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• If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.

  Karen Armstrong

  Views, Historical, Important

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• How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?

  Robert Jensen

  Country, Views, Political

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• My philosophy is that once you get people compelled enough to sit down and play the game, the whole way you make the game successful is by giving them enough unique ways to do things. First, let them deal with pulling levers and things like that for a while. Then after they've mastered that, you give them something else to do, like getting through doorways by blasting them down with a cannon Next, you give them a monster-finding quest, followed by logic problems to figure out. You pace it that way. Assorted activities and the diversity of activities are what makes a game rich in my mind.

  Richard Garriott

  Philosophy, Successful, Unique

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• Behind the debris of these self-styled, sullen supermen and imperial diplomatists, there stands the gigantic figure of one person, because of whom, by whom, in whom, and through whom alone mankind might still have hope. The person of Jesus Christ.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Jesus, Self, Might

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• I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply elsewhere, wishing we were reading, thinking, making love, fishing, sleeping, or simply having time to figure out who the hell we are and what the hell we're doing.

  Derrick Jensen

  Reading, Sleep, Thinking

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.109, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Attachment, Suffering, Desire

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• I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

  Gwen John

  Mirrors, Drawing, Painting

  Letter to François-Auguste-René Rodin, c. 1905.

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• Near the end of his life, my father proved to be, at his core, a very polite, chivalrous man. He walked the halls of the facility where he lived, introducing himself and shaking people's hands as he had done at Rotary meetings. He complimented the nurses, ‘You have a lovely figure.’ He could also eat an entire 2 lb. box of See's Candies in an afternoon, which requires considerable effort with stage five Parkinson's disease.

  Jennifer L. Knox

  Father, Men, Hands

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• The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosis spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure.

  Geoff Davis

  Numbers, Mind, Use

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• I like when you look at me like you can’t figure me out. You’re considering getting to know me, but you’re not sure I’m worth your time.

  Kate Angell

  Looks, Like You, Worth Your Time

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• Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mind, Bigs

  Shunryū Suzuki, Trudy Dixon, Richard Baker (2006). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.109, Shambhala Publications

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• Once you define exactly what your purpose is you won’t even have to try to figure out how to make money. The ideas will flow freely as if someone was whispering in your ear. Everything will come together beautifully.

  Bob Proctor

  Money, Ideas, Trying

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• In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid opinion about it.

  Norm MacDonald

  Teacher, Stupid, Math

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• I'm so drawn to the frontier mentality and that idea of having to figure everything out from scratch.

  Andrea Zittel

  Ideas, Scratches, Frontiers

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• I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.

  Ellen Gallagher

  Believe, Cutting, Bird

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• I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.

  Kiki Smith

  Trying, Mystery, Printmaking

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• A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She’s a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Girl, Sleep, Men

  Helen Gurley Brown (2012). “Sex and the Single Girl: The Unmarried Woman's Guide to Men”, p.123, Open Road Media

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• When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last 50 years.

  Heinz-Otto Peitgen

  Impact, Years, Important

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• Whatever it is that you're passionate about, whatever it is that you absolutely love, and whatever it is that you would get up out of bed every day and do for free, you should try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a shot.

  Dana White

  Mma, Giving, Trying

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• The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.

  Steven Zaillian

  Directors, Done, Want

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

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• Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

  Steven Pinker

  Humanity, Overcoming, Calling

  "Time Magazine's 'Evolution Wars' Features Albert Mohler". www.christianpost.com. August 10, 2005.

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• Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Jobs, Real

  "Oprah: ‘Everybody Has A Calling’". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2013.

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• Because You have called me here not to wear a label by which I can recognize myself and place myself in some kind of a category. You do not want me to be thinking about what I am, but about what You are. Or rather, You do not even want me to be thinking about anything much: for You would raise me above the level of thought. And if I am always trying to figure out what I am and where I am and why I am, how will that work be done?

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Thinking, Always Trying

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The seven storey mountain”, Harcourt

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• Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth is thus more inclusive. But both symbol and myth have the same function psychologically; they are man's way of expressing the quintessence of his experience - his way of seeing his life, his self-image and his relations to the world of his fellow men and of nature - in a total figure which at the same moment carries the vital meaning of this experience.

  Rollo May

  Character, Men, Self

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• Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Want, Existential, Accepting

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