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  • To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
  • The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.
  • Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

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  • Camille Paglia Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Caitlin Stasey 'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.
    Caitlin Stasey
    Australian actress (1990 - )
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  • Bruce Schneier ... if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.
    Schneier, Bruce (2005)
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Henry Thomas Buckle An accurate observer is, no doubt, rare; but an accurate thinker is far rarer.
    Henry Thomas Buckle
    English historian (1821 - 1862)
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  • Billy Joel Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Billy Joel Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Ezra Pound Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Arthur Miller I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Margaret Mead I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Asa Hutchinson In reference to Cat Stevens, it is very, very important we have accurate information on our terrorist watch list and our no fly list and that you have a remedy.
    Asa Hutchinson
    American businessman, attorney, and politician (1950 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bram Stoker Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
    Dracula
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Bruce Lipton Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Oscar Wilde No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Walsh Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
    Bill Walsh
    American football coach (1931 - 2007)
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  • Admiral Grace Hopper One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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  • Brad Feld Q1 is the easiest quarter to make. If you miss your Q1, regardless of the type of revenue you have, you aren't going to make your revenue plan for the year because your budget process isn't accurate.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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