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  • Angela Davis I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Feirstein I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • Anton Chekhov If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a mond and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Anton Chekhov If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Eldridge Cleaver In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • John Naisbitt Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
    John Naisbitt
    American author and public speaker (1929 - )
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  • Karen Horney Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?
    Karen Horney
    German-American psychoanalyst (1885 - 1952)
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  • John Maynard Keynes It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Voltaire It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Selma James It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today - to women.
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  • Walter Benjamin It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Breyten Breytenbach It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Max Frisch It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
    Max Frisch
    Swiss writer (1911 - 1991)
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  • Ann Coulter Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • W. H. Auden Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
    Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bell Hooks Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Anna Freud Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Aldous Huxley The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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