Precisely Quotes
1050 quotes by 766 authors
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When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a…
— Bram Fischer
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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous…
— Karen Armstrong
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Drawing Lavi’s smile eases me precisely because he has such a sad fate.
— Katsura Hoshino
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But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the…
— Derrick Jensen
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Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each…
— Benjamin Hoff
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Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence…
— Miroslav Volf
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Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselves…. For men…
— Whittaker Chambers
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If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what?
— Peter J. Carroll
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A myth is a fantasy, a preferred lie, a foundational story, a hypnotic trance, an identity game, a virtual reality, one that can be either…
— Ginette Paris
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What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
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As a counselor, I have spoken with many people who want to know their spiritual gifts. They come hoping for some sort of diagnostic test…
— Edward T Welch
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The mantras, however, are mysterious and each word is profound in meaning. When they are transliterated into Chinese, the original meanings are modified and the…
— Kukai
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I did interviews with most of the TechCrunch50 experts backstage and there was a common gripe about the companies launching there: Not enough passion, not…
— Sarah Lacy
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To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves unexplained the origin…
— Richard Dawkins
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
— Ludwig von Mises
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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only…
— Nikola Tesla
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It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in…
— Simone Weil
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I hear what many of you are saying: We don’t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the…
— Jessica Zafra
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Nothing can happen, nothing can occur in your life which is not a precisely perfect opportunity for you to heal something, create something, or experience…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Here's what I believe is sexy at work: being strong and committed and confident, being precisely who you are and in hot pursuit of the…
— Charlotte Beers
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