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• In the armed forces, the chances of success are quite high. That's due to the clarity of the military structure - everything is sketched out. In politics, there are many more surprises and detours, and it's a lot more unpredictable.

  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

  Military, Chance, Clarity

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• I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.' Tengo shook his head. 'I don't think so. This way is just fine. This is exactly the right time. For both of us. [...] We needed that much time.... to understand how lonely we really were.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Hurt, Thinking

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• Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Grief, Sides, Sometimes

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2014). “Oleander Girl: A Novel”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

  Carl Jung

  Fate, Destiny, Way

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.184, Princeton University Press

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• From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of a writer's thought.

  Mina P. Shaughnessy

  Writing, Past, Views

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• I thought following a straight road would lead me right to my destination. Like the road would just take me there because I was following all the rules. And if the road curved, I couldn't be sure about where I was going. But look where it got me. Maybe it's time for a detour.

  Susane Colasanti

  Change, Looks, Destination

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.138, Penguin

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• And from the moment that I saw you, I knew you was trouble,
  But I disregarded detour signs,
  And did not stop til you was mine.
  I guess God was like, 'Aight, fine.'
  Careful what you wish for, cause you just might get it in heaps.
  Try to give it back, He be like, 'Nah, that's yours to keep.'

  Mos Def

  Rap, Giving, Hip Hop

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• Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

  Lynne Truss

  Punctuation Marks, Language, Slow Down

  "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, November 6, 2003.

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• Life isn't always easy and we are never guaranteed that things will always go smoothly…It progresses with an almost constant series of challenges, but these obstacles are just detours that we have to take in order to meet our ultimate goals. No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.

  Brooke Ellison

  Believe, Adversity, Order

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• If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of the truth ... In such manner did I dream of the truth.

  Johannes Kepler

  Dream, Wall, Ignorance

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• Secure web servers are the equivalent of heavy armoured cars. The problem is, they are being used to transfer rolls of coins and cheques written in crayon by people on park benches to merchants doing business in cardboard boxes from beneath highway bridges. Further, the roads are subject to random detours, anyone with a screwdriver can control the traffic lights, and there are no police.

  Gene Spafford

  Light, Bridges, People

  Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford (1997). “Web Security & Commerce”, O'Reilly Media

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• The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.

  Samuel Johnson

  States, Enjoy, Happy Woman

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• Live every day to fulfill your personal mission. God has a reason for whatever season you are living through right now. A season of loss or blessing? A season of activity or hibernation? A season of growth or incubation? You may think you're on a detour, but God knows the best way for you to reach your destination.

  Barbara Johnson

  Loss, Blessing, Thinking

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.54, Zondervan

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• Do we have a guide to help us choose the right and avoid dangerous detours? I have tried to pattern my life after the Master. Whenever I have a difficult decision to make, I have looked at that picture and asked myself, "What would He do?" Then I try to do it. We can never go wrong when we choose to follow the Savior.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Agency, Decision, Trying

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• I don't see love as some perfect happily ever after thing like it is in books and movies. It's more like a bumpy road filled with potholes...and detours. Sometimes we even veer off into the ditch. But the places that road will take you, the things you'll experience, are worth all of the uncertainty.

  Melissa Brown

  Book, Perfect, Bumpy Roads

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• The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a rhetoric of walking. The art of "turning" phrases finds an equivalent in an art of composing a path.

  Michel de Certeau

  Art, Journey, Hiking

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.100, Univ of California Press

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• If success were easy, then it would not necessarily be true success. Some of history's most successful people learned to cope with failure as a natural offshoot of the experimental and creative process and often learned more from their failures than their successes. By taking the attitude that failure is merely a detour on the way to our destination, hope can blossom into success.

  John Templeton

  Attitude, Failure, Successful

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• Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Oneness, Path

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Journey, Interruptions, My Journey

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• There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it.

  Leighton Ford

  Jesus, Holiness, Resurrection

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• I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base. In those cases, they often wind up with filmed books on tape, quite uncinematic. Having said that, I'd say all the adaptations I've done are quite faithful to the original... You have to pick and choose which storylines and plot threads, because you don't have the time to kill in the film as they have in novels. All those pages with detours and plots and different storylines. But films add a lot, and you gotta keep it moving.

  Alexander Payne

  Moving, Book, Wind

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 15, 2011.

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• The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into the future are you willing to protect Homo sapiens on Earth? Before you answer that question, take a detour to Arizona's Meteor Crater during your next vacation.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Vacation, Two, Numbers

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• Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Distance, Science, Return

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• Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive.

  Wayne Dyer

  Doe, Purpose, May

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• It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour.

  Theodor Reik

  Goal, Approach

  Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.267, Transaction Publishers

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