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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Khalil Gibran / Poet
Inspirational
Intelligence
Journey
Knowledge
Wisdom
Perplexity
Beginning
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Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.
Mark Twain / Author
Answers
Perplexity
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The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.
Confucius / Philosopher
Wise
Anxiety
Perplexity
Virtuous
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton / Writer
Science
Decision
Interesting
Interesting Things
Perplexity
Arises
Interested
Properly
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt / Philosopher
Core
Crime
Evil
Hypocrisy
Hypocrite
Perplexity
Radical
Rotten
Really
Us
Only
True
Confront
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As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation.
Ellen Gustafson / Businessperson
Hunger
Investigation
Obesity
Perplexity
Problem
Advocate
Existing
Further
Global
Increasingly
System
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Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody.
Donald Barthelme / Author
Formal
Laboratory
Perplexity
Second World War
American Writers
War World More
War World American
Painters
Troubled
World War
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The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.
Brian Greene / Theoretical Physicist
Women
Men
Creativity
Details
Discomfort
Extraordinary
Feats
Harmonious
Ingenuity
Inspire
Men And Women
Mind
Ordinary
Perplexity
Resolution
Men Women Mind
Quite
Awaiting
Women Men Mind
Inspires
Ordinary Men
Otherwise
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The year after Russell retired, in the famous seventh game of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, Willis Reed, the New York Knicks center, limped onto the court against the Los Angeles Lakers, inspiring his team and freezing Chamberlain into a benign perplexity.
Frank Deford / Sportswriter
Inspiring
New York
Famous
Benign
Chamberlain
Court
Finals
Freezing
Garden
Lakers
Los Angeles
Madison
Nba
Perplexity
Retired
Team
Angeles
Reed
Center
Los
Onto
Russell
Seventh
Square
York
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If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.
Ellen G. White / Author
Apostles
Bible
Christ
Consequence
Inspired
Perplexity
Severe
Trials
Adorn
Afflictions
Attribute
Believing
Christians
Unpopular
Instructions
Obey
Save
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I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
Jose Saramago / Writer
Positive
Appreciated
Copies
Doubt
Exhausted
Hero
Humans
Perplexity
Productive
Uncertainty
Writing
Heroes
Prefer
Cliches
Literary
Model
Just Because
Material
Provides
Raw
Raw Material
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You don't know what you need when you're a young writer. You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but if you're deep in the perplexity of your own process, as you should be, sorting it out in your own way, nothing is going to guide you more than small gestures of encouragement.
David Means /
Encouragement
Gestures
Input
Perplexity
Sorting
Comments
Guide
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