Quotes with accuracy

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  • A. J. P. Taylor A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Charles Simmons Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy of dishonesty.
    Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker, containing over a thousand subjects alphabetically and systematically arranged (1852) Accuracy
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Anna Jameson Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Tryon Edwards Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Plato Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Arthur C. Nielsen Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.
    Arthur C. Nielsen
    American businessman and engineer (1897 - 1980)
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  • Saul Bellow Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
    Saul Bellow
    American writer (1915 - 2005)
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  • John Stuart Mill General laws may be laid down respecting the tides; predictions may be founded on those laws, and the result will in the main, though often not with complete accuracy, correspond to the predictions.
    A System of Logic, Book 6, The Logic of the Moral Sciences Ch. 3
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Samuel Johnson In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bob Woodward It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.
    Post Reporters Pulitzer Prize Is Withdrawn; Pulitzer Board Withdraws Post Reporters Prize (19 April 1981)
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Lord George Byron My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ben Jonson Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Florence Scovel Shinn The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
    Florence Scovel Shinn
    American artist, writer
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  • Carl Bernstein The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Arthur C. Nielsen Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.
    Arthur C. Nielsen
    American businessman and engineer (1897 - 1980)
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  • Asa Hutchinson We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.
    Asa Hutchinson
    American businessman, attorney, and politician (1950 - )
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