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The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems.

The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn by heart is to afford the text or music an indwelling clarity and life-force.

The problem is not in the clarity of the revelation. The problem is in the darkness of the human mind.

The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer…to achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood.

The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.

There has to be certainty and there has to be clarity. There can't be ambiguity, .. This has to be certain, clear in all respects from all the parties so nobody is in any doubt about what the future holds.

The risk of insult is the price of clarity.

There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.

There's also a lot of punch you get from doing an extreme closeup and have it just be that image with nothing around it. There's a clarity and precision and impact there that you sometimes lose if you put everything else in that background.

There's only one note you ever get in broadcast and that's clarity.

The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational role. Lack of clarity in the concepts of metaphysics implies lack of clarity in other disciplines - both theoretical and practical disciplines - employing those concepts or employing concepts that depend on those of metaphysics.

The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better.

The strength of the poetry as we enter into whatever it is we are entering into, will be determined by the clarity of the thinking we put into it.

The worth of a faith does not consist in the clarity with which it is stated but in the steadfastness with which it is defended.

The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.

The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life as it truly is, enormous, appalling, devastating. You see the great sinkholes it makes in people and the harrowing lengths to which love will go to fill them.

The whole creation is so tenderly balanced - this manifests the mastery of the Creator.

Things either become unclear in a story or they're just ambiguous with no real point. So defined gray area with clarity that also works in the narrative, that's tricky.

They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.

Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.

Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.

To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

Truth and clarity are complementary.

True, but irrelevant.

True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness.

To get more clarity, take a step in the direction of the destination.

To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. That perhaps being amidst the undesecrated beauty of the wilderness meant I too could be undesecrated, regardless of the regrettable things I'd done to others or myself or the regrettable things that had been done to me. Of all the things I'd been skeptical about, I didn't feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.

Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.

Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.

Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?

We all strive to find moments of clarity, of order.

We are already complete. All we need is the clarity to recognize the wholeness that is us.

We do, in former chairman Lee Atwater's words, offer the party as a big tent, and therefore that message has to be clear. How we do that within the platform, the preamble to the platform or whatnot, that remains to be seen. But that message will have to be articulated with great clarity.

When you come to a fork in the road, be still, and see with your mind's eye. There you find the clarity you seek.

We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.

We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation.

What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control avian influenza as a result.

What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.

When the very source of creation is within you, all the solutions are within you. The problems are just created by you.

Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?

Without focusing and getting to clarity you cannot lead. You cannot motivate. You cannot plan. You cannot communicate.

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

You are asked to keep a ledger - a small notebook will do - of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.