#precisely

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#politics #precisely #small #stakes #university

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#harmony #his #masterly #only #precisely

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying. ↗

— Ingmar Bergman

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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#civilization #constitute #enough #exists #masses

Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning. ↗

— John W. Dawson

#areas #identical #languages #meaning #multitudes

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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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 Baldwin

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The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

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