"You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way."
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"Well, some people die and then they sell more records, go figure."
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"There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!"
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"We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out - and we have only just begun."
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"It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty."
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"At best, God can be viewed as nothing more than an uncaring incompetent father-figure"
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"Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry."
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"It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them."
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"Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want."
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"I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington."
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"Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs."
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"If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it."
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"We don't talk about tennis. I figure she knows what she's doing. I mean, what am I going to tell her?"
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"I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me."
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"Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all"
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"Even my husband is happier when I'm happy. He has always said, "You figure out what you want to do," because he's discovered that personal happiness is connected to everything."
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"Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out."
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"In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures."
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"Many even see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama."
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"You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it."
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