If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
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Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be… — Siegfried Lenz Copy Share Image
“Probably many people’s vision of “thinking something through” is of this nature: you do precisely what you want to do—if you can.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I know precisely what it takes to become a business success and I will certainly draw upon my own experiences when considering… — Touker Suleyman Copy Share Image
One little known secret to making precisely the right move, at precisely the right time in your life is knowing that in… — Mike Dooley Copy Share Image
Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive rendering of our conscious… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
We have learned that precision munitions go precisely where they're targeted to go. We've learned that the introduction of human beings in… — Tommy Franks Copy Share Image
Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when… — David Liss Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a… — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image
After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen.… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what… — K'naan Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Mexico has perhaps, in some ways, a good practice, in which it has officials devoted precisely to hold those children, to retain… — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear;… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
It's not precisely that I'm not ambitious. I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better… — Summer Phoenix Copy Share Image
I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything.… — Bruce Feirstein Copy Share Image
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses,… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses,… — John W. Dawson Copy Share Image
The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove… — Viet D. Dinh Copy Share Image
Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and… — Randy West Copy Share Image
I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that.… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The state can be a force for good. The Rule of law is absolutely essential to a good life. God has instituted… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
Especially where financial matters are concerned, when it comes to dissolving a marriage, any dissembling at all is strictly against the law… — Laura Wasser Copy Share Image
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
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