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• In the Lotus Sutra, Buddha says to light up one corner - not the whole world. Just make it clear where you are.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Light, Lotuses, World

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• Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, Mean, America

  Jimmy Carter (2013). “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President”, p.492, University of Arkansas Press

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• But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

  Naomi Klein

  Needs, Denial, Collectives

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• It will take an unprecedented act of courage, on a grand scale. You may have to do something virtually unknown in the annals of human history. ... You may have to give up some of your most sacred beliefs. ... let me make something clear.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Giving Up, May, Sacred

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• Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood may be the greatest threat to our forests.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Environmental, Fuel, World

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• Then the Lord said, "This is the year of crazy, substantial hope." Then I saw many sitting around the Table of the Lord whom He was about to address. There was such communion, love, and honor. Then the Lord took His place at the Table. I was overwhelmed with the presence of the Lord. He was so alive. He was so much fun. But He made it very clear that this year the Body of Christ was being evaluated in their hope.

  Bob Hartley

  Fun, Crazy, Years

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• For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Photography, Photographer, Should

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• When we are clear enough about our own point of view, we can find help in the methods of Eastern Christianity or in the ways of the Far East, perhaps by consulting the I Ching or through mandala contemplation; we may even find help in the ways of shamanism or Islam. If we are clear about where we stand and the direction we must take, such methods may be useful in order to follow our own way to the end.

  Morton T. Kelsey

  Views, Order, Islam

  Morton T. Kelsey (1997). “The Other Side of Silence: Meditation for the Twenty-First Century”, p.155, Paulist Press

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• I find Spanish really difficult. They speak so quickly, whereas in German it's very clear what they're saying. It's easier to repeat.

  Eliot Paulina Sumner

  Speak, Easier, Difficult

  "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play by making the motivations too clear, too simplex.

  John Guare

  Motivation, Play, Musical

  "John Guare: Strangers in the Dark". Interview with Tana Wojczuk, www.guernicamag.com. March 19, 2012.

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• I believe that also it should be stressed and made clear that our antagonistic position is not to say "I don't like whites" for the simple fact of not liking white people. It's like, our fight is not against the white person per se, but against the exercises of white supremacy and the form in which whiteness and the politics of whiteness operates.

  Bocafloja

  Believe, Exercise, Fighting

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• Maybe because I'm from New Jersey, I just have this kind of plain language hangup. But I would make very clear - I would not talk to Vladimir Putin. In fact, I would talk to Vladimir Putin a lot. But I'd say to him, "Listen, Mr. President, there's a no-fly zone in Syria; you fly in, it applies to you." And yes, we would shoot down the planes of Russian pilots if in fact they were stupid enough to think that this president was the same feckless weakling that the president we have in the Oval Office is right now.

  Chris Christie

  Stupid, Thinking, Plain Language

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• I've been writing and collecting songs on the ukulele for at least 10 years, so it was time to clear them out of the apartment building and make room for some new occupants.I need to make room for the bassoon record.

  Eddie Vedder

  Song, Writing, Years

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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• Korean feminism is on the brink of death. Korea has a less clear boundary between popular literature and serious literature than in other countries. I feel that feminism is abandoned like a product that was a craze in the past.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Country, Past, Korea

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It was clear to me that I was never going to be the same kind of player I had been. It was time to quit.

  Jerry West

  Player, Quitting, Kind

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• Sit down, close your eyes, and think about dogs for ten minutes. On a very clear, physiological, and neurochemical level, your body is changed by these really positive thoughts.

  Moby

  Dog, Eye, Thinking

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I try to always be in touch with my emotions so that I'm mentally clear.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Trying, Emotion

  "Kristin Cavallari: Designing a Healthy, Balanced Life". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's rather clear that we've got to do something differently â€" and going into space and learning to utilize these resources, to think differently about ourselves, is vital right now.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Thinking, Space, Resources

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world to enter. What's unique about a linked collection is that it can deliver both sets of narrative pleasures - the novel's long immersion into character-world and the story anthology's energetic (and mortal) brevity - the linked collection is unique in its ability to be both abrupt and longitudinal simultaneously.

  Junot Diaz

  Character, Unique, Long

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have internalized the new machine rhythm, the rush many of my young writers are in to publish. The majority don't want to sit on a book for four, five years. The majority don't want to listen to the silence inside and outside for their artistic imprimatur. The majority want to publish fast, publish now.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Writing, Years

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• I used to always have a pretty high, little clear voice, but as I got older, I got a little cornbread in it.

  Wilson Pickett

  Voice, Littles, Used

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• So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.

  Barack Obama

  Rate, Folks, Packages

  Remarks by the President on Preventing an Income Tax Increase on the Middle Class, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 6, 2012.

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• I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, even though I left there. I've been clear about this since I was very young, and I never wanted to change.

  Lionel Messi

  Proud, Young, Feels

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• I went to a psychotherapist for a year and a bit, and it was fantastic. I went in with a very clear question: I couldn't work out why I behaved in a certain way in certain situations, and I got that answered.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Years, Work Out, Way

  "My body & soul". Interview with Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2009.

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• I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Roles, Want

  "Bill Gates Holds News Conference on Judge's Decision to Break up Microsoft". www.cnn.com. June 7, 2000.

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