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734 Exact quotes by 612 unique authors

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be… — John Tukey
Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly… — George C. Wallace
Truth is exact correspondence with reality. — Paramahansa Yogananda
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. — Frank Zappa
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them… — Simone Weil
It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're… — Alice Hoffman
The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save… — Vladimir Nabokov
I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition… — John F. Kennedy
Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, "Do I… — Steven Wright
Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience. — Pam Brown
Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word 'pravda'? Ponder and weigh this insufficiency in your mind.… — Julian Barnes
It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them… — George Eliot
In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to… — George Washington
A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers. — Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from the exact opposite… — Haruki Murakami
Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come. — Frances Mayes
He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession. — Ian Fleming
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must… — Frederick Douglass
I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither… — Charlotte Bronte
Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence.... — Robert Anton Wilson
It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. — Ayn Rand
there is no moment more precious than the exact moment you are living now — Obert Skye
I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and… — Brian Selznick
Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the… — Haruki Murakami
Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see… — Chuck Palahniuk

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