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I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.


Andrew Motion


#board #doing #go #good #i

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#hardest #just #our #precisely #pride

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


#does #exists #felt #forces #him

If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.


Camille Paglia


#become #elitist #feminism #goals #life

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


#beauty #cannot #decency #define #defined

The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.


Stephen M. Walt


#deterrent #fact #feel #kind #makes

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.


Arthur Cohn


#behind #distributor #film #means #nothing

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

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

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






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