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  • We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

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  • Adam Clayton Powell A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
    Keep the Faith, Baby!
    Adam Clayton Powell
    American politician and pastor (1908 - 1972)
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  • Adolf Loos Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Tristan Tzara Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
    Tristan Tzara
    Romanian poet and artist (ps. by Sami Rosenstock) (1896 - 1963)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Ezra Pound Good art however ''immoral'' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Oscar Wilde He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bertrand Russell I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
    The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • John B. S. Haldane In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Lionel Trilling Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Louis de Bernieres Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 399
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Bethany Mota Maybelline's Precise Ink Pen Liner is by far the easiest liquid eyeliner I've ever used. I'm really bad at applying liquid liner, and it glides on so nicely and actually stays on all day.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Ben Bradlee Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.
    Ben Bradlee
    American journalist (1921 - 2014)
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  • Arthur Miller The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Eric Hoffer We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • James Boswell We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
    James Boswell
    Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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