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• The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test.

  Kevin Warsh

  Giving, Tests, Financial

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• World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.

  Reid Hoffman

  Needs, World, Theory

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• ... the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged here and there, then still don't fell accurate.

  Mark Doty

  Here And There, Intricacy, Feels

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• My favorite piece of tech gear is my SRM power meter. It's the most accurate power meter on the market.

  Timothy O'Donnell

  Gears, Pieces, My Favorite

  "Triathlon Gear". Interview with Chris Aung-Thwin, www.askmen.com.

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• Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Stories, Deep Within, Neat

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• There is a certain point of unity within the self, and between the self and its world, certain complicity and magnetic mating, a certain harmony, that conscious mind and will cannot direct. Perhaps analysis and the separate mastery of each element are required before the instincts are ready to assume command, but only at first. Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.

  Michael Novak

  Reality, Discovery, Self

  Michael Novak (1993). “The Joy of Sports: End Zones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the American Spirit”, p.172, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Different, Serious

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.117, Princeton University Press

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• I don't want any description of me to be accurate; I want it to be flattering. I don't think people who have to sing for their supper ever like to be described truthfully - not in print anyway. We need to sell tickets, so we need good reviews.

  Orson Welles

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.127, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Political, Economics

  Noam Chomsky, Carlos Peregrín Otero (2003). “Chomsky on Democracy and Education”, p.146, Psychology Press

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• The gossip will carry to Attolian spies, who will report to Relius, Attolia's master of spies, and he will carry the news to her." "Her secretary of the archives," murmured the magus. "Hmm?" asked the queen. "Secretary of the archives, Relius. Master of spies is so-" "Accurate?" "Overtly direct," said the magus. Eddis laughed.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Queens, Gossip, Spy

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• The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.

  Andrew Vachss

  Flying, Slugs, Bullets

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• Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy.

  Iris Murdoch

  Lying, People, Feelings

  "Fictional character: Iris Murdoch". "Iris", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels. If you stand back far enough it looks good. Come any closer and the glaring approximations overtake all semblance of the original. Justice should be viewable under the microscope, not from a telescope. And for that it needs to be based not on law but on truth.

  Vera Nazarian

  Color, Law, Justice

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• To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of others is being adjusted, they, who are not made of mere brute matter, are also changing; we think we have managed to see them more clearly, but they shift; and when we believe we have them fully in focus, it is merely our older images of them that we have clarified, but which are themselves already out of date.

  Marcel Proust

  Believe, Thinking, Focus

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• I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.

  Bill Nye

  Assessment, Law, Three

  YouTube Chanel "Answers in Genesis"/"Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham - HD (Official)", www.youtube.com. February 4, 2014.

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• The term comics long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. Sequential Art is a more accurate description of the form. I first suggested it because I believed something needed to be done to correct the feeling of inferiority by artists and writers in this field.

  Will Eisner

  Art, Long Ago, Feelings

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• Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is intuitive; it's holistic, it's contextual, it's relational. It doesn't have a win-lose orientation. It taps into the cosmic computer - the field of pure potentiality, pure knowledge, and infinite organizing power - and takes everything into account. At times it may not even seem rational, but the heart has a computing ability that is far more accurate and far more precise than anything within the limits of rational thought.

  Deepak Chopra

  Heart, Winning, Thinking

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.33, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.

  Newt Gingrich

  What If, Together, Pieces

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. May 15, 2011.

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• That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior....I think Obama gets up every morning with a worldview that is fundamentally wrong about reality...If you look at the continuous denial of reality, there has got to be a point where someone stands up and says that this is just factually insane.

  Newt Gingrich

  Morning, Reality, Thinking

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• That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.

  Sarah Silverman

  Home, Description, Feels

  Sarah Silverman (2010). “The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.

  Jose Saramago

  Doors, Challenges, Void

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• swore. “Barabas said you might say that. I’m supposed to tell you this.” Ascanio cleared his throat and produced a remarkably accurate impression of Barabas’s tenor. “Courage, Your Majesty.” “I will kill him.” “The Beast Lord or Barabas?” “Both.

  Ilona Andrews

  Might, Majesty, Beast

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.124, Penguin

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• Mistakes are the byproduct of action - and thus an accurate gauge of effort.

  Terry Rossio

  Mistake, Effort, Gauges

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• If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard to accept. I believe it's deadly accurate. But again, we can solve it.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Civilization, Sound

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• By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every speaker of a language has mastered and internalized a generative grammar that expresses his knowledge of his language. This is not to say that he is aware of the rules of the grammar or even that he can become aware of them, or that his statements about his intuitive knowledge of the language are necessarily accurate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Way, Language

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