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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#act #borrow #borrowing #examine #him

The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.


Werner Heisenberg


#both #cases #difficulty #experiment #form

These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know.


John Hume


#another #because #child #everybody #i

People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.


Ashley Judd


#characters #environment #hurt #i #i think

The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.


Irving R. Kaufman


#decisions #forced #his #inaccurate #judge

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.


Oscar Wilde


#accurate #age #calculating #ever #her

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.


Hesketh Pearson


#fact #in fact #learned #man #misquotation

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.


Herbert Bayard Swope


#duty #fair #first #follows #newspaper

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.


Johnny Rotton


#describe #emotions #ever #far #i

A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to see if there was still any steam underneath.


Timothy Zahn


#any #first #fork #i #into






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