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...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's… — Pablo Picasso
Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way.… — John Doerr
If Spirit has any meaning, it must be omnipresent, or all-pervading and all-encompassing. There can't be a place where Spirit is not, or it wouldn't… — Ken Wilber
More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an effective… — David Berlinski
The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that… — H. L. Mencken
A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds. — Jean Liedloff
Every successful photograph, except for lucky shots, begins with an idea and a plan. The more precisely a photographer knows what it is he wishes… — Andreas Feininger
Daniel! Luce said. He looks-Different and also precisely the same? Bill asked.Yes.That's his soul you recognize. Regardless of how you two may look on the… — Lauren Kate
The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very old and powerful… — David Foster Wallace
Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global... — Rene Thom
The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is uneven,… — Galileo Galilei
Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that there would not be one that resembles another, and not only plants as a whole,… — Leonardo da Vinci
Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within… — J. G. Ballard
How do you turn the invisible into the visible? The first step is to define your dream precisely; the only limit to what you can… — Tony Robbins
If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely… — Seth Godin
I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at… — Jacques Derrida
He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if… — Zygmunt Bauman
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory. — Talcott Parsons

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