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• And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.

  Chinua Achebe

  Fiction, Adequate, Helping

  Chinua Achebe (1989). “Hopes and impediments: selected essays”, Doubleday, [1989]

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• I hear from everybody, and they say Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense. Were not hired to fight.

  Joe Donnelly

  Fighting, Thinking, Working Together

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• Its very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesnt make sense!

  Walid Muallem

  Iraq, Helping, Strange

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• The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It just doesn’t make sense in a less hierarchical world... Build your skills, not your resume. Evaluate what you can do, not the title they’re going to give you. Do real work. Take a sales quota, a line role, an ops job. Don’t plan too much, and don’t expect a direct climb. If I had mapped out my career when I was sitting where you are, I would have missed my career.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

  Sheryl Sandberg's Speech on Harvard Business School Class Day in Cambridge, Massachusetts., www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2017.

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• Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.

  Andrew Solomon

  Running, Heart, People

  Andrew Solomon (2013). “A Stone Boat: A Novel”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Anything can be a musical if it makes sense for it to be a musical.

  Michael Patrick Walker

  Musical, Ifs

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I'm not going to sing something if it doesn't make sense to me, or if it makes me look like I'm begging someone or I'm weak, because that's not me.

  Sharon Jones

  Looks, Weak, Begging

  "Sharon Jones on soul music, cancer, and Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Kyle Fowle, music.avclub.com. January 15, 2014.

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• The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story the way I see it. I sometimes feel I am slogging through quicksand when I write.

  Linda Conrad

  Writing, Stories, Paper

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I'm lucky enough to have been in the age before the internet and now during the internet. I'm grateful to be a witness to that. It's horse and buggy versus car. To see how quickly things change has given me a renewed sense of optimism. Does that make sense?

  Kathleen Hanna

  Horse, Grateful, Optimism

  Interview with Allston Pudding, allstonpudding.com. April 7, 2015.

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• Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Long, Perspective, Joy

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 14, 2016

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• To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Trying, Psychedelic

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• Zombies are always moving fast in video games. It makes sense if you think about it. Those games are all about hand-eye coordination and how quickly can you get them before they get you.

  George A. Romero

  Moving, Eye, Thinking

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• I sit down and watch videos. I take notes. That's when that inspiration comes - the moment that makes sense of my profession. The instant I know, for sure, that I've got it. I know how to win. It's the moment that my job becomes truly meaningful.

  Pep Guardiola

  Meaningful, Jobs, Inspiration

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• My one challenge with the support group that I'd become involved with on campus is that the people seem to spend as much time talking about their ill-begotten pasts as their promising futures. It's as if people are drawn to looking back. They can't move on until it all makes sense. Humbly submitted: It never does.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Moving, Past, Talking

  Carol Plum-Ucci (2011). “Following Christopher Creed”, p.199, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of the myths about the Internet of Things is that companies have all the data they need, but their real challenge is making sense of it. In reality, the cost of collecting some kinds of data remains too high, the quality of the data isn't always good enough, and it remains difficult to integrate multiple data sources.

  Chris Murphy

  Real, Data, Challenges

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• The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.

  Zack Snyder

  Book, Hero, Views

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• I write to make sense of things that dont make sense to me.

  Daphne Gottlieb

  Writing

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• You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.

  Shelby Lynne

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  "Shelby Lynne: On Vulnerability and Not Flinching". Interview with Deborah Stambler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

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• It's interesting because I don't ever want to ask a better question than I can answer, if that makes sense. I find that frustrating as a viewer. Compelling questions, while not easy, are easier than compelling answers.

  Shane Carruth

  Interesting, Answers, Want

  "Shane Carruth Explains Why ‘Upstream Color’ Isn’t So Difficult to Understand and Talks About His Next Project". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. April 3, 2013.

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• I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features. A crowd of people, birds, insects, or leaves is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototype. A riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition or inability to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm.

  Magdalena Abakanowicz

  Hands, Law, People

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• Puffy's the only guy who's jealous. All drummers want to be singers. I think it's a myth that the singer needs to be the focus. Bands perpetuate that myth. With somebody like Sebastian Bach it makes sense. Look at him. He could be in an Avon ad.

  Mike Patton

  Jealous, Thinking, Focus

  Guitar Magazine, September 1992.

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• The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.

  Diane Ackerman

  Meaningful, Reality, Tears

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.14, Vintage

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• Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.

  Nancy Lublin

  Effort, Target Market, Looks

  "Q&A: Gen Y's Youngest Demand Authenticity, Via Text". Interview with Sarah Mahoney, www.mediapost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Theology is indispensable for religious communities to make sense of themselves and their changing views about the world in light of what is perceived to be revelation, but, at the same time, that theology can have a pretentiousness, or double pretentiousness, if it is acontextual as opposed to contextual, if it is foundationalist as opposed to antifoundationalist, or ahistorical as opposed to historicist.

  Cornel West

  Religious, Light, Views

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Identity, Fiction, World

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 21, 2013.

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