Exact Quotes
734 quotes by 612 authors
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Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do the same thing, and all…
— Frederick H. Evans
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His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are…
— Richard Gere
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If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving…
— Honore de Balzac
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Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to determine the exact line ure…
— Thomas Browne
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It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.
— Charles Ives
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of 'hip-hop,' I think, is 'gay.' Like yo, you play a…
— Kanye West
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A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts…
— William Matthews
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The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist. Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding…
— John Bates Clark
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One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been…
— Jacob Bronowski
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For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes…
— Adolf Hitler
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The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in every new field…
— Werner Heisenberg
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
— James Russell Lowell
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If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the most exact standard…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps,…
— James Madison
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The purpose of life is joy! When you're in joy, you attract the highest and best in every area of your life. Joy increases to…
— Rhonda Byrne
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Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common…
— Thomas Ernest Hulme
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Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
— Lord Byron
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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails,…
— Virginia Woolf
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Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the…
— Dorothy Allison
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