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734 Exact quotes by 612 unique authors

Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream of affording. Having… — Sheridan Morley
The military part of our information network - which we were accustomed to rely on for exact information - was the first part of the… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the… — Wilhelm Johannsen
You should show some respect for what other people see and feel, even though it be the exact opposite of what you see and feel. — Luigi Pirandello
All around the world there are 230 countries, and among those people I can speak 5 languages. Nevertheless, I can't find the exact word to… — Joo Won
That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all,… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed… — James Joseph Sylvester
Aight baby show me the exact spot, meet me at Hoyt & Schemethorn at 3 on the dot — Jeru the Damaja
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging… — Maurice Wilkes
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of… — Antoine Lavoisier
If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and… — Maurice Wilkins
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative art,… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a… — Svante Arrhenius
The determination of the relationship and mutual dependence of the facts in particular cases must be the first goal of the Physicist; and for this… — Franz Karl Achard
It is perplexing to see the flexibility of the so-called 'exact sciences' which by cast-iron laws of logic and by the infallible help of mathematics… — Vasco Ronchi
There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire… — Paul Bartsch
The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms. — Unknown Author
Contrary to a common myth, while there are general guidelines, there is no exact 'right' way to run ... I am amazed by the many… — Grete Waitz
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice,… — Georges Bernanos
Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing. — Al Pacino
I can be surfing the exact same wave and then sometimes something will just set off, even if I'm riding the same board the whole… — Mick Fanning
I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether… — Lion Feuchtwanger
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the… — George Orwell

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