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• Do we really have the right to take care of ourselves? Do we really have the right to set boundaries? Do we really have the right to be direct and say what we need to say? You bet we do.

  Melody Beattie

  Needs, Care, Boundaries

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• In one of the accounts of Jesus's death we read that the curtain in the temple of God-the one that kept people out of the holiest place of God's presence-ripped.One New Testament writer said that this ripping was a picture of how, because of Jesus, we can have new, direct access to God.A beautiful idea.But the curtain ripping also means that God comes out, that God is no longer confined to the temple as God was previously.

  Rob Bell

  Beautiful, Jesus, Mean

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• I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Song, Monday, Writing

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• I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also put food on the table.

  Robby Benson

  Needs, Tables, Artistic

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• Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intellectual, Society, Credit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.256, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I always encourage people to pay themselves first, so I really advocate setting up direct deposit for your paycheck and establishing an automatic transfer so that part of each paycheck goes straight into your savings account.

  Alexa Von Tobel

  People, Saving, Pay

  "The Great Debate: To Automate or Not" by Alexa von Tobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.

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• When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change. Personal involvement with innocent suffering, with the injustice others suffer, is the catalyst for solidarity which then gives rise to intellectual inquiry and moral reflection.

  Peter Hans Kolvenbach

  Heart, Reflection, Giving

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• The direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive.

  Bernard Lietaer

  Fighting, Order, Consequence

  "Beyond Greed and Scarcity". Interview with Sarah van Gelder (Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures), www.lietaer.com. Spring 1997.

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• I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still in love with writing and directing.

  Shane Carruth

  Writing, Helping Others, Thinking

  "DVD Re-run Interview: Shane Carruth on “Primer”; The Lessons of a First-Timer". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. April 18, 2005.

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• A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.

  Charles Darwin

  Law, Direct Action, Growth

  Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.486, Harvard University Press

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• There is no better way to return the matter of taxation to full public discusssion than to repeal the withholding taxes on wages and salaries. Only when the American people are confronted with the enormous excesses of government in a personal and direct way - by an annual bill for services rendered - will they be able to make an informed judgment about which services they want and which ones they can do without.

  Karl Hess

  Government, People, Modern Life

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• That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation.

  Elias Hicks

  Home, Light, Desire

  Elias Hicks (1828). “The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...”, p.217

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• At first, the only thing that I learned was to save. Then I learned about mutual fund, then later on direct stock investments. I also went into small businesses and even real estate.

  Bo Sanchez

  Real, Firsts, Mutual Fund

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• The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.

  Franz Halder

  Order, Wings, Track

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• Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood,  plaster or clay.

  Eva Zeisel

  Hands, Clay, Woods

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• If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Flower, Airplane, Men

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• The arrogance of the young is a direct result of not having known enough consequences. The turkey that every day greedily approaches the farmer who tosses him grain is not wrong. It is just that no one ever told him about Thanksgiving.

  Harry Golden

  Turkeys, Arrogance, Toss

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• As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief business, the occupation and aim of life. For me it is a relaxation, a pastime which distracts me from my principal business, my professorship. I love my profession and my science. I love the Academy and my pupils, male and female, because to direct the work of young people, one must be close to them.

  Alexander Borodin

  People, Relaxation, Musical

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• There is a direct line that runs from our doctrine to our actions, from what is in our minds to what is in our words and ways... The heart spills over into life. Thoughts of God, and of all else, erupt into acts. The filling of the heart with wise thoughts of God becomes the most important, the most practical, business in the world.

  Tom Wells

  Wise, Running, Heart

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• Of all the entrepreneurial opportunities available today, one of the most important is direct selling, also called network marketing.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Opportunity, Mlm, Direct Selling

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• Direct selling provides an opportunity open to absolutely everyone, regardless of background, specialized skills or capital worth.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Opportunity, Direct Selling, Skills

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• The best system I've ever seen for intellectual distribution is the direct selling business-also known as one-to-one marketing, network marketing, referral marketing or relationship marketing.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Direct Selling, Intellectual, Marketing

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• The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on them, and to circumscribe them in direct proportion to how stringently the population is controlled.

  Mark Slouka

  Humanity, Population, Proportion

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• Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Lying, Atmosphere, Foundation

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.8, Lulu Press, Inc

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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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