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'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.
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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.
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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.
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A modern city is the exact opposite of what everyone wants.
Source: Letter naar Robert Ross (31-5-1897) in Frank Harris - Oscar Wilde, His life and confessions -
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.
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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
Source: The Sign of the Four (1890) Ch. 1 -
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.
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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.
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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
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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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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I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.
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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.
Source: Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music -
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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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.
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