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• It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Music Is

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• According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.

  Roy H. Williams

  Ocean, Space, Depth

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• Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it?

  Dee Hock

  Lying, Belief, Evoke

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• The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Learning, Language, Problem

  "New Textbooks for the "New" Mathematics". Richard P. Feynman, "Engineering and Science", Volume 28, No. 6, March 1965.

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• It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical element to it, which I like because you have to do very precise thinking. On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination are the only real limitation.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Jobs, Real, Learning

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• Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Geometry, Poetry Is, Subjects

  Letter to Louise Colet, 14 August 1853

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• Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

  Robert C. Solomon

  Perfection, Kitsch, Execution

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• When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

  Charlie Parker

  Beautiful, People, Firsts

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• I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will always stand out. And so the galleries began to hang my work in their best rooms, always in the middle, because my painting was attractive. It was precise. It was 'finished'.

  Tamara de Lempicka

  Rooms, Firsts, Painting

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• You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Mother, Running, Listening

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• The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called in question.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Nihilism, Belief, Moments

  "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind".

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• That's what this thing called Christian life is all about, isn't it. Going . . . yet not knowing. As followers of our Lord we believe He leads us in a certain direction . . . or in pursuit of a precise goal.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Believe, Knowing

  Charles R. Swindoll (1992). “Second Wind: Fresh Hope for the Road Ahead”, Zondervan

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• It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.

  A. N. Wilson

  Thinking, Opposites, History

  A. N. Wilson (2015). “After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World”, p.194, Macmillan

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• God is a meticulous clockmaker. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time. Neither a minute late nor a minute early. And for everyone without exception, the clock works accurately. For each there is a time to love and a time to die.

  Elif Safak

  Order, Earth, Clock

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• Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about how the inner translates into the outer, the sense that one is expected to perform grief palatably. (If you don’t seem sad, people worry; but if you are grief-stricken, people flinch away from your pain.)

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Pain, Grief, Differences

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.80, Penguin

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• Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Spiritual, Religious, Expression

  Lawrence Kushner (2010). “I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego”, p.36, Jewish Lights Publishing

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• Sometimes, you just have to reassure the ones you love in precise language that you'll always be there. Sometimes words are enough.

  Cassia Leo

  Language, Sometimes, Enough

  Cassia Leo (2014). “Black Box”, p.220, Gloss Publishing

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• The flow of people in a setting, their changing relationships to each other and their environment, and their constantly changing expressions and movements - all combine to create dynamic situations that provide the photographer with limitless choices of when to push the button. By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.

  Constantine Manos

  Real, Expression, People

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• That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.

  Peter Cushing

  Lucky, Needs, Moments

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• To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not even to come up with a solution, a sort of formula to control reality. Rather, it is an experience of release from all compulsions and sufferings, combined with a precise awareness of any relevent subject of knowledge. Having attained enlightenment one knows everything that matters, and the precise nature of all that is.

  Robert Thurman

  Knowledge, Reality, Oneness

  FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Oct 17, 2014

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• It is not enough to say, 'We are Muslims and have an ideology or our own': we must also be in a position to show that our ideology is vital enough to withstand the pressure of the changing times, and to decided in what way the fact of our being Muslims will affect the course of our lives: in other words, we must find out whether Islam can offer us precise directives for the formation of our society, and whether its inspiration is strong enough in us to translate these directives into practice.

  Muhammad Asad

  Strong, Inspiration, Practice

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• It seems now that the place where you see
  the most obvious censorship is on college campuses --
  the precise place where you would expect to see the least.

  Alan Charles Kors

  College, Censorship, Campus

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• The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

  Geneen Roth

  Spiritual, Purpose, Way

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• The best doctors found a middle position where they were neither overwhelmed by their feelings nor estranged from them. That was the most difficult position of all, and the precise balance - neither too detached nor too caring - was something few learned.

  Michael Crichton

  Caring, Doctors, Feelings

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.25, Vintage

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• I would like to find a more precise way to not only tell the stories of female characters, but also do so in a female "way." My biggest advice would be to trust yourself.

  Danae Elon

  Character, Advice, Female

  "TIFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Danae Elon – ‘P.S. Jerusalem’". Interview with Freja Dam, www.indiewire.com. September 11, 2015.

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