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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

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What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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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

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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

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The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. ↗

— Tom Robbins

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I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

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