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Accuracy Quote by Hugh Blair

“As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.” quote by Hugh Blair — Download Open image

“As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.”

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We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

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Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses…

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

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To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

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It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

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Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

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Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill…

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Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.

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In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.

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Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if…

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Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

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Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds…

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An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly…

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Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God.

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In software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really…

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Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a…

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There's a simplicity in typography that demands absolute accuracy... the only way you can experience it is by doing it, and you can't do…

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Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes.

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Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict scientific accuracy in my survey of the vast empyrean. Had I pursued my inquiries from down there on the ground, my data would be worthless. The earth, you see, pulls down the delicate essence…

Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing,…

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The federal government is starting to plan for climate change by making extended forecasts that can help people plan for extreme weather - because…

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Nobody sees reality whole; we all need others to show us the parts of it that they see better than we do. Nobody sees…

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