Precise Quotes

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It is not enough to say we were born to be Republicans, it's more precise to say Republicanism is part of our DNA, — Dolours Price
Whatseems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place in ideology seems… — Louis Althusser
Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense of… — Theodore Dreiser
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the… — Alfred North Whitehead
I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with… — William J. Clinton
It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of… — Henry Crew
I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise mixocological difference between… — David Foster Wallace
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with… — Arthur Miller
I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually. — Tennessee Williams
A professor was telling students about his colleagues class. Students in the other class had taken to tossing erasers at the clock. Each precise hit… — Vicki Davis
It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror,… — Winston Churchill
What is it in fact, this learning to fly? To be precise, it is 'to learn NOT to fly wrong.' To learn to become a… — Henri Mignet
I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and… — Bob Hoover
Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining… — Warren Buffett
You should be real witnesses of a world of doing and acting differently. But in life it is difficult for everything to be clear, precise,… — Pope Francis
Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence-so much so that they were quite unimpressed by any unfavorable evidence.… — Karl Popper
I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when not engaged in… — Paul Feyerabend
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it. — Baruch Spinoza
I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then I go over… — William Zinsser
ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours. — Maria Callas

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