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• In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Book, Effort

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.10, Lexington Books

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• No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.

  Walter Lang

  Mistake, Perfect, Spirit

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• As the nature deficit grows, another emerging body of scientific evidence indicates that direct exposure to nature is essential for physical and emotional health. For example, new studies suggest that exposure to nature may reduce the symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and that it can improve all children's cognitive abilities and resistance to negative stresses and depression.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Stress, Emotional

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• The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Attention, Applause, Masters

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• The greatest cost of the specialization of technological life - and out of which all other damages are birthed - is arguably our separation from the practical and enriching sense of ourselves as embodied beings. When we are alienated from the wisdom of the body, our lives become theoretical and abstract, and we are distanced from the direct, felt sense of living.

  Richard Strozzi-Heckler

  Life, Damage, Cost

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• Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this day. Direct my thoughts and bless them Direct my work and bless it. Direct the things I say and give them blessing, too. Direct and bless everything that I think and speak and do. So that for this one day, just this one day, I have the gift of grace that comes from your presence. . . .

  Marjorie Holmes

  Life, Blessing, Thinking

  Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied that we have only to look, listen, and trust the love and wisdom of the Universal Spirit working through us all.

  Dan Millman

  Faith, Spiritual, Words Of Wisdom

  Dan Millman (2001). “The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work”, p.49, H J Kramer

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• I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Happiness, Laughter, Believe

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• Of course, the strippers also take pains not to appear too innocent, valorous, or bookishly inclined. (In direct opposition to the Swayze Mandate of 1987, everybody puts Baby in a goddamn corner.)

  Diablo Cody

  Baby, Pain, Innocent

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• Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing. The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad.

  T. H. White

  Mean, Cutting, People

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.218, Penguin

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• Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

  David Eagleman

  Action, Acquaintance, Internals

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• There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play. Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

  Bryan Singer

  Play, Challenges, Special

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.

  Renny Harlin

  Real, Motor Oil, Experts

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• At the piano, I'm able to communicate in a way that is very intimate and direct. My approach at music is a bit like talking to a friend. You don't have to be very complicated when you speak. If you say what's in your heart, it's usually very simple.

  David Lanz

  Heart, Simple, Talking

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• I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money.

  Joseph E. Brown

  Men, People, Doe

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• Golf is a terrible, hopeless addiction, it seems: it makes its devotees willing to trudge miles in any manner of weather, lugging a huge, incommodious and appallingly heavy bag with them, in pursuit of a tiny and fantastically expensive ball, in a fanatical attempt to direct it into a hole the size of a beer glass half a mile away. If anything could be better calculated to convince one of the essential lunacy of the human race, I haven't found it.

  Mike Seabrook

  Beer, Golf, Glasses

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• Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

  Ogden Nash

  New Year, Years, Long

  Ogden Nash (1954). “Many long years ago”

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• The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it.

  Bob Allen

  Funny, Golf, Effort

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• When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.

  Josef Albers

  Jobs, Teaching, Years

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• I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

  Barry Levinson

  Hands, House, Television

  Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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• I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.

  Mark Harmon

  Opportunity, Thankfulness, Mess

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• When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.

  Bill Condon

  Gay, Thinking, Years

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• This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Years, Cost, Lines

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• Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

  T. S. Eliot

  Eye, Men, Color

  "The Hollow Men" l. 13 (1925)

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• And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's wit Can well direct him where to look for it. And freely men confess that this world's spent, When in the planets, and the firmament They seek so many new; then see that this Is crumbled out again to his atomies. 'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone; All just supply, and all relation: Prince, subject, Father, Son, are things forgot.

  John Donne

  Father, Philosophy, Son

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D. Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.491

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