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• Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

  Gil Kane

  Quality

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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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• No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hero, Race, Blood

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• The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Health, Buddhism

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• The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.

  Lea Thompson

  Exciting, Sitcom, Whole

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2012.

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• We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

  Lois Lowry

  Kids, Want, Way

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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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• Dance must have a precision without fault.

  Arielle Dombasle

  Faults

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• The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mistake, Eye, Imagination

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• I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker

  Adolf Hitler

  Sleep, Historical, Walkers

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• Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.

  Gary Lutz

  Grace, Daze, Nervous

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• But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to their language that precision and accuracy which they have employed in their observations: In correcting their language they reason better.

  Etienne Bonnot de Condillac

  Progress, Attention, Philosopher

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• If you are reading a large newspaper, all spread out on the table, your cat will come and sit on the very paragraph you are reading, the talented cat draping her tail with miraculous precision over the very line you're not finished with.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Reading, Cat, Tails

  Leonore Fleischer (1982). “The Cat's Pajamas”, Harpercollins

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• Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

  Damian Lewis

  Quiet People, Fun, Emotional

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• There's a subtleness to camera work. You can really create intimate moments on camera and sometimes that requires a little more precision from an actor, because you have to pull people in as opposed to throwing it to them.

  Corey Reynolds

  Intimate Moments, People, Cameras

  "TV Gig Pulls Corey Reynolds Away from Broadway". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. June 9, 2006.

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• Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

  Aristotle

  Law, Justice, Principles

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2035, Princeton University Press

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• I follow my course with the precision and security of a sleepwalker.

  Adolf Hitler

  Courses, Security

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• But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

  Carl Sagan

  Details Of Life, Atheism, Poor Planning

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• Projections are put together by people who have an interest in a particular outcome, have a subconscious bias, and its apparent precision makes it fallacious. They remind me of Mark Twain's saying, 'A mine is a hole in the ground owned by a liar.' Projections in America are often a lie, although not an intentional one, but the worst kind because the forecaster often believes them himself.

  Charlie Munger

  Liars, Lying, Believe

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• The development of mathematics towards greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can prove any theorem using nothing but a few mechanical rules.

  Kurt Gödel

  Development, Well Known, Mathematics

  Kurt Gödel, S. Feferman (1986). “Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume I: Publications 1929-1936”, p.145, Oxford University Press

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• A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Men, Dresses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.76, 谷月社

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• No skill, no special apti­tude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it was of one sex rather than the other. No child would be relentlessly shaped to one pattern of behavior, but instead there should be many patterns, in a world that had learned to allow to each individual the pattern which was most congenial to his gifts.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Children, Thinking

  "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, 1935.

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• I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.

  Felix Dennis

  Men, Magazines, Alive

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• There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization.

  Bruno Schulz

  Integrity, Reality, Trying

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• Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental reality of that thing.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Reality, Vision, Fundamentals

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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