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• Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.

  William G. Tapply

  Writing, Character, Personality

  William G Tapply (2011). “The Elements of Mystery Fiction: Writing the Modern Whodunit”, p.31, Poisoned Pen Press Inc

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• Personalizatio n wasn't supposed to be a cleverly veiled way to chase prospects around the web, showing them the same spammy ad for the same lame stuff as everyone else sees. No, it is a chance to differentiate at a human scale, to use behavior as the most important clue about what people want and more important, what they need.

  Seth Godin

  People, Important, Use

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• Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

  Sara Sheridan

  Real, People, Live For Today

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• That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man or woman. But of course this fear and hate had to take on a righteous appearance, so it became moral, said that the instincts, intuitions and all the activities of the procreative body were evil, and promised a reward for their suppression. That is the great clue to bourgeois psychology: the reward business.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Country, Sex, Real

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8966, Delphi Classics

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• The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Morning, Stars, Distance

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3360, Delphi Classics

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• Now think about the Universal Law. It reflects to you exactly and precisely what you put out. If your thought-forms say, "I haven't got a clue about what I want," the Universal Law is going to say, "Listen, mate, if you haven't got a clue, neither have I.

  Stuart Wilde

  Thinking, Law, Want

  Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.149, Hay House, Inc

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• I once knew a girl who didn't know where anywhere was in the world. Not a clue. I asked her if she knew where Africa was and she answered, 'Is it the orange one on a map?'

  Matt Roper

  Girl, Orange, World

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• C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Ideas, Helping, Offers

  Interview with Jason Pontin, www.technologyreview.com. January 1, 2007.

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• God had a heartbeat for 18-25 years old...the vast majority of whom don't have a clue why they are on this planet.

  Louie Giglio

  Years, Majority, Heartbeat

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• If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Teacher, Journey, Reality

  "Eat Pray Love". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

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• You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.

  Neko Case

  Song, Giving, Knows

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. April 10, 2006.

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• You have to be able to connect to the world of archetypes. That is not so easy, and most people in the West have no clue, that that is necessary, because they have no clue of what that means. They see the image, they see Buddha here, but they don't see what the image represents. Its one thing to see with this physical eyes, it's another thing to see with this spiritual eye.

  Robert Svoboda

  Spiritual, Mean, Eye

  Source: wildyogi.info

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• You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of being. Be with it, play with it, ponder over it, delve deeply into it, till the shell of ignorance breaks open and you emerge into the realm of reality.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ignorance, Reality, Play

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• She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, "How might I serve?" If her response to that question had been pure, surely she would have coninued with the calling to be a nurse.... But that role hadn't been quite enough for her. She would have missed the excitement, the thrill when she embarked on the work of collecting clues to support a case.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Jobs, Helping Others, Nurse

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• My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.

  Carl Jung

  Taken, Order, Astrology

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, p.78, Psychology Press

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• Here is an old Oriental proverb: *A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.* It is difficult to anticipate just how a situation will develop in every detail until you take a step forward and try out your present equipment. Then, if weaknesses appear, you will have clues as to how to strengthen your resources. No scheme or plan is perfect. Perfection is a process, not an end.

  Napoleon Hill

  Journey, Perfect, Trying

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• Happy, vibrant, successful people think and behave in certain ways. So do miserable and unfulfilled people. In other words, there are patterns of success and patterns of failure. The good news is, success leaves clues.

  Tony Robbins

  Successful, Thinking, People

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• Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.

  Gloria Naylor

  Writing, Truth Is, Havens

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• I have no idea what's next, I simply don't have a clue.

  Lance Burton

  Ideas, Next, No Idea

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• Dreaming and becoming are completely separate parts of the process. However, they are both as important as each other. Never discount how powerful your dreams are. If you cannot visualise what it is you wish to become, then the brain doesn't have the first clue how to get you there.

  Chris Murray

  Dream, Powerful, Brain

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• Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Creativity, Giving, Attention

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• It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

  Helen Caldicott

  Nature, Earth, Should

  Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and Updated)”, p.235, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Found, Ruling

  1734 Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Cobham', l.174-8.

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• Success leaves clues. Go figure out what someone who was successful did, and model it. Improve it, but learn their steps. They have knowledge.

  Tony Robbins

  Successful, Steps, Figures

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• The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  People

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