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• The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.

  Donna Farhi

  Breathing, Way, Inevitable Change

  Donna Farhi (1996). “The Breathing Book: Good Health and Vitality Through Essential Breath Work”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Food is exacting. The face is truly a canvas upon which our food choices paint an accurate picture. The body is truly a sculpture, chiseled and polished by our food choices.

  David Wolfe

  Choices, Sculpture, Body

  David Wolfe (2011). “Eating for Beauty”, p.12, North Atlantic Books

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• Investigative superstar Jason Leopold spares no one, least of all himself, in this devastatingly accurate first-hand exposé. News Junkie provides the best account so far of how, and why, current American journalism has become so pharisaical, spineless, and detached from the truth

  T. D. Allman

  Hands, Jason, News

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• We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.

  Henry Fielding

  Character, Evil, Balance

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1853). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Complete in One Volume”, p.540

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• Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions from vague or subjective input. The mind becomes aware without the direct intervention of reasoning. Once you can imagine something you can begin the process of creating it. Executives use intuition to make many product, investment, and hiring decisions, even if they deny it. Success in business may depend on an accurate gut.

  Jennifer James

  Spiritual, Business, Communication

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write.
  And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Prayer, Writing, Mind

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author”, p.80

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• I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Summer, Thinking, Poetry

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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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• The teaching that we receive is not necessarily very accurate. The value systems that our cultures have developed are not every open. They are very restrictive. We live in an age that is not enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Buddhism, Humanity

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• [In response to Alfred Tennyson's poem "Vision of Sin," which included the line "Every moment dies a man, every moment one is born."] If this were true, the population of the world would be at a stand-still. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of death. I would suggest that the next edition of your poem should read: "Every moment dies a man, every moment 1 [and] 1/16 is born." Strictly speaking, the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line, but I believe the figure 1 [and] 1/16 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry.

  Charles Babbage

  Believe, Men, Long

  New Scientist (p. 1428), December 4, 1958.

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• We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins) of publicans and sinners. This judgment, which separated knowledge of man from self-knowledge, was as nothing in God’s eyes. The Jew did not have a better understanding because he was able to judge the heathen. In the sphere of abstract morality this could possibly be said, but this is not Biblical morality - O man, who judgest others!

  G. C. Berkouwer

  Real, Eye, Biblical

  G. C. Berkouwer (1962). “Man: The Image of God”, p.27, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• By the way, Wonder Woman is Amazonian, and historically accurate Amazonian women actually had only one breast. So, if I'd really go 'by the book' ... it'd be problematic.

  Gal Gadot

  Book, Wonder Woman, Way

  "Gal Gadot on Wonder Woman casting, fan criticism, training, and more" by Chris Begley, batman-news.com. December 26, 2013.

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• A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a housing bubble

  Paul Krugman

  Past, Technology, Years

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• Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very few who can really see. Like you, he has an obsession with masks; he is a seer as you and I are. The common herd, of course thinks that he is mad.*****************You shall see what sort of man Ensor is, and what a marvellous insight he has into the invisible realm where our vices are created... those vices for which our faces make masks.

  Jean Lorrain

  Men, Thinking, Mad

  Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books

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• Wikipedia, eh? Must be accurate then.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wikipedia

  "Meeting Mr Pratchett". The Age Interview, www.theage.com.au. February 17, 2007.

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• If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Teaching, Mean, Simple

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Boredom has to be the most life sapping, mental disease you can be afflicted with.The most accurate definition of boredom I have ever heard is this - Boredom is the absence of a creative idea. But there is a simple cure - begin to think immediately of a better way to do something. The creative juices are within you but you must turn on the tap. Those who are bored are not living; they are dying. When their heart stops beating, it will be a mere formality. The best way to do anything has never been thought of. Get on a creative improvement kick and jar others mentally into the same activity.

  Bob Proctor

  Heart, Simple, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 28, 2012

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• Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.

  Max Ernst

  Records, Able, Possibility

  Quoted in Saranne Alexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).

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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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• And honestly, if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.

  Bruce Schneier

  Reading, Thinking, News

  "Should Terrorism be Reported in the News?". Cryptogram newsletter, www.schneier.com. May 15, 2005.

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• Do the structures of language and the structures of reality (by which I mean what actually happens) move along parallel lines? Does reality essentially remain outside language, separate, obdurate, alien, not susceptible to description? Is an accurate and vital correspondence between what is and our perception of it impossible? Or is it that we are obliged to use language only in order to obscure and distort reality -- to distort what happens -- because we fear it?

  Harold Pinter

  Moving, Mean, Reality

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• However accurate or inaccurate the agency's numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly presumes that the taxpayer is always wrong -- in any dispute with the government. In many cases, the IRS introduces no evidence whatsoever of its charges; it merely asserts that a taxpayer had a certain amount of unreported income and therefore owes a proportionate amount in taxes, plus interest and penalties.

  James Bovard

  Government, Law, Numbers

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