Accurately Quotes
255 quotes by 228 authors
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The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact,…
— Glenn Greenwald
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I fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to see what thoughts…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of a…
— Lawrence Lessig
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An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately…
— Carl Rogers
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If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the…
— Tom Robbins
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A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a…
— Stephen Hawking
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There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or…
— Harvey Pekar
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Solid scriptural theology should be valued in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith and practice-- books…
— J C Ryle
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Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure…
— Michael Pollan
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Gold is as steady as a rock, a standardbearer by which all currencies can be accurately measured.
— Mark Skousen
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You cannot accurately remember color ...
— Jay Maisel
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I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually is more artistic…
— Unknown Author
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For some reason that only a sociologist might be able to accurately explain, the Brazilian Press was extremely unkind to me, reporting only selective derogatory…
— Unknown Author
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His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such…
— Gunther Schuller
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Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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It really makes little difference in the long run whether The Book of the Law was dictated to [Crowley] by preterhuman intelligence named Aiwass or…
— Israel Regardie
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We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than…
— John Banham
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There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.
— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up a theory from…
— Francois Jacob
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