#precisely

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#happens #happier #know #lost #matter

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#conditions #conflict #contrary #define #did

This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques. ↗

— Otto Schily

#active role #extremism #fanaticism #feeds #hate

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#excellent #good #lost #precisely #translation

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#back #comic #enjoyed #far #how

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#government #inevitably #invariably #irony #like

I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#course #depicting #get #ground #i

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention. ↗

— Tom Harkin

#america #because #care #crisis #health care

Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#asked #before #give #learn #people

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#consequences #consists #fact #having #importance