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- Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists. — Heywood Hale Broun
- The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the… — Ernest Hello
- I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra. — Nicolas Malebranche
- Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a… — William Faulkner
- He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is… — Unknown Author
- Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself. — Eugene Delacroix
- Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography… — Charles Baudelaire
- Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels
- Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left… — Branch Rickey
- Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty,… — Charles Sanders Peirce
- On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead