#precisely

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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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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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

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. ↗

— George Orwell

#does #exists #felt #forces #him

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#beings #feel #half #human #human beings

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? ↗

— Dennis Prager

#beauty #cannot #decency #define #defined

The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#faith #precisely #resisted

I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#appreciate #ask #because #being #celebrity

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#dead #fruit #get #greatest #likely

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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