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• A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone... but it is an incomplete art which privileges the intellect to the detriment of the senses.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Real, Sculpture

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• God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Dream, Opportunity, Giving

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• It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint.

  Alfred Wegener

  Opposites, Facts, Viewpoints

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• Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

  Anthony Shadid

  Art, Pieces, Journalism

  "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.

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• The Pentagon tested an anti-missile system in New Mexico Wednesday. The test was an incomplete success. While the interceptor was shooting down the incoming missile, three thousand illegal aliens walked right across the border under its nose.

  Argus Hamilton

  Borders, Three, Mexico

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• Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Justice, Social Justice, Social

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• I like newspaper stories that are incomplete, that give me room to imagine the rest. It's no good to me reading about something that's all neatly solved and wrapped up. That's why so many of my stories revolve around human psychology, around why someone commits a certain crime, or series of crimes. I don't profess to know the answers but I like to explore the possibilities.

  Peter Robinson

  Reading, Giving, Psychology

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• Each and every incomplete thing in your life or work exerts a draining force on you, sucking the energy of accomplishment and success out of you as surely as a vampire stealing your blood. Every incomplete promise, commitment and agreement saps your strength, because it blocks your momentum, inhibits your ability to move forward, to progress and improve. Incomplete things keep calling you back to the past to take care of them.

  Jeff Olson

  Block, Moving, Commitment

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• My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion.

  M.I.A.

  Progress, Debate, Discussion

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 17, 2013.

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• We can speak of politics, ethics, and in this way, speak about the world. But at the same time, it's always in a way that is totally nebulous and abstracted, this way of thinking about reality. And that's why I write the way I do - it's an almost immortal way to show dependence on the biological, the political, the moral parts of us. I say immortal because we now have to find new formats, new eloquences, and resolve within ourselves this "constructed" life, a life that is incomplete, imperfect.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Writing, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't have a problem with the media focusing on bad things happening. That's our job, after all. But I think it's incomplete, and I would even say it's inaccurate, to only portray a place through its tragedies.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Jobs, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The hardest part about being ghosted is the fact that you can't deal with the ghoster directly. You just never hear from them again, and everything feels odd and incomplete.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Facts, Odd, Hardest

  "For Name's Sake" by Mallory Ortberg, www.slate.com. January 20, 2016.

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• Schopenhauer's thought that Will is insatiable, that once satisfied in one form it must be expressed in new desires, is inherited both by Mann and by Aschenbach (it's in Mahler, as well). So life is inevitably incomplete.

  Philip Kitcher

  Desire, Mahler, Life Is

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.

  Philip Kitcher

  Goal, Inquiry, Use

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The top quark was discovered in 1995 and since then the Higgs has become an because the standard model was incomplete with out it.

  Fabiola Gianotti

  Standards, Quarks, Models

  Source: content.time.com

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• There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in trouble and then the novel stops.

  Chinua Achebe

  Looks, Stories, Trouble

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• I want to set the record straight for everybody who's been waiting to hear my music. The song that's out on the internet is an incomplete song that I'm still working on. When it's ready, you'll be hearing it from me.

  Dr. Dre

  Song, Waiting, Records

  "Dr. Dre Says Leaked 'Under Pressure' Was 'An Incomplete Song'" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. June 17, 2010.

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• How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.

  Christopher Fry

  Nature, Conclusion, Knows

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays Two”, p.61, Oberon Books

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• There are complete men and incomplete men. If you would be a complete man, put all of your soul's strength into all of your life's actions.

  Eugenio Maria de Hostos

  Character, Men, Soul

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• To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.

  Elihu Root

  War, Civilization, Causes

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and sketches weigh you down, because they have something unfinished, incomplete, about them. So it's better to present the usable material in an orderly fashion and throw the other stuff away. That's how the Atlas came to be, and I exhibited it a few times.

  Gerhard Richter

  Fashion, Art, Motivation

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Oct 29, 2013

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• But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Thinking, Democracy, Progress

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• My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention.

  Joyce Banda

  Husband, Legacy, Stories

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• The story I tell is so incomplete, five kids in the house and no food to eat.

  Too $hort

  Kids, Reality, House

  Song: The Ghetto

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• Jesus' power is the power of human wholeness that ultimately opens, invites and enables human beings to step beyond defense lines where incomplete humanity always hides in order to experience full humanity.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Order, Humanity

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