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• I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

  Samuel Butler

  Hate, Lying, Mind

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 19

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• Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

  Tryon Edwards

  Brother, Truth, Honesty

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.37, Ravenio Books

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• On course doesn't mean perfect. On course means that even when things don't go perfectly - you are still going in the right direction.

  Charles Garfield

  Mean, Perfect, Strive

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• Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Distraction

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.61, A&C Black

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• History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

  Nancy Pickard

  Lying, History, Events

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• Feel is a lot more important than accuracy.

  Peter Mulvey

  Inspirational, Important, Feels

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• Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

  Nate Silver

  Two, Different, Way

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• One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

  Voltaire

  Interesting, Should, Aim

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• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Florence Scovel Shinn, Ruth L. Miller (2012). “The New Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• May my silences become more accurate.

  Theodore Roethke

  Silence, May, Accurate

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.95, Copper Canyon Press

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• If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

  Talcott Parsons

  Facts, Needs, Alternatives

  Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”

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• Whoever said that love is blind was dead wrong. Love is the only thing on this earth that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

  Martha Beck

  Love, Blind, Said

  "Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic".

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• One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.

  Walther Nernst

  Science, Should, Cents

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• The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

  Herbert Bayard Swope

  Firsts, Newspapers, Duty

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• No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

  Napoleon Hill

  Umpires, Judging, Enemy

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.212, Penguin

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• Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Science, People, Scare

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• What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Originality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.161

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• Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

  David Hume

  Sentimental, Vain, Cases

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Insanity, Mind

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.42, Reprint Services Corporation

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• All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

  Alan Rickman

  Listening, Actors, Want

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• One man's accuracy is another man's bullshit.

  Alex Winter

  Men, Bullshit, One Man

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• From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

  Tom Stoppard

  Reality, Principles, Facts

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• In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Degrees, Sentences

  'The Bravery of the English Common Soldier' in 'The British Magazine' January 1760 (Yale ed., vol. 10, p. 281)

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• It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the appreciation of it exceed the pleasure of being able to tell others what to do. There is but one tick on the accuracy scale between 'optimism' and 'denial.'

  Terry Rossio

  Appreciation, Men, Optimism

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• Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Perfect, Tools

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The sea-stories”, p.161

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