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  Criticism is something we can avoid easily
  by saying nothing, doing nothing,
  and being nothing.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Relationship, Failure

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• It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.

  Rick Warren

  Destiny, Identity, Purpose

  Rick Warren (2007). “The Purpose Driven Life Dvd Study Guide: A Six-session Video-based Study for Groups Or Individuals”, p.93, Harper Collins

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• There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It's usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I never really settle for one.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Demand, Settling, Natural

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm.

  Martin Laird

  Taken, Humanity, Bruises

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• In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Path, Resources, Turns

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2011.

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• Those who deny the change in consciousness that the divine process of creation now brings about-or actually imposes on us-and fail to develop their intuition accordingly will sooner or later find themselves at a dead end.

  Carl Johan Calleman

  Intuition, Consciousness, Failing

  Carl Johan Calleman (2004). “The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.

  Frank Wilczek

  Mistake, Profound, Progress

  Frank Wilczek (2009). “The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• If you attack a mathematical problem directly, very often you come to a dead end, nothing you do seems to work and you feel that if only you could peer round the corner there might be an easy solution. There is nothing like having somebody else beside you, because he can usually peer round the corner.

  Michael Atiyah

  Peers, Might, Problem

  Michael Atiyah (1988). “Collected Works: Michael Atiyah Collected Works: Volume 1: Early Papers; General Papers”, p.214, Oxford University Press

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• Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Extinction, Way, Blind

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• Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration.

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Car, Trying

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.57, Ballantine Books

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• Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end.

  Jonathan Chait

  Ideas, Trump, Coalitions

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I live at the end of a dead end one way street. I don't know how I got there.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Way

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• With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary key to our being or non-being resides in each individual human heart, in the heart’s preference for specific good or evil. Yet this remains true even today, and it is, in fact, the most reliable key we have. The social theories that promised so much have demonstrated their bankruptcy, leaving us at a dead end.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Heart, Keys, Mountain Ranges

  "Have We Forgotten God?" by John W. Whitehead, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Data, Scientific Method, Way

  "How Beer, Oprah and Sergey Brin can help cure aging". Interview with Steven Leckart, www.wired.com. October 19, 2010.

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• In order to have creativity, you have to allow for dead ends to happen.

  Christoph Niemann

  Creativity, Order, Happens

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• We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.

  Julia Cameron

  Time, Writing, Perfect

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.23, Penguin

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• There's no such thing as a lost cause, or a dead end. Through persistence, attitude, and creativity, there's always an escape route.

  Urijah Faber

  Attitude, Creativity, Persistence

  FaceBook post by Urijah Faber from Oct 08, 2013

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• Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

  Zig Ziglar

  Failure, Mean, Detours

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• I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty - the mistakes and dead ends - that artists develop, not through the quick solutions and not from something you learn and apply.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Mistake, Artist, Want

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• Love is blind and little did I know, you were just another dead end road. Paved with pretty lies and broken dreams.

  Julie Roberts

  Love, Dream, Lying

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• Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead-end street.

  Dave Grohl

  Two, Years, Signatures

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the standards of evidence must be if we are really to know something is true, how many false starts and dead ends have plagued human thinking, how our biases can colour our interpretation of evidence, and how often belief systems widely held and supported by the political, religious and academic hierarchies turn out to be not just slightly in error, but grotesquely wrong.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, College, Thinking

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.98, Ballantine Books

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• My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest.

  Sebastian Junger

  Wife, House, Tree

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• I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.

  David Hyde Pierce

  School, Focus, Parent

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