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The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics.


John Sununu


#deduction #great #incentive #interests #loophole

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.


Arthur Miller


#always #answers #ask #certain #face

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.


Joyce Carol Oates


#i #metaphorical #precise #say #scientists

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

It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.


Harry A. Blackmun


#case #choices #especially #heart #individuals

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.


Georg Baselitz


#always #because #despised #european #every

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.


Henry Ward Beecher


#cold #i #like #never #order

I'm too old to be farting around with stuff that isn't precisely what I want to do.


Wes Borland


#i #old #precisely #stuff #too

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.


Ben Bradlee


#because #editors #even #i #i think

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.


John Cheever


#i #kiss #like #precisely #reader






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