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So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a… — Vinton Cerf
In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you… — Esther Dyson
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely… — Gregory Bateson
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on… — Claude Levi-Strauss
We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which… — Douglas Coupland
Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we need… — Dick Pound
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is. — Esa-Pekka Salonen
Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that… — Robert Anton Wilson
It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and… — George Bernard Shaw
I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I… — Paullina Simons
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons,… — Rebecca Solnit
It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within… — Conrad Veidt
Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will… — Jay Weatherill
I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows… — Jennifer Weiner
The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us with a never-ending… — Albert M. Wolters
The patient endurance of the saints exhausts the evil power that attacks them, since it makes them glory in sufferings undergone for the sake of… — Maximus the Confessor
Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the… — Max Weber
Are the atoms of the dextroacid (tartaric) grouped in the spirals of a right-hand helix or situated at the angles of an irregular tetrahedron, or… — Louis Pasteur
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, [religious] faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude...… — Adolf Hitler
Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein… — Mary Ellen Chase

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