The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data storage, imaging and retrieval techniques - all of this is coalescing toward the potential of a truly demonic or angelic kind of self-imaging of our culture. . . And the people who are on the demonic side are fully aware of this and hurrying full-tilt forward with their plans to capture everyone as a 100% believing consumer inside some kind of a beige furnished fascism that won't even raise a ripple.
I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.
But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.
I keep saying this about a mental state, but the more that I am physically active, the more that my mind is clear.
One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question
One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.
Son, you can't go around painting yourself black, you hear?" "Why not, Papa?" "Because they'll take you away. " "Why?" "Because you shouldn't want to be like black people or Jewish people or anyone who is. . . not us. " "Who are Jewish people?" "You know my oldest customer, Mr. Kaufmann? Where we bought your shoes?" "Yes. " "Well, he's Jewish. " "I didn't know that. Do you have to pay to be Jewish? Do you need a license?". . . . . ". . . you've got beautiful blond hair and big safe blue eyes. You should be happy with that; is that clear?
Its minority rule and majority limited rights. In fact it's set up that way. If you read the framers of the constitution, including James Madison, he was pretty clear about it.
The age calls for simple statements and restatements of simple truths. The prophets of doom are involved, those who would bring light must be clear.
Bring forth what is true; Write it so it it's clear. Defend it to your last breath.
Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.
When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.
The prison system today is so messed up. Some people say, "Some criminals are made in prison," and it's actually true. The numbers and the facts are very clear. Almost 70% re-offend, and they re-offend, more often than not, with a worse crime than what they were put away for. And what's mind-boggling is that it's not in anyone's interests. It's a waste of enormous resources, with money, but also all of these young men and women that have their lives ruined.
I think it is very important for any U. S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.
Caesar Flickerman asks if the president has a date in mind. "Oh, before we set a date, we better clear it with Katniss's mother," says the president. The audience gives a big laugh and the president puts his arm around me. "Maybe if the whole country puts its mind to it, we can get you married before you're thirty. " "You'll probably have to pass a new law," I say with a giggle. "If that's what it takes," says the president with conspiratorial good humor. Oh, the fun we two have together.
I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.
Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.
There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.