Quotes with clear-sighted

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  • Cass Sunstein Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • May Sarton May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Bill Gates Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.
    Speech at the Computer History Museum, as quoted in InfoWorld magazine (October 2001)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Mike Tyson notoriously looked for a way out against Evander Holyfield when it was clear Holyfield had his number. Suddenly, Tyson's cowardice in gnawing off Holyfield's ear overshadowed nearly everything he had accomplished as a fighter.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Ben Bernanke Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, although whether the net effect is to increase or reduce inequality is not clear.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Adam Clarke Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Alain de Botton My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Steve Jobs My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
    Steve Jobs
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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  • Brendan Myers My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Bobby Flay Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • John Ruskin Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Barack Obama On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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  • Branford Marsalis One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Barbara Jordan One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Sinclair Lewis Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Hermann Goering Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis - German National Socialism.
    Hermann Goering
    German Nazi politician and military leader
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  • Arthur Levitt Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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