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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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• Most people are passive aggressive in this world. I have the idea that the human being is born with a kind of reservoir of aggression. We are inherently somewhat aggressive creatures and we either channel that in direct ways or we channel it in indirect ways and become passive aggressive.

  Robert Greene

  Ideas, People, World

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I would definitely like to direct at some point. I've been very fortunate to work with some amazing talent and study them. But when the right time and the right story arrives, and I feel like I'm compelled to tell it, then I'll do that.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Stories, Study, Talent

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think it takes a lot of courage to be able to direct a film. If you have that courage and that vision together, and you pick the cast that you believe will achieve your vision, you win.

  Nate Parker

  Believe, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perseverance, Light, Way

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 1: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.161

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• He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.

  Washington Irving

  Thinking, Ideas, Silence

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• Does anyone believe for one moment that the progress we have made would have been possible under bureaucratic control of any government. This country was founded upon the principle of the regulation of private effort, of making rules for the game, and under that system alone can we look for the same success in the future which has been ours in the past. Our position today is the direct result of the free play among our people of private competitive effort.

  Roger Babson

  Country, Believe, Past

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• It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.

  Albert Camus

  Would Be, Unions, Unjust

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.274, Vintage

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• That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Squares, Views, Roots

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• Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. So don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what I mean.

  Northrop Frye

  Children, Mean, Thinking

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• Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Reality, Light, Engagement

  Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books

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• The almost Oriental politeness of the West Coast is one of its distinctive regional features, in marked contrast to the contentiousness of the East Coast.... So few human contacts in Los Angeles go unmediated by glass (either a TV screen or an automobile windshield), that the direct confrontation renders the participants docile, stunned, sweet.

  Edmund White

  Sweet, Glasses, West

  Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.1, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Proponents of so-called pluralism feel compelled to ban religious considerations from public discourse because they know, instinctively if not intellectually, that their faith is in direct conflict with the God of the Bible, and that in the end the two positions are irreconcilable.

  Benjamin Hart

  Christian, Religious, Two

  Benjamin Hart (1988). “Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty”

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• Christian bashing is alive and well on college and university campuses also. In fact, it's ever more direct and overt because Christianity is not 'politically correct.' Never has been. Never will be.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, College

  D. James Kennedy (1997). “The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail: The Attack on Christianity and What You Need to Know to Combat It”, Nelson Reference & Electronic Publishing

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• Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for a regime that has been as hostile as Iran has been towards America for more than three decades. President Rouhani needs to take these two simple steps to demonstrate good faith before any further discussions.

  Ted Cruz

  Leadership, Strong, Spring

  "Cruz praises Obama on Iran" by Burgess Everett, www.politico.com. September 28, 2013.

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• Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Self, Hatred, Degrees

  "Intelligent Design" by Daniel Zalewski, www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2005.

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• At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything

  Rachel Weisz

  Flirting, People, The End Of The Day

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• The conditions that direct the order of . . . the living world . . . are marked by their persistence in improving the birthright of successive generations.

  Francis Galton

  Persistence, Order, World

  Inquiries Into Human Faculty and Its Development 'The Observed Order of Events'

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• The time-use studies also show that employed women spend as much time as nonworking women in direct interactions with their children. Employed mothers spend as much time as those at home reading to and playing with their young children, although they do not, of course, spend as much time simply in the same room or house with the children.

  Sandra Scarr

  Mother, Children, Reading

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• The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to be sent out intothe world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct.... girls are to dwell in quiet homes, amongst a few friends; to exercise a noiseless influence, to be submissive and retiring. There is no connection between the bustling mill-wheel life of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing.... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly.

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell

  Girl, Children, School

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• I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.

  William H. Macy

  Directors, Scripts, Hats

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I don't think I'd ever want to direct. I don't think I have as much discipline to direct as I would like to have, and I don't want my hair color to not go grey during that process.

  Liana Liberato

  Thinking, Hair, Color

  Source: collider.com

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• If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.

  Matthew Lillard

  Television, Film, Theater

  "Matthew Lillard Talks FAT KID RULES THE WORLD, Becoming a Director, the Film’s Road to Development and Plans for Future Directorial Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 10, 2012.

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