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Precisely Quotes by John Ruskin
- I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is…
- Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.
- Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal
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- I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph or reflection ever gives us the same slant on ourselves… — Richard L. Evans
- What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three… — Amin Maalouf
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery,… — James A. Baldwin
- The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. — Konrad Adenauer
- It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate… — Walter Benjamin
- Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. — Warren G. Bennis