Accurately Quotes
255 Accurately quotes by 228 unique authors
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Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how…
— Louis L'Amour
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The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals,…
— Denise Levertov
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No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.
— Gerald Jampolsky
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The point of asking questions is to find true answers; the point of measuring is to measure accurately; the point of making maps is to…
— Daniel Dennett
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Real anatomy exists in three dimensions, so any time you can view anatomical data in 3D, you'll have a much more accurate picture of the…
— Paul Brown
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The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building: four metal circles…
— Jonathan Larson
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I hold, as an article of faith, that the worth of an organisation can be accurately measured as the reciprocal of how many Hollywood beautiful…
— Barry Williams
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Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be…
— Diane Ravitch
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I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.
— Gordon Bell
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The Kerry campaign was a difficult one to be involved with, it is a real juggling act to set the tone and pace of these…
— Jennifer Granholm
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Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy†to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever…
— Bell Hooks
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.
— Michael Connelly
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I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor!…
— William Gibson
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.
— Tryon Edwards
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I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all…
— Paul Feig
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