Precisely Quotes
1050 quotes by 766 authors
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Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power
— Andrea Dworkin
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Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every…
— Seth Godin
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It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Standards of beauty describe in precise terms the relationship that an individual will have to her own body. They prescribe her mobility, spontaneity, posture, gait,…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate…
— Carl Jung
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Creative people rarely need to be motivated-they have their own inner drive that refuses to be bored. They refuse to be complacent. They live on…
— Donald Trump
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
— Robert Greene
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Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The single most important principle I ever discovered is this: the goal or purpose of the Christian is precisely the pursuit of happiness - in…
— Sam Storms
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Beautifully-acted and precisely observed, ILO ILO is an amazing debut, full of heart and intelligence.
— Ang Lee
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I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds…
— Tilda Swinton
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I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else…
— Mark Twain
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The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.
— C.S. Lewis
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I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively promotes one form…
— Mike Rowe
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Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy…
— Henri Nouwen
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Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are…
— Carl Jung
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