#direct

But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

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But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

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Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work. ↗

— Rob Lowe

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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

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I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way. ↗

— Josh Lucas

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We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

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I was headed in the wrong direction. I didn't think I'd make it to 21. My Uncle Chuck saved my life. He was a graphic designer, and he gave me my first sketchbook. In the front, he wrote, 'Wear it like your underwear.' ↗

— Richard MacDonald

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As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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