Quotes with clear-sighted

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  • Anna Freud Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Carl Sandburg People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw.
    People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Paul Valery Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Ben Goldacre Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Seneca Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Alan Greenspan Since becoming a central banker, I have learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
    Senaats committee in 1987
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Bill Frist Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Boris Becker Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • L'Engle Madeleine That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
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  • Billy Graham The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Agnes Repplier The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Bell Hooks The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.
    The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • B. F. Skinner The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Gamal Abdel Nasser The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.
    Gamal Abdel Nasser
    Egyptian president and general (1918 - 1970)
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  • George Orwell The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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