#accuracy

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. ↗

— David Hume

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Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy. ↗

— Martha Beck

#blind #dead #each #lets #love

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible. ↗

— Yuan T. Lee

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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. ↗

— Charles Revson

#always #lady #newspaper #print #virtue

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things. ↗

— Nate Silver

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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#always #lady #newspaper #print #virtue

Connubial Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood. ↗

— Stephen Dunn

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