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I'm too old to be farting around with stuff that isn't precisely what I want to do. — Wes Borland
There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile. — Richard Petty
If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose… — Howard Thurman
The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator… — Michael Crichton
The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological… — Ray Kurzweil
It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost anyone who comes… — Victor Davis Hanson
Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were… — Ben Bernanke
When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never â€“ since the objective is not to close a cycle, to generate a… — Augusto Boal
We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than… — John Banham
Hinduism would not be eternal were it not constantly growing and spreading, and taking in new areas of experience. Precisely because it has this power… — Sister Nivedita
The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder.… — Ken Wilber
Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What… — Henri Nouwen
Only in the context of the great encounter with Jesus can a real authentic struggle take place.Â The encounter with Christ does not take place… — Henri Nouwen
I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding… — Marguerite Yourcenar
I'm often amazed at the way politicians, who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks,… — Simon Hoggart
I exist here, now. I'm not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future. To exaggerate a… — Yohji Yamamoto
I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life. — James Branch Cabell
Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that, on general principle,… — Julian Sanchez
The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we are… — Carlo Rovelli

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