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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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• There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.

  Neel Burton

  Love Life, Talking, People

  FaceBook post by Neel Burton from Mar 07, 2014

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• Life is beautiful, but you don't have a clue.

  Lana Del Rey

  Beautiful, Life Is Beautiful, Life Is

  Song: Black Beauty, Album: Ultraviolence, 2014

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• The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, just construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay--the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start, the framework.

  Walt Whitman

  Struggle, Reading, Sleep

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• Success leaves clues, Proximity is power. Love your family, CHOOSE your peers.

  Tony Robbins

  Love You, Peers, Power Of Love

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• This is the amazing thing about you. Had I not known anything about your story, I would have absolutely not a clue that you had ever been a boy - a male. Which makes me absolutely believe you always should have been a woman.

  Piers Morgan

  Believe, Pride, Gay

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• The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.

  Walter Lippmann

  Book, People, Office

  1920 Liberty and the News,'What Modern Liberty Means'.

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• It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.

  Jeremy Denk

  Attention, Ciphers, Communicate

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• No one’s forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You’re at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you’re staring at a screen, searching for strangers in Dubai.

  Dave Eggers

  Communication, Ties, Dubai

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• Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.

  Larry Wall

  Hash, Should, Mark

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• At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a clue.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Real, Men, Bears

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• In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Writing, Trying, Narrative

  "Reliving the fall of Sparta". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 22, 2011.

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• The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Technology, Space, Achievement

  The Saturday Evening Post, 1968.

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• Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Leaving, Sometimes, Ends

  Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.58, Algonquin Books

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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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• We have concluded that the rocks here were once soaked in liquid water. It changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry. We've been able to read the tell-tale clues the water left behind, giving us confidence in that conclusion.

  Steve Squyres

  Rocks, Giving, Water

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• The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Running, Nonprofits, Problem

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• The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.

  Walker Percy

  Time, Lying, Past

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lancelot”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• The fact is, as actors, everything we do, bad or good, is a contribution. To me, it is a positive thing to give people as wide a range of human behavior with some sense of understanding of that behavior or some clue to it.

  Grace Zabriskie

  People, Giving, Understanding

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• If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him.

  Peter Kreeft

  Giving, Want, Sun

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• I firmly believe in Divine Providence. Without belief in Providence I think I should go crazy. Without God the world would be a maze without a clue.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Crazy, Believe, Thinking

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• Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.

  Lynne Truss

  Sorry, Laughing, Comedian

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• Perhaps the most majestic feature of our whole existence is that while our intelligences are powerful enough to penetrate deeply into the evolution of this quite incredible Universe, we still have not the smallest clue to our own fate.

  Fred Hoyle

  Powerful, Fate, Majestic

  Fred Hoyle (1960). “The nature of the universe”

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