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• I think it's safe to say that it's rather premature for anyone to make any initial assessment or analysis of Kim Jong-un, or have an accurate impression on Kim Jong-un.

  Lee Myung-bak

  Thinking, Assessment, Analysis

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• What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  History, Historical, Weapons

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke”, p.146, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is inaccurate to think the gospel is what saves non-Christians, and then Christians mature by trying hard to live according to biblical principles. It is more accurate to say that we are saved by believing the gospel, and then we are transformed in every part of our minds, hearts, and lives by believing the gospel more and more deeply as life goes on.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Believe, Heart

  "Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City".

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• Our Cosmic Habitat is certain to be widely quoted and widely read. It is beautifully written, using inspiring and stimulating analogies. While the book is intended for the nonscientist, it provides an accurate guide to the best current thinking about the nature and constitution of our universe. If I wanted to give a gift to a person I would like to become a close friend, this is the book I would choose.

  John N. Bahcall

  Book, Thinking, Giving

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• Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?

  Arthur Hailey

  Barometer

  Arthur Hailey (2014). “The Moneychangers”, p.171, Open Road Media

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• A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Heart, Errors

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• But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices; cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness, in a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way. My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable. Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Christian, Religious, Mean

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• Stuart Clark's The Sun Kings is undoubtedly the most gripping and brilliant popular-science history account that I have ever read. It is informative, accurate, and relevant. Clark's ability to write so vividly makes me seethe with jealousy.

  Owen Gingerich

  Kings, Writing, Sun

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• This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time. The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each other but not if they were moving. This has been confirmed by a number of experiments, including one in which an extremely accurate timepiece was flown around the world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth

  Stephen Hawking

  Time, Moving, Two

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• Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

  Margaret Culkin Banning

  Dream, Fiction, Facts

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• An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to the line of freedom with the passage of time-but, like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal.

  Susan Faludi

  Curves, Rights, Goal

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of number." With a bit of prodding as to what kind of study they mean, you may be able to induce them to come up with the description "the science of numbers." But that is about as far as you will get. And with that you will have obtained a description of mathematics that ceased to be accurate some two and a half thousand years ago!

  Keith Devlin

  Mean, Years, Two

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• Many Christians have the mistaken notion that eternal life begins when they die. But that is not biblically accurate. Eternal life begins when we are born again into the Kingdom of God.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Kingdoms, Born Again

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• All the inventions and devices ever constructed by the human hand or conceived by the human mind, no matter how delicate, how intricate and complicated, are simple, childish toys compared with that most marvelously wrought mechanism, the human body. Its parts are far more delicate, and their mutual adjustments infinitely more accurate, than are those of the most perfect chronometer ever made.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Simple, Hands

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• I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Wish, Certain

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• I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?

  Steve Berry

  Knows

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• But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

  Lake Bell

  New York, Hipster, America

  Interview with Sachin Bhola, www.askmen.com.

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• I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles on an issue as serious as climate change when one article is actually gibberish masked in pseudoscience and the other is well informed and accurate.

  Jay Griffiths

  Two, Issues, Climate

  "Don't give climate change heretics an easy ride" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

  Jennifer Egan

  Teenage, Rocks, Years

  "Author Jennifer Egan: Making Her Own Rules". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 25, 2011.

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• If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

  Lewis Carroll

  Long, Giving, Inspire

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.927, Race Point Pub

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• Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for the teen to have sex. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, the more children learn abour sexuality from talking with their parents and teachers and reading accurate books, the less they feel compelled to find out for themselves.

  Benjamin Spock

  Teacher, Sex, Children

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• Getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision.

  Dan Quayle

  Stupid, Politics, Cruise

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• Facebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There's a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this.

  Sean Parker

  New Relationship, Bored, Trying

  "Sean Parker ‘Bored’ By Facebook — And It Seems He’s Not The Only One" By Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I know what's it's like to grow up with ADHD and how important it is for parents, caregivers and patients, to have access to accurate information.

  Ty Pennington

  Growing Up, Parent, Important

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

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• We have endless books about whether Jesus existed, or whether the Jesus we have learned about is really accurate and historical or mythical. We have endless complicated tracts on fine technical issues, but we don't explore Jesus' way to happiness and peace, or try to understand his feelings about God and creation of how he views our relationship with God, or his attitude toward human weakness. Understanding these things could help us immensely in our own search for inner peace and a meaning to life.

  Joseph Girzone

  Jesus, Attitude, Book

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