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• Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

  Bear Grylls

  Travel, Adventure, Thinking

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• At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

  James Fenton

  Lines, Poetic, Relaxed

  "Down in the deep dark dell" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2002.

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• I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

  Jo Brand

  Three, Gigs, Nervous

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• Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you're done before you know it.

  Bill Watterson

  Secret, Looks, Done

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• So let us persevere. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Moving

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your trust in the Son of God and to weaken your resolve to keep your promises to Him. These trials are often camouflaged, making them difficult to identify. They take root in our weaknesses, our vulnerabilities, our sensitivities, or in those things that matter most to us. A real but manageable test for one can be a fiery trial for another.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Real, Adversity, Son

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• In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Real, Criticism

  Evergreen Review Dec. 1964

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• If destiny could bring two people together, then it could just as easily tear them apart, and, if it could tear two people apart, then it could just as easily bring them back together again. There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny. It wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary.

  Lisa Jewell

  Destiny, Together Again, Two

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• That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. More often there’s a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; that’s religion.

  Aldous Huxley

  Reality, Common Sense, Brain

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• Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage it everything misfire.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Love Is, Trying

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• Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or a "Great Transformation" towards global sustainability would be initiated in due course. Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets.

  Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  Transition, Would Be, Phases

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• Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Race, Ability

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• Alexia had found pregnancy relatively manageable, up to a point. That point having been some three weeks ago, at which juncture her natural reserves of control gave way to sentimentality. Only yesterday she had ended breakfast sobbing over the fried eggs because they looked at her funny. The pack had spent a good half hour trying to find a way to pacify her. Her husband was so worried he looked to start crying himself.

  Gail Carriger

  Husband, Pregnancy, Eggs

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• As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.

  Rosanne Cash

  Grief, Writing, Loss

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• "Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum... In a world of hyperabundant content, point of view will become the scarcest of resources...

  Paul Saffo

  Views, Age, Information

  "It's The Context, Stupid" by Paul Saffo, www.wired.com. March 1, 1994.

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• Your clothing is the most important survival tool you have. Dress properly and any emergency you may have to endure becomes more manageable.

  Mors Kochanski

  Survival, Important, Dresses

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• Worship without wonder is lifeless and boring. Many have lost their sense of awe and amazement when it comes to God. Having begun with the arrogant presumption of knowing about God all that one can, they reduce Him to manageable terms and confine Him to a tidy theological box, the dimensions of which conform to their predilections of what a god ought to be and do.

  Sam Storms

  Knowing, Arrogant, Dimensions

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• I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Thinking, People, Generations

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I was obliged to take tough, painful and bold decisions to ensure a manageable tomorrow.

  Nicos Anastasiades

  Decision, Tough, Tomorrow

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• Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

  Jim Nussle

  Ifs And, Growing, Economy

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• There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.

  J. William Fulbright

  Years, Long, Problem

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.279, Random House

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• The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.

  Richard Price

  War, Lying, Writing

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• One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Lonely, Loneliness, Reading

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• If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable.

  Graham Joyce

  Writing, Feelings, Way

  "The magus of the Midlands", www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2000.

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• Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Term, Left

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.11, Fig

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