Quotes with exact

  • In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
  • Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Carlyle 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.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Joseph Addison Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Oscar Wilde A modern city is the exact opposite of what everyone wants.
    Letter naar Robert Ross (31-5-1897) in Frank Harris - Oscar Wilde, His life and confessions
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bee Wilson A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Gustave Flaubert All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
    Gustave Flaubert
    French writer (1821 - 1880)
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  • Bertrand Russell Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Albert Camus At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bill Griffith But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
    The Sign of the Four (1890) Ch. 1
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Bill Cosby Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • George Sand Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Virginia Woolf For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Henry David Thoreau He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Amelia E. Barr Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
    Amelia E. Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Alfred Rosenberg I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • Aaron Copland I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.
    Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Alec Baldwin I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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