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• However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal direct pain was a virtue, to conceal vicarious pain was a sin. Only by feeling it to the utmost, and by expressing it, could the rest of the world help to heal the injury which had caused it. Money, food, clothing, shelter - people could give all these and still it would not be enough; it would not absolve them from paying also, in full, the imponderable tribute of grief.

  Jan Struther

  Pain, Grief, Thinking

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

  Norman Cousins

  War, Effectiveness, Possibility

  Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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• I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Thinking

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• To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).

  Marya Mannes

  Mean, Men, Might

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

  Marya Mannes

  Passion, Long, Dying

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• I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

  Erica Jong

  Dark, Ecstasy, Poetry Is

  Erica Jong (1999). “What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power”, Perennial

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• The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

  Bette Davis

  Real, Heart, Actors

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• Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into it, they have more leisure for new thoughts, more light to direct them, and more hints to work upon.

  Jeremy Collier

  Light, Culture, Hints

  Jeremy Collier (1728). “Essays upon several moral subjects”, p.70

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• The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.

  Norman Mailer

  Sweet, Sex, Believe

  "Advertisements for Myself". Book by Norman Mailer, 1959.

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• It is management's job to direct the efforts of all components toward the aim of the system. The first step is clarification: everyone in the organization must understand the aim of the system, and how to direct his efforts toward it. Everyone must understand the damage and loss to the whole organization from a team that seeks to become a selfish, independent, profit center.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs, Selfish, Team

  "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education". Book by W. Edwards Deming, 1993.

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• The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.

  Andrew Jackson

  People, President, Responsible

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.269

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• Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

  Joseph Joubert

  Law, Action, Enlightening

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

  Betty Rollin

  Tears, May, Disease

  Betty Rollin (2008). “Last Wish”, p.122, PublicAffairs

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• television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology - I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the slow viruses.' They not only get into our ways of seeing, they pervade the ways in which we weave our perceptions together into patterns that support and explain our thinking and our doing and both direct and hinder various kinds of relationships.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Believe, Thinking, Appreciate

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• I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Simple, Giving, Effort

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• jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.

  Edna O'Brien

  Jealousy, Betrayal, Self

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• only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.

  Anne Lamott

  Grief, Grieving, Alone Time

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.63, Anchor

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• This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.

  Gore Vidal

  Giving Up, Sky, Religion

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• To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, more selective, more acute eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world. Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times-the pulse of today. The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will, but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Philosophy, Mean

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• It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions about photography that matter most to me.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Running, Trying

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• The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal to his own interests will he produce a work of distinction.

  Bill Brandt

  Photographer, Produce, Distinction

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Photographer, Tempted, Documents

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• Clapper has been straight and direct in the answers that he's given, and has actively engaged in an effort to provide more information about the programs that have been revealed through the leak of classified information.

  Jay Carney

  Nsa, Effort, Answers

  "James Clapper: Obama stands by intelligence chief as criticism mounts" by Spencer Ackerman, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2013.

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• There is no more direct or honest person than Jim Clapper.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Nsa, Honest, Persons

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. June 9, 2013.

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• Wine was given us by God, not that we might be drunken, but that we might be sober. It is the best medicine when it has the best moderation to direct it. Wine was given to restore the body's weakness, not to overturn the soul's strength.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Food, Wine, Medicine

  Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Saint John Chrysostom (1983). “A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church”

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