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• I'm not the only taxpayer who has no idea what he's sending to the IRS. This year, only 28 percent of all Americans will prepare their own tax returns, according to a voice in my head that invents accurate-sounding statistics.

  Dave Barry

  Years, Ideas, Voice

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• The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.

  P. J. Plauger

  Stupid, Two, Digital

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• Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Practice, Giving

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• Some people's unwillingness to think for themselves represents accurate self-evaluation.

  Arthur D. Hlavaty

  Thinking, Self, People

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• It has been a masterful fight-back by the big banks. We the paying public can't do anything much except admit defeat and settle back for the next set of bills. In the meantime, perhaps, we should try and think of a name for the new economic system, which certainly isn't capitalism ... The most accurate term would probably be "bankocracy".

  John Lanchester

  Fighting, Thinking, Names

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• If I'm shifted two steps toward third base and the ball goes up the middle, people say I have no range to my left. That's why those statistics aren't accurate. You're changing for every batter, sometimes with every pitch. You really can't make one statistic for every shortstop. You have to go by what you see.

  Derek Jeter

  Two, People, Balls

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• It's often the case that when a critic uses an embarrassingly accurate term to describe what a wrong-doer is doing, the wrong-doer protests: "Why don't you use my white-washed, conscience-soothing euphemism?" Such euphemisms, they claim, help promote "civilized debate."

  Steve Kangas

  White, Use, Doers

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• In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

  Michael Crichton

  Errors, Stories, Amusement

  "Why Speculate" by Michael Crichton, April 26, 2002.

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• A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.

  Paul Fussell

  Class, America, Tvs

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• Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more critical to accurate and relevant intelligence than independent analysis.

  Dennis C. Blair

  Independent, Important, Analysis

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• The words 'In God WE trust' are not only unconstitutional, they aren't even accurate.

  Anne Nicol Gaylor

  God We Trust, Unconstitutional

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• God created astrologers to make pollsters look accurate.

  John Kasich

  Looks

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• There were the events of 1968 when young people began to ask their parents, what did you do in the war? And since the middle- or late-'70s, the French have been absolutely obsessed with the Vichy regime. They have an institute of contemporary history that turns out first-rate scholarly work. Their textbooks are accurate. Whether the students actually read them is another matter.

  Robert O. Paxton

  War, People, Parent

  "War Crime Investigations Among France's Release Of Vichy Documents". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• I always like to think I build in historically accurate musical in-jokes that are so precise that like maybe there's 7 or 8 people in the world watching the show that will sit up and go, "Oh my God the music being played is the right kind of music!"

  Bear McCreary

  Thinking, People, Musical

  Source: collider.com

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• Obviously, the opinions that are most accurate are the ones that are closest to you - your crew, your friends, your family. Those people know who you are, and that's accurate.

  Joey Logano

  People, Opinion, Crew

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I had nothing to do with death panels. I thought it was a horrible phrase about end of life. I didn't think it was accurate, and I was - I've always been opposed to it. The reason why I stood behind that phrase "death tax" for so many years is because the only time that you could pay that tax, the only time, is on the death of a relative. And that's what makes it a death tax. You have to be accurate.

  Frank Luntz

  Thinking, Years, Phrases

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www-s4.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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• Allowing short selling is allowing people to sell - instead of having to buy the stock and then sell it, which doesn't do much; allow them to sell it, and then buy it. In which case they can express that information and the idea is that you would get more accurate valuation of companies by letting people express both their positive information and their negative information through either long or short selling.

  Robert F. Engle

  Ideas, Long, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• People have got to make their best calls in what they think about a case when they're covering it. But I do think the lesson there, and I guess stating the obvious, that oral argument can as often send a false signal as an accurate signal about where the thing is going.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Thinking, People, Covering

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I think it [ Difficult People] is for people who don't feel that they have been properly represented on TV. I think it's painting a very accurate if slightly exaggerated for comedic purposes view of the LGBT world in a way that we have never, ever seen in any television show.

  Billy Eichner

  Thinking, Views, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I mean, it was a rough place ["Wild Bill Hickok"], and you had to wear this kind of cloak that you were a badass, and the most efficient way to do that was with your language. Swearing was just a part of how you got by during the day, and it was quite historically accurate, that depiction.

  Keith Carradine

  Badass, Mean, Bills

  "Keith Carradine on Deadwood, Fargo, and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• I think if you look back at my projections and my prognostications, they turn out to be very, very accurate.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Looks, Turns

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I never know what to call the subjects in my pictures because I'm uncomfortable with the word actor. I think maybe subjects might be more accurate - or maybe even more accurate is objects.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Thinking, Actors, Might

  Source: theamericanreader.com

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• It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible experiments, and upon framing hypotheses with the greatest possible freedom from dogmatic prejudice. And if these were the really important things in life, physics would be an essential study for everybody.

  Anthony Standen

  Life, Freedom, Science

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• The other thing is that it's really hard to separate out the harassment from everything we do. When we started creating Tropes, we were hyper-aware of the intense scrutiny, the intense harassment, and the intense pressure to do something meaningful given the attention both positive and negative. That's carried over in terms of making sure that I produce the best work that I can, that's the most accurate, the most sensitive and engaged.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Meaningful, Creating, Attention

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Karl Marx left it to others to find the way beyond capitalism to a higher form of society. He saw his role as giving them as accurate a theory as he could of how capitalism works, which would also show them the reasons why it needs to be abolished and replaced by a freer and more human form of society.

  Allen W. Wood

  Giving, Needs, Roles

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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