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My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation… — Abraham Lincoln
Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We… — Sri Chinmoy
That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now... — Tim Ferriss
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is… — James A. Baldwin
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest… — Tim Ferriss
Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for… — Gunter Grass
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through… — James A. Baldwin
The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence… — H. L. Mencken
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations. — Andre Gide
The angels are a strange genus, they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves soul-less beings who represent nothing… — Carl Jung
But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them? — Alexander McCall Smith
Step confidently forward in the precisely the direction that is the most challenging to you. Because in that same direction, you'll also find what is… — Ralph Marston
Communication is a science as well as an art. What does speaking precisely mean? You are consciously communicating with another person at that person's frequency,… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct… — John von Neumann
In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds… — James Clerk Maxwell
Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling… — John Taylor Gatto

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