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• I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.

  Sherman Alexie

  Thinking, Selfishness, Agendas

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• There's a great expression that says, "God is a jealous lover," and it's a very accurate expression that has nothing to do with whatever you see god or nature as.

  Ben Lee

  Jealous, Expression, Lovers

  Source: collider.com

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• Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.

  Timothy Murphy

  Safety, Excellence, Records

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• I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

  Elizabeth George

  Writing, Thinking, Culture

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• I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Despair, Portraits

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• Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Temptation, Our Love, God Love

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2010). “Getting to No: How to Break a Stubborn Habit”, p.21, David C Cook

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• Where you have complexity, by nature you can have fraud and mistakes. You'll have more of that than in a company that shovels sand from a river and sells it. This will always be true of financial companies, including ones run by governments. If you want accurate numbers from financial companies, you're in the wrong world.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Mistake, Government

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• Genes which allow females to be less inhibited leave fewer copies of themselves than genes which persuade them to remain highly selective. Among males, the best strategy is exactly the opposite one. The maximum advantage goes to those males with the fewest inhibitions. "Love 'em and leave 'em" is not so much a nasty peice of male chauvinist piggery as an accurate reflection of biological reality.

  Lyall Watson

  Reflection, Reality, Opposites

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• The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

  C. S. Lewis

  Home, May, Feels

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• My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.

  John Ruskin

  Mother, Pain, Heart

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• Believers are inclined to attribute their spiritual successes to their godliness when it would be more accurate to connect them with God's faithfulness.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Would Be, God's Faithfulness

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• Seek to create change in your life not because something is 'wrong' ? but because it no longer makes an accurate statement of 'who you are'.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Statements, Who You Are

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• Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Book, Squares, Contradiction

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.

  Doug Scott

  May, Archaeology, Precise

  "Organized hunts for Civil War relics raise dust between participants, historians" by Brigid Schulte, www.sfgate.com. April 30, 2006.

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• Let the Bible be the Bible. It's not about science. It's not accurate history. It is a grab bag of religious fantasies written by many authors. Some of its myths, like the Star of Bethlehem, are very beautiful. Others are dull and ugly. Some express lofty ideals, such as the parables of Jesus. Others are morally disgusting.

  Martin Gardner

  Beautiful, Religious, Jesus

  Martin Gardner (2001). “Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience”, p.45, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and accurate, we will generally know how to get there. If the map is false and inaccurate, we generally will be lost.

  M. Scott Peck

  Reality, Views, Maps

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• We all now have to decide whether we`re comfortable using this word, weather fascism is too over the top to use in this context of our politics right now in our country or whether it helps because it`s accurate, to basically describe this as America`s Sir Oswald Mosley moment.

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Weather, America

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• I love watching little Paul Scholes, he's so in control of what he's doing and is always so accurate and pinpoint with his passing - it's just beautiful to watch.

  Bobby Charlton

  Beautiful, Littles, Watches

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• Once a price move exceeds its median historical age, any method you use to analyze the market, whether it be fundamental or technical, is likely to be far more accurate. For example, if a chartist interprets a particular pattern as a top formation, but the market is only up 10% from the last low, the odds are high that the projection will be incorrect. However, if the market is up 25% to 30%, then the same type of formation should be given a great deal more weight.

  Victor Sperandeo

  Moving, Odds, Historical

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• The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one it becomes necessary to have an accurate knowledge of the enemy's camp.

  Antoine-Henri Jomini

  Army, Order, Enemy

  Antoine-Henri Jomini (2012). “The Art of War”, p.191, Courier Corporation

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• Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

  Nate Silver

  Masquerade, Forecasts, Precise

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.39, Penguin

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• If you look at television shows, which of course are fictional so you don't expect them to be real, but they're constantly showing career women who are also successful mothers and also look gorgeous. And we fall into believing that these fictional lives are somehow accurate depictions of what our real lives should be about.

  Debora Spar

  Mother, Real, Believe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I really don't see any men sitting in the corner office plotting to keep women out. All the men I know are actively trying to promote women, to get more women involved. These men have wives they care about; they have daughters they desperately care about. So I don't think it's fair to blame men - or I don't think it's accurate to blame men anymore.

  Debora Spar

  Daughter, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I didn't choose to be gay. It would be more accurate to say that it was determined by nature.

  Jens Spahn

  Gay, Would Be, Determined

  "Out on the Right: On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic". Interview with Markus Feldenkirchen and René Pfister, www.spiegel.de. November 23, 2012.

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• Readable, faithful, accurate-what more could you ask for in a modern translation of the Bible? GOD'S WORD Translation is a great version for enhancing your love for God's Word. I recommend it.

  Ann Spangler

  Faithful, God Love, Modern

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