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• [Some of the people I'd met] were wonderful people as human beings, and some people were more difficult. I could not see a correlation between their particular genius in playing chess and music and mathematics, etc. ... with human qualities. Some were really good, wonderful people, and some were difficult characters, but there was no clear correlation. But when I met some spiritual masters, [I thought that] there had to be a correlation, and it turned out to be true.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Spiritual, Character, People

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• I think if your direction in life is clear and if you develop the wish to accomplish/have a fulfilled life and to contribute something to others, I think that definitely gives you such a strength to want to be alive, that that would be the best placebo.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Thinking, Giving, Wish

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the [Barack] Obama administration are not believable.

  Nat Hentoff

  Becoming, Unemployment, Statistics

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• You have to develop a certain healthy distance to allow you to keep a clear head, to be able to analyse the situation, lead your team, and move forward with them, because there are times if I'm not careful... if you get too involved, it will consume you; it will consume you, and you will not be good to your team; the issues you are dealing with.

  Kofi Annan

  Distance, Team, Moving Forward

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• Malcolm X made it very clear that if somebody goes after you - whether it's cops or not - you have to defend yourself. But he was not an advocate for violence the way the Black Panthers were.

  Nat Hentoff

  Black, Violence, Panthers

  Source: www.rutherford.org

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• If it's controversy out there, or if it's some false stories out there, I want to clear it up. That's just what I'm all about.

  Kevin Durant

  Stories, Want, Controversy

  "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.

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• There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending.

  Jesse Jackson

  Toxic, Patterns, Discrimination

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• It is more or less clear that one idea which should emerge from the crash, whatever happens with the attempts to save the banks from bankruptcy and people from being evicted from their homes, is that this kind of life is unsustainable. We cannot go on like this... something must be done.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Home, Ideas, People

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• I'd like to be clear that a number of people find me intolerable, and they don't hesitate to say so - which they and I cherish.

  Ray Dalio

  Numbers, People, Cherish

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Donald Trump has addressed many times that his main concern is making sure that we have a system in place that we completely lack now, which is, those countries that tend to train and export and harbor terrorists where we do not have proper vetting are places where we're going to need to have better vetting. And he's made that very clear.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Country, Needs, Made

  Source: www.npr.org

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• One can neither agree nor disagree with a terminological proposal, as long as it is clear that it is just that: terminological.

  Noam Chomsky

  Long, Proposal, Agree

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Those who actually do have a valid claim to such special competence have a particular obligation to make very clear to the general public the limits of what is understood at any serious level; these limits are typically very narrow in matters of significance in human affairs.

  Noam Chomsky

  Special, Levels, Matter

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed to mean. Are we different from ants?

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Ideas, Different

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• I've been interested in the reports on Rojava. It seems clear that there are positive developments.

  Noam Chomsky

  Development, Seems, Reports

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• I do think that it's really important for leaders of countries to be very clear and careful in the statements they make because their words are weighed extremely carefully by other countries, and you have to create a continuity of seriousness and of credibility in order to be able to be taken seriously and get things done.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• It is now abundantly clear that the Clintons set up a business to profit from public office. They sold access and specific actions by and really for I guess the making of large amounts of money.

  Donald Trump

  Office, Action, Clinton

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• One of the issues the Democrats have to be clear on is the given population distribution across the country. We have to compete everywhere. We have to show up everywhere. We have to work at a grassroots level, something that's been a running thread in my career.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Country, Careers

  Source: time.com

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• It's critical to level the playing field, to make prices and risks clear up front, so when someone signs on for a student loan or a mortgage or a credit card, they know the tricks and traps hidden in the fine print. That's why the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been working on a new financial aid shopping sheet. A shorter, two-page credit card agreement, a simpler mortgage disclosure form. All those are aimed toward helping people understand the basic bargain.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Agreement, Shopping, Two

  Source: www.bethkobliner.com

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• I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm very clear. I voted for the change that put the Army Field Manual in place as a member of Congress. I understand that law very, very quickly and am also deeply aware that any changes to that will come through Congress and the president.

  James Mattis

  Army, Law, Congress And The President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We were very clear that this film's [Young Adam] so much about a relationship that's borne out through the sexual contact, and that that's the way they communicate.

  Tilda Swinton

  Way, Film, Adam

  Source: www.nerve.com

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• Donald Trump has made it clear that certainly over the last few years that President [Barack] Obama was born in Hawaii.

  John Lewis

  Years, President, Hawaii

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [ Bernie Sanders' popularity] is exactly the same as Donald Trump's.It is a bunch of people who are disaffected with what the establishment has done, and they are striking out. Do they have any clear idea of what they want as an alternative? No. The candidates that they have surrounded themselves with either have no idea or are promising things that are so impractical they will never get done.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Ideas, People, Alternatives

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Trying, Shapes, Consideration

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whenever you have a few setbacks, the idea that half as many children are dying now as back in 1990 and so... it was over 12 million a year, now it's less than 6 million a year. We have a clear path to get that under 3 million a year and we know what to do. And this generation of young Africans is a very large group.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• People at civil-liberties organizations say it's a sea change, and that it's very clear judges have begun to question more critically assertions made by the executive. Even though it seems so obvious now, it is extraordinary in the context of the last decade, because courts had simply said they were not the best branch to adjudicate these claims - which is completely wrong, because they are the only nonpolitical branch. They are the branch that is specifically charged with deciding issues that cannot be impartially decided by politicians.

  Edward Snowden

  Sea, Organization, Issues

  Source: www.thenation.com

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