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“I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.”
Rene Descartes
“Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.”
Tycho Brahe
“To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence”
Joseph Conrad
“The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.”
Alexander Haig
“What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.”
Will Rogers
“A diplomat is one that says something that is equally misunderstood by both sides, and never clear to either.”
“...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.”
Charles Darwin
“October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.”
Hal Borland
“A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color”
William Bolitho
