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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the… — Jonathan Sacks
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance. — Gerhard Schroder
If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools,… — Will Self
It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can. — Sargent Shriver
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify… — Susan Sontag
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. — Susan Sontag
All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In… — Lysander Spooner
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as… — Robert Louis Stevenson
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic… — Tom Stoppard
I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to… — Kristin Scott Thomas
It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we… — Voltaire
As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good… — Andrew Weil
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express… — Rebecca West
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you. — Robert Anton Wilson
A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of… — Robert Anton Wilson
On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe. — Tom Wolfe
The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life precisely because it has been an open-to-all land of opportunity where entrepreneurs, thinkers and innovators… — Ron Wyden

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