#precisely

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

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#cooperation #flourishing #fully #groups #human

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

#concerned #constitute #education #government #group

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#distance #elimination #itself #people #precisely

But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort. ↗

— Amos Oz

#any #anywhere #everyday #everyday people #fanaticism

Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#external #faced #fashion #fragile #isolated

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is. ↗

— James Mill

#bad #cannot #good #how #known

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. ↗

— Rebecca West

#been #call #differentiate #doormat #express

This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#attack #background #experience #future #interventions

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#capacity #develop #liberal #likely #linear