#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

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We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#appreciate #come #first #first impressions #fragility

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

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The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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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

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It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is. ↗

— James Mill

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