Precisely Quotes
1050 quotes by 766 authors
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Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong…
— David Dreman
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Value investing doesn't always work. The market doesn't always agree with you. Over time, value is roughly the way the market prices stocks, but over…
— Joel Greenblatt
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If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?
— Charlie Brooker
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The seduction of evil is precisely in that it involves us in trying to eliminate it. When your consciousness is open, any action you take…
— Thaddeus Golas
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Satire works in a bunch of specific ways, like a very precisely-geared bomb. It's a bit like something that looks harmless, and you swallow it,…
— Steve Aylett
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Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that he speak beyond…
— Jean-Luc Marion
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If a stock doesn’t act right don’t touch it; because, being unable to tell precisely what is wrong, you cannot tell which way it is…
— Edwin Lefevre
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In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There, free of all…
— Pavel Florensky
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No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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At the soul level, we get precisely what we need in our lives for our spiritual growth. How we judge what we get determines whether…
— Colin Tipping
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Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away
— Ludwig von Mises
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It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.
— Stephanie Dowrick
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The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative…
— Oliver Burkeman
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The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable,
— Oliver Burkeman
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There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we…
— Eleanor Brown
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To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices…
— Susan Sontag
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The truth can be hard to take, but we have an obligation to look and see what's going on, and, if we don't like it,…
— Bill Maher
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Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.
— Andy Stanley
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Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to ask it. He…
— Etienne Gilson
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Radiance belongs to being considered precisely as beautiful: it is, in being, that which catches the eye, or the ear, or the mind, and makes…
— Etienne Gilson
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