Quotes with exact

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  • Roland Barthes I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Franz Kafka 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.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Bernie Sanders It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Samuel Butler It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Hannah More It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Edmund Burke It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Joan Didion Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bill Flores Medical care is one of the only sectors in which Americans are asked to make significant, long-term decisions without knowing the exact price of those decisions up front. Americans deserve to make informed decisions about their medical options.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Stephen Leacock Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton My lowest days as a Christian [and There Were Low Ones - Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact] have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Albert Einstein Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Caroll Spinney Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view of the positive mind I have. Big Bird is sweet and nice and also sympathetic, as kids can identify with him even though he looks like such a bizarre character - great 8 feet 2 inches, a beak 18 inches long.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • L. Ron Hubbard Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.
    L. Ron Hubbard
    American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology (1911 - 1986)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck Politics is not an exact science.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Francis Bacon Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Francis Bacon Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Joseph Conrad Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Carla Hall The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.
    Carla Hall
    American chef and television personality (1964 - )
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous The difference between a child's aspiration and that family's situation, is the exact measurement of that family's frustrations.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Gerard De Nerval The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the ''I,'' under another form, continues the task of existence.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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