith does not consist in the clarity with which it is stated but in the steadfastness with which it is defended.

  Kurt Hahn

  Doe, Steadfastness

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• If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Men, Mind

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• True, but irrelevant.

  Barbara M. White

  Irrelevant

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• A few years ago we said, 'Hail Guru Ram Das and heal the world.' It looked like a joke at that time. Heal with what? Now the Age has come when your own psyche can be in flow and beam on the other personality, and in the cross-exchange you can heal a person just by walking by his side. For this we have to have a mental clarity, and we have to have a mental projection.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Healing, Years, Personality

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• Let the mind be empty, and not filled with the things of the mind. Then there is only meditation, and not a meditor who is meditating . . . The mind must be clear, without movement, and in the light of that clarity the timeless will be revealed.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Light, Meditation

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• We feel the need to emphasize with greater clarity the obligation for members of the Church to become more independent and self reliant.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Religious, Independent, Self

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• The point of yoga is to develop a level of clarity and self-understand ing so that when we’re done doing our yoga practice we make really good decisions, because that will determine whether we’re fulfilled. Not the quality of our poses. But really the yoga is what happens when we’re done practicing yoga.

  Rod Stryker

  Yoga, Self, Practice

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• Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change

  Thomas S. Power

  Mistake, Lying, Lessons

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• The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that survived the obliteration of other memories, vagrant data that gravitated and stuck to what was left to remember. But in the end he rejected this idea. The memories were too perfect: take one detail away and they collapsed into disorder.

  Nicole Krauss

  Memories, Data, Ideas

  Nicole Krauss (2003). “Man Walks Into a Room”, p.39, Anchor

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• Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs; do not overwrite; do not overstate; avoid the use of qualifiers; do not affect a breezy style; use orthodox spelling; do not explain too much; avoid fancy words; do not take shortcuts as the cost of clarity; prefer the standard to the offbeat; make sure the reader knows who is speaking; do not use dialect; revise and rewrite.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Design, Style

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• The most spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his rapidity; he was very, very fast. And like the modern computer, which no longer bothers to retrieve the logarithm of 11 from its memory (but, instead, computes the logarithm of 11 each time it is needed), Johnny didn't bother to remember things. He computed them. You asked him a question, and if he didn't know the answer, he thought for three seconds and would produce and answer.

  Paul Halmos

  Memories, Science, Thinking

  "PAUL HALMOS Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics: Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics".

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• Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Noses, World

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• Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.

  Albert Einstein

  Principles, Raw Materials, Firsts

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.21, Broadway Books

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• Cleanliness is a state of purity, clarity, and precision

  Suze Orman

  Cleanliness, Purity, States

  Suze Orman (2007). “Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny”, p.53, Spiegel & Grau

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• Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Merit, Substitutes

  "The Elements of Style". Book by E. B. White, Ch. V: An Approach to Style, 1959.

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• Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.

  William Safire

  Color, Grace, Style

  William Safire (2011). “Quoth the Maven: More on Language from William Safire”, p.541, Random House

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• The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think young people need to receive wisdom from their elders, and value moral clarity, the university is the last place you would want to send your 18-year-old.

  Dennis Prager

  Thinking, Years, People

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• When people go to a web page, the thing that they want more than anything else is instant clarity.

  Ken McCarthy

  People, Want, Pages

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• An organization's success has more to do with clarity of shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them than to assets, expertise, operating ability or management competence, important as they may be.

  Dee Hock

  Organization, Important, Principles

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• The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. Its presence is more beautiful than the stars with more clarity than the polished mirror of your heart.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Stars, Heart

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• Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Honesty, Oneness, Effort

  "A Plea for Solidarity". The International Socialist Review, Vplume XIV, No. 9, March 1914.

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• Transformation al leaders pick the right people, match them to the right jobs, achieve mutual clarity on the desired results, and then they get out of the way and leave the individual with maximum freedom to perform.

  Brian Tracy

  Jobs, People, Leader

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• We enter the bardo, the intermediate state after #‎ death , just as we enter dream after falling asleep. If our experience of #‎ dream lacks clarity and is of confused emotional states and habitual reactivity, we will have trained ourselves to experience the processes of death in the same way.

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

  Dream, Confused, Fall

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.82, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Wherever you are in the world, there's always something about the Australian light. There's something about the sharpness of it, something about the clarity of it, something about the colours of Australia. And hopefully, something optimistic about Australian painting too.

  Ken Done

  Art, Optimistic, Australia

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