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That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

William Butler Yeats

Growing Up, Pain, Men

William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you that sense of possibility.

Caio Fonseca

Trying, Quality, Possibility

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As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.

Aphra Behn

Real, Passion, Love Is

Aphra Behn (2009). “Oroonoko and Other Writings”, p.75, Oxford Paperbacks

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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history.

Xavier Becerra

Hippie, Unfinished Work, Years

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In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It becomes part of a new dynamic: how people will occupy it, use it, think about it.

Daniel Libeskind

Thinking, People, New Life

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The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.

Abraham Lincoln

War, Unfinished Work, Long

Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.

Milton H. Erickson

Should, Incomplete, Humans

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The finality of Christs redemption for us is intimately tied to the finality of his revelation to us. . . . If we say revelation is not complete, we must admit that somehow the work of redemption also remains unfinished. . . . Scripture is enough because the work of Christ is enough. They stand or fall together.

Kevin DeYoung

Fall, Together, Redemption

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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.

Harold Robbins

Manuscripts

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Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

Jeanette Winterson

Inspirational, Children, Kids

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The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.

Paulo Freire

Character, Reality, Ongoing

Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.60, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity.

Robert McKee

Integrity, Unfinished Work, Theatre

Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.7, Harper Collins

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A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer and the painter can erase some of their past efforts, we cannot. We are stuck with what we have lived through. The trick is to finish it with a sense of design and a flourish rather than to patch up the holes or merely to add new patches to it.

Harry S. Broudy

Past, Artist, Unfinished Work

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The thing is not to leave unfinished business; make every day count.

Wally Amos

Unfinished Business

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Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us.

Maurice Nicoll

Lying, Humanity, Imperfect

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Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.

Jack Newfield

Sober, Judgment, Controversial

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Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.

George Weigel

Democracy, Generations, Live Free

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While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible.

Walter J. Phillips

Anxiety, Finishing, Unnecessary

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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.

Agnes Repplier

Book, Heart, Men

Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never stagnate in the certitude of ideology or the finalities of dogma.

Robert Kennedy

Forever, Growth, Society

Robert F. Kennedy (1962). “"We Must Meet Our Duty and Convince the World that We are Just Friends and Brave Enemies". (1. Ed.)”

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The unfinished is nothing.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Quitting

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Of course, if you have thought up to now that an actor relies merely on inspiration you will have to change your mind. Talent without work is nothing more than raw unfinished material.

Constantin Stanislavski

Inspiration, Mind, Actors

Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “An Actor Prepares”, p.78, A&C Black

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I have some unfinished business to complete at the University of Oregon.

Chip Kelly

Unfinished Business, Oregon, University

"Broncos coordinator to speak with Raiders again". www.sfgate.com. January 24, 2012.

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Luckily, growing up "unfinished" can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don't have to be finished to be awesome.

Stephen H. Segal

Growing Up, People, Generations

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Once you start something, finish it. Don't accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects.

Ed Bliss

Time Management, Management, Projects

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