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«I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy»
«Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me and everybody»
Author: Thomas Ernest Hulme
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
common language, communal, compromise, exact, expresses
«Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.»
Author: Denis Diderot
| About:
Genius,
Nature,
Solitude
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combined, diligent, exact, experiments, geniuses, observation, These Three
«Life is not an exact science, it is an art.»
«It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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controversy, dispute, exact, gains, good-tempered, good temper, in dispute, scores, shown, temper
«Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise they are inaccurate and insufferable, for they are only right when the principles are quite clear»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
axiom, axioms, definitions, exact, explained, inaccurate, insufferable
«Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
conference, conferences, exact, exacted, exacting, exacts, reading
«I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Advice
| Keywords:
exact, going away, listened, respectfully
«More Muslims have died at the hands of killers than - I say more Muslims - a lot of Muslims have died - I don't know the exact count - at Istanbul. Look at these different places around the world where there's been tremendous death and destruction because killers kill.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
exact, have died, Istanbul, killers, Muslims, The Killer, The Killers, tremendous
«In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
exact, in the long run, long run, symbol, The Long Run
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