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• Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

  Robert McCracken

  Real, Character, Men

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• What to do when the market goes down? Read the opinions of the investment gurus who are quoted in the WSJ. And, as you read, laugh. We all know that the pundits can't predict short-term market movements. Yet there they are, desperately trying to sound intelligent when they really haven't got a clue.

  Jonathan Clements

  Intelligent, Laughing, Trying

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• Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, youll reap the same rewards.

  Brad Thor

  Sowing, Rewards, Reap

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• The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create objects out of images(symbols)... The artist, like the eye, must provide true images and the clues of distance to tell his magic lies.

  Colin Blakemore

  Distance, Lying, Eye

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• I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

  Manuel Puig

  Believe, Character, Voice

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• If God didn't want you to be a dreamer, He wouldn't go around handing out dreams! That's a clue!

  Mark Gorman

  Dream, Want, Ifs

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• Now suppose that the clue experiences that can correct the illusion become for some reason increasingly scarce – perhaps because the dominant story itself brings about their elimination! Then the illusion might go on for a very long time, might have to result in real catastrophe, before anyone realizes anything is wrong.

  Val Plumwood

  Real, Long, Stories

  Val Plumwood (2012). “The Eye of the Crocodile”, p.13, ANU E Press

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• I have not a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I have not got a reputation as a receiver of stolen goods.

  Jeremy Paxman

  America, World, Reputation

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• I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.

  Robert Adams

  Self, Giving, Ego

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• Considering retirement? When that happens, I don't want that to be the story of whatever the season it is. I don't want to have to be talking about it all the time. My plan is when the time is up, it'll be time to hang it up. When that comes, it'll come. But right now, I don't have any clue as to when that'll be. It's been that way the last couple of years. . . . I've often felt if I ever get to a point where I don't want to go recruiting and can't get excited about it, then maybe it's time. That's a pretty good indication that's probably it. And I haven't reached that point at all yet.

  LaVell Edwards

  Time, Retirement, Couple

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• Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the conventional wisdom of the present, which often conceals or ignores the clues to the future.

  Dr. An Wang

  Progress, Lines, Trends

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• When you meet someone you love, then you change for good. That’s why the other person will never know or understand the earlier you, and why you can never change back. And why, when that person starts to go, you’ll feel the tear deep in your heart long before your head has the slightest clue what’s going on.

  Michael Marshall Smith

  Heart, Long, Tears

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• As leaders, we understand that intangibles are important, but we don't have a clue how to measure them.

  Chip Conley

  Motivation, Inspiration, Leader

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• If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of concealment. And the world is not something that gives itself away. The heavens still keep their secrets. There is little gossip amongst the stars. But no one has forgotten the Big Bang yet. Since then, silence has reigned supreme, and every thing there is moving away. One can still come across a moon. Or a comet. Just don't expect friendly greetings. No visiting cards are printed in space.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Stars, Moving, Moon

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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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• Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important.

  Seth Godin

  Important

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• I'm more of a handbag girl; my guilty pleasure is bags. I don't even have a clue how many I own.

  Poppy Delevingne

  Girl, Bags, Guilty

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• I really like how the sixth book is going. A lot happens in the sixth book and a lot of questions are answered. I really have a sense that we are nearly there and it is time for answers, not more questions and clues, although obviously there are a few clues as I am not quite finished yet.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Answers, Finished

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• The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and instructive in themselves, but as the clue to all other history. They tell us what man is, and they alone tell us why he is what he is: a contradictory creature that seeing and approving of what is good, pursues and performs what is evil. All of private and public life is there displayed. ... From the same pure fountain of wisdom we learn that vice destroys freedom; that arbitrary power is founded on public immorality.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Writing, Reflection, Men

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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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• How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues.

  Claire Cameron

  Book, Writing, Technique

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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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• I do not believe in meaningless coincidences. I believe every coincidence is a message, a clue about a particular facet of our lives that requires our attention.

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, Attention, Messages

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