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• If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing your eyes and mouth to experience darkness and silence. I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me. Do not be afraid to close your eyes and be silent in prayer, meditation, rest or sleep. In those states you may rediscover a new self. Then your life, time and thoughts will become yours again and you can live your unique myth.

  Bernie Siegel

  Prayer, Sleep, Eye

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• I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

  Anthony Storr

  Book, Writing, Way

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• The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

  Ron Jaworski

  Sports, Player, Challenges

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• A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions as to its final cause.

  Margaret Atwood

  Suicide, Finals, Answers

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.

  May Sarton

  Writing, Character, Years

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• Having found in many books different methods of going to GOD, and divers practices of the spiritual life, I thought this would serve rather to puzzle me than facilitate what I sought after, which was nothing but how to become wholly GOD'S. This made me resolve to give the all for the all; so after having given myself wholly to GOD, that He might take away my sin, I renounced, for the love of Him, everything that was not He; and I began to live as if there was none but He and I in the world.

  Brother Lawrence

  Spiritual, Book, Practice

  "The Practice of the Presence of God: The Best Rule of a Holy Life".

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• For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.

  Jo Nesbo

  Country, Home, Years

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• Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

  James Joyce

  Would Be, Dublin, Crosses

  James Joyce (2016). “ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)”, p.55, e-artnow

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• They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have baffled the men they themselves were before Pearl Harbor. Among MacArthur's ardent infantrymen were cooks, mechanics, pilots whose planes had been shot down, seamen whose ships had been sunk, and some civilian volunteers.

  William Manchester

  Men, Volunteer, History

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• People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.

  George Orwell

  Sleep, People, Interesting

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• I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles

  Norman Mailer

  Want, Retiring, Crosswords

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• Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is the same as being smart in anything, really. It's the ability to manipulate all the pieces of the puzzle in your mind, try to fit them together, and when they don't fit quite right... you sand the edges/corners and make them all fit.

  Gerald Jay Sussman

  Art, Writing, Engineering

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• I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind

  Nas

  New York, Mind, States

  Song: N.Y. State of Mind, Album: Illmatic, 1994

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• Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an affordable mortgage, or a college loan? In this timely and important book, political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains how the United States has come to rely on hidden, indirect policies that privilege special interests but puzzle regular citizens. American democracy can do better, and she shows how. Politicians and the public alike have much to learn from her brilliant and engaging analysis.

  Theda Skocpol

  Retirement, Book, College

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• Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.

  Raph Koster

  Fun, Games, Drug

  Raph Koster (2013). “Theory of Fun for Game Design”, p.40, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and, in any case, when you have solved one mystery you uncover others, perhaps to inspire greater poetry

  Richard Dawkins

  Beautiful, Inspire, Mystery

  Richard Dawkins (2000). “Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thinking, Civilization, Supposing That

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• A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Mind, Purpose

  Bertrand Russell, Alasdair Urquhart, Albert C. Lewis (1994). “Foundations of Logic, 1903-05”, p.420, Psychology Press

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• There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me, it'd be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how it has emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why.

  Jane Goodall

  Nature, Believe, Thinking

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• It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.

  Louis Armstrong

  Weed, Marijuana, Dope

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• Shattered dreams are never random. They are always a piece in a larger puzzle, a chapter in a larger story. The Holy Spirit uses the pain of shattered dreams to help us discover our desire for God, to help us begin dreaming the highest dream. They are ordained opportunities for the Spirit to awaken, then to satisfy our highest dream.

  Larry Crabb

  Dream, Pain, Opportunity

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• When weight loss becomes a goal in your life, eating right and exercising are just two pieces of the puzzle. Figuring out why you've put on the extra weight is the hardest part.

  Ali Vincent

  Health, Loss, Exercise

  Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.128, Rodale

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• I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Trying, Strategy

  Interview with Jennifer Messing, journalwomenwriters.wordpress.com. August 5, 2014.

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• There's still another problem which puzzles a lot of people - whether or not a baby will come within the budget. Our sentimental advice is to have one anyway, if you want one and have been through the marriage ceremony. The people who wait till they can afford a baby seldom have one at all except by surprise.

  Marjorie Hillis

  Baby, People, Waiting

  Marjorie Hillis (2011). “Orchids On Your Budget: Or Live Smartly on What You Have”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• Honestly, as an actor, all I need to know, the way I kind of look at a scene, is like a puzzle. There are certain puzzle pieces that are bigger than others, and all I need to know is if this is going to fit here to make this part of the puzzle work.

  Sarah Shahi

  Actors, Pieces, Way

  "Sarah Shahi Discusses Her Person Of Interest Debut: 'If Jason Bourne And Catwoman Had A Child, This Would Be Her'". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. February 20, 2013.

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