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Most often, the reason something is "on your mind" is that you want it to be different than it currently is, and yet: you haven't clarified exactly what the intended outcomes is; you haven't decided what the very next physical action step is; and/or you haven't put reminders of the outcome and the action required in a system you trust. That's why it's on your mind.
david allen— Chapter 1 (Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001))
Don't even step out of your garden gate until this matter has been clarified.
ernst kaltenbrunner— To Dr. Peter Kleist. Quoted in " The Last 100 Days" - by John Toland - 1966
In 1936 the notion of a computable function was clarified by Turing, and he showed the existence of universal computers that, with an appropriate program, could compute anything computed by any other computer. [...] In some subconscious sense even the sales departments of computer manufacturers are aware of this, and they do not advertise magic instructions that cannot be simulated on competitors machines, but only that their machines are faster, cheaper, have more memory, or are easier to program.
john mccarthy— "Towards a Mathematical Science of Computation", Information Processing 1962: Proceedings of IFIP Congress 62, ed. Cicely M. Popplewell (Amsterdam, 1963), pp. 21–28
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
thomas henry huxley— "On the Study of Biology" (1876).
"Racist" is a confusing word, and it should be clarified. Men have no special rights simply because they belong to one race or another. When you say "men," you have already imbued them with all their rights.
josé martí— Variant translation: Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.
In the Sabdam, emotions are withheld at the beginning; thereafter, when the dancer has clarified herself, they are released in a measured and disciplined manner. It is after, mastering this discipline that she dances the Varnam which is a living river that holds together movement and interpretation.
— In "T Balasaraswati On Bharatanatyam"
