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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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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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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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When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.

Maurice Saatchi

Mind, Should, Distinction

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In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers, and other entities that are the remnants of loss and dispossession in the law. Dogs and people are abundantly present here, even as the legal fictions they are made to inhabit are exposed with acid lucidity. These are hard histories made readable by Dayan's precious acts of writing.

Donna J. Haraway

Dog, Book, Writing

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ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.

Maria Callas

Art, Thinking, Voice

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Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to its agents the marvellous faculty of having precise ideas of a god composed of so many contradictory qualities?

Baron d'Holbach

Men, Ideas, Giving

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We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke between day and night: the precise moment does not matter. There was no painted sign to say: 'You are now entering Imperium.' Yet it was a very old road and the voice of history was saying: 'Whether you know it or not, the act of crossing may be irreversible.' And now, not far ahead, is a sign that reads: 'No U-turns.'

Garet Garrett

Lying, Night, Voice

Garet Garrett (1961). “Rise of Empire”

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The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams, gasoline, guitars screaming like whips, MIDI-programmed Thanatos, with sufficient amplitude to occupy that hollow space where consciousness once resided. These Dionysians obliterate themselves by removing filters, ultimately becoming insensate with sensation. This mode of behaviour originates in the superstitious belief that transcendence is acquired in the precise ratio by which reason is destroyed.

Adam Parfrey

Guitar, Class, Space

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Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

Ben Bradlee

Thinking, Editors, Lazy

"Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of working is backwards. I rely on the machines for doing the gross stock removal and then, when it comes to the final refinements and fitting of joints and things, making things work together, I rely more on sharp-edged tools that I push by hand.

Martin Puryear

Hands, People, Together

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Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.

Alfred Adler

Unique, Expression, Language

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[On Chinese Internet,] freedom is a targeted and precise window.

Michael Anti

Chinese, Internet Freedom, Window

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I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.

Lord Mountbatten

Truman, Turns

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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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Radio astronomers study radio waves from space using sensitive antennas and receivers, which give them precise information about what an astronomical object is and where it is in our night sky. And just like the signals that we send and receive here on Earth, we can convert these transmissions into sound using simple analog techniques.

Honor Harger

Simple, Night, Space

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To describe the animate life of particular things is simply the most precise and parsimonious way to articulate the things as we spontaneously experience them, prior to all our conceptualizations and definitions.

David Abram

Experience, Definitions, Way

David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.56, Vintage

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To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

James Dickey

Reckless

James Dickey (1984). “Sorties”, p.69, LSU Press

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Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all.

Muhammad Yunus

Water, Needs, Definitions

Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty”, p.32, PublicAffairs

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