#precise

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#capable #difference #distinction #explanation #limit

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end. ↗

— Truman Capote

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I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

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It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#cut #happy #how #long #matter

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#back #cast #century #communist #communist party

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

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The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#awaken #capacities #difficulties #existence #i

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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