Slightly Quotes

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Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts… — Amos Tversky
I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it… — Charles Darwin
What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent?… — Alice Munro
The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on… — Neil Diamond
Turning fully toward the glass, I consider what I see. This reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched, and slightly stoop, would be alarming… — Michael J. Fox
Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as… — Julie Burchill
Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with… — John Fowles
If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town,… — John Wilmot
Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach… — Nikola Tesla
All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy. — Trevor Baylis
The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly more over here,… — Peter Drucker
For the third year in a row, the United States has set a record for winter warmth, federal scientists reported yesterday. With an average temperature… — William K. Stevens
There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or… — Harvey Pekar
Anyone who is different or is slightly out of the norm, is considered crazy. — Eric Cantona
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which… — Robert Doisneau
It slightly worries me that when people find a problem, they rush to judgment of what to do. — Janet Yellen
And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the… — Carol Moseley Braun
Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hairâ€™s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly… — Molly Ivins

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