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  Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Sad, Pain

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.262, Google Publishing

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• The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

  Nikola Tesla

  Thinking, Insanity, Curiosity

  "Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World". Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July 193.

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• I tell a person, "If I could go home with you tomorrow and you and I could spend the day together from maybe 8:00 to 6:00, and we went out to a restaurant at 6:30, I could tell you with a high degree of accuracy how successful you're going to be." That's huge because I'm just going to look and see, what kind of attitude do you have, how do you relate to people, how well do you prioritize your life? I'm going to see all of those things in the process of a day.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Home, Successful

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• Elk have not been seen in Switzerland for many a year. In the interests of scientific accuracy, please strike the idea of elk from your mind. If you must, think of ibexes instead, a fierce and agile type of goat with great spiraling horns. Marmots will also do in a pinch, but under no circumstances should you think of elk. No. Elk. The elkless among you may now proceed.

  Maryrose Wood

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.

  Charles Babbage

  Degrees, Lasts, Measurement

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.119, Cambridge University Press

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• Meditation increases our vitality and strengthens our intelligence. Our beauty is enhanced and our mental accuracy and health are improved. We gain the mental fortitude and patience to face life's problems. Meditate! Only through meditation can we find the treasure we're looking for.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Meditation, Vitality, Treasure

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• Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.

  Socrates

  Art, Ignorance, Simple

  Source: www.howtodrawjourney.com

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• What you pay attention to grows. If your attention is attracted to negative situations and emotions, then they will grow in your awareness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Growth, Negative, Attention

  Deepak Chopra (1995). “Creating Health: How to Wake Up the Body's Intelligence”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

  C. S. Lewis

  Facts, Favour, Insight

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

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• Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.

  Bertrand Russell

  Doe, Finals, Dogma

  Bertrand Russell (1985). “The ABC of relativity”, Signet

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• Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Information, Flow, Sanity

  Robert Anton Wilson (2012). “The Illuminati Papers”, p.66, Ronin Publishing

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• Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.

  Paul David Tripp

  Focus, Holiness, Able

  Paul David Tripp (2007). “A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You”, p.66, David C Cook

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• Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mirrors, Practice, Mind

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.

  Nathan Seiberg

  Science, Giving, Mathematics

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• On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

  Charles Babbage

  Ideas, Two, Confusion

  Passages from the Life of a Philosopher ch. 5 (1864) See Countess of Lovelace 1; Modern Proverbs 35

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• Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.

  Hugh Blair

  Thinking, Order, Time To Think

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• The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Enemy, Troops

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• Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Years, Perfect

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.29, Xist Publishing

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• You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.

  Robert Breault

  Stories, Littles, Tvs

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• There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

  Bliss Carman

  Passion, Successful, Perfection

  "The Friendship of Art".

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• Living with the exhortation "Be in the World But Not of It," stimulates the best of your analytical skills, deepens your intuition, eliminates destructive competition, develops your skills and creativity serially and painlessly, and develops concentration, efficiency, accuracy, and humor. And that's what a creative life is all about: making it a work of art.

  Michael Ray

  Art, Creativity, Creative

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.

  Daniel Webster

  Interesting, Elements, Agents

  Daniel WEBSTER (1852). “An address delivered before the New York Historical Society, Feb. 23, 1852”, p.7

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• For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy.

  Pam Houston

  Important, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Mind, Shapes, Cloudy

  Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The progress of a biographer”

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• The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it conveys the impressions of a personal vital force, that acts spontaneously, without fear or hesitation.

  George Inness

  Art, Greatness, Force

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