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• The faster you want to get rich, the more accurate with numbers you must be.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Numbers, Want, Rich

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• An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.

  Stanley Wolpert

  Fall, Excellent, British

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• Only human beings can look directly at something, have all the information they need to make an accurate prediction, perhaps even momentarily make the accurate prediction, and then say that it isn't so.

  Gavin de Becker

  Needs, Looks, Information

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Everyone lies to themselves, but many people do it with good intentions. They want to believe what they tell themselves, it is oftentimes the best possible version of reality for them. Although it may not be accurate, it is a mural of their desires, aspirations, optimism and passion. These people usually either need time or a new experience to discover the truth. People who lie to themselves for different reasons are oftentimes trying to avoid something or escape blame for things they have done.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Lying, Believe, Passion

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• There is beauty in space, and it is orderly. There is no weather, and there is regularity. It is predictable. Just look at our little Explorer; you can set your clock by it-literally; it is more accurate than your clock. Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws, and obey them, space will treat you kindly.

  Wernher von Braun

  Law, Weather, Space

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• Physiology is the basis of all medical improvement and in precise proportion as our survey of it becomes more accurate and extended, it is rendered more solid.

  John Gorrie

  Medical, Improvement, Surveys

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• Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Tricks, Accuracy, Reports

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• Try to be accurate about stuff.

  Anne Enright

  Trying, Stuff, Accuracy

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.

  Alfie Kohn

  Education, Teacher, School

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• Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much.
  Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful.
  And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless.

  Seth Godin

  Hands, Insightful, Intuition

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• Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

  Rollo May

  Creative, Consciousness, Intensity

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.

  Karen Armstrong

  Reading, Purpose, Stories

  Karen Armstrong (2004). “A Short History Of Myth”, p.137, Canongate Books

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• I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Cameras, Way

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• Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.

  Bob Hoover

  Flying, Stories, Done

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• The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising my own experiences. It's myth making.

  Li-Young Lee

  Memories, Problem, Storytelling

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• The more you understand the magnitude of God's grace, the more accurate will be your view of the depth of your unrighteousness ; and the more you understand the depth of your unrighteousness , the more you will appreciate the magnitude of God's gift of grace.

  Paul David Tripp

  Views, Appreciate, Grace

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• The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

  Nikola Tesla

  Shows, Foresight

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “Famous Scientific Illusions”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m going to argue here that the most accurate and least muddled way to think of permaculture is as a design approach, and that we are often misdirected by the fact that it fits into a larger philosophy and movement which it supports. But it is not that philosophy or movement. It is a design approach for realizing a new paradigm.

  Toby Hemenway

  Philosophy, Thinking, Design

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• It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard.

  Michael Shannon

  Believe, Play, People

  Interview with Paul Rudd, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 17, 2013.

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• Providing accurate portrayals of characters is something I want to pay ample attention to. If I don’t stick to that thought, then we’d have to lower the quality or break the balance of the game. Something that goes way off spec could break the entire game.

  Masahiro Sakurai

  Character, Games, Balance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.

  Hayden Christensen

  Views, Understanding, Trying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The key to digital effects is to do things that are visually accurate but done cheaply and approximated.

  Masi Oka

  Keys, Done, Digital

  "Masi Oka: coder, actor, hero". www.wired.com. October 25, 2006.

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• Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.

  Adam McKay

  Would Be, Definitions, Corporations

  "Citizens United : A Week Later" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2010.

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• The drawings don't start with 'a beautiful mark'. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It doesn't have to be an accurate drawing, but it has to stand for an observation, not something that is abstract, like an emotion.

  William Kentridge

  Beautiful, Art, Drawing

  Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, William Kentridge (1998). “William Kentridge”, Societe Des Expositions Des Beaux

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• We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us.' The government does not in any accurate sense 'represent' the majority of the people. But, even if it did, even if 70 percent of the people decided to murder the remaining 30 percent, this would still be murder and would not be voluntary suicide on the part of the slaughtered minority. No organicist metaphor, no irrelevant bromide that 'we are all part of one another,' must be permitted to obscure this basic fact.

  Murray Rothbard

  Suicide, Government, People

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