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• Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than what we have seen so far from journalists, academ- ics, and particularly former government officials.

  Andrei Shleifer

  Book, Government, Analysis

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• For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Bottles, Milk, Poet

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.504, Simon and Schuster

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• Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.

  Perry Anderson

  Simple, Ideas, Quality

  Perry Anderson (2005). “Spectrum”, p.76, Verso

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• I think the way the greens are, you need to be very accurate with your irons. Whether there's wind or not, the most important thing out here is being able to control the distance of your irons and the direction. I've done that pretty well the last couple of days.

  Luke Donald

  Couple, Distance, Thinking

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• Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

  Terry Pratchett

  Lying, Book, Reality

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.214, Random House

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• Once or twice I`ve been described as a light comedian. I consider this the most accurate description of my abilities I`ve ever seen.

  Bing Crosby

  Light, Comedian, Description

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do you think the Bible is accurate? I mean, do you think it's real?" " I think Pastor Calvin is hot. In a fortysomething way. That pretty much sums up my religious conviction

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Religious, Real, Mean

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• This gospel has often been spoken of as a way of life. This however is not quite accurate. Consisting as it does of the principles and ordinances necessary to man's exaltation it is not just a way of life, it is the one and only way of life by which men may accomplish the full purpose of their mortality.

  Marion G. Romney

  Men, Exaltation, Principles

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• Disinformation, in order to be effective, must be 90% accurate.

  Peter Dale Scott

  Order

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• Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Fascination, Details, Holiness

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “I Have Landed”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these power structures tend to be taken over by people who are corruptible. I don't think that the old saw about 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' is accurate: I think power attracts the corruptible.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Taken, Thinking

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• Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry whether it is right. It is sufficient that another is growing great in his own eyes at our expense, and assumes authority over us without our permission; for many would contentedly suffer the consequences of their own mistakes, rather than the insolence of him who triumphs as their deliverer.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mistake, Eye, Vanity

  Samuel Johnson (1824). “The works of Samuel Johnson”, p.99

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• You surely can't be trying to blame us for Erak's habit of charging ashore waving an axe and grabbing everything that isn't nailed down? No offence, Svengal." Svengal shrugged. "None taken. It's a pretty accurate description of Erak on a raid, as a matter of fact.

  John Flanagan

  Taken, Trying, Matter

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• The United States will continue its efforts to improve our understanding of climate change - to seek hard data, accurate models, and new ways to improve the science - and determine how best to meet these tremendous challenges.

  George H. W. Bush

  Data, Effort, Understanding

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• So I'm an ace?' Will grinned. 'I'm flattered Halt, flattered. I had no idea you regarded me so highly.' Halt gave him a long-suffering look. 'I might have been more accurate to say a joker.' Whatever you say.

  John Flanagan

  Ideas, Long, Suffering

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• How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships.

  Tom Robbins

  Memorable, Personality, Understanding

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.23, Bantam

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• When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Information, Opinion, Weak

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.144, Random House

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• If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks.

  Steven Pinker

  Cartoon, Would Be, Ifs

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• I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.

  Charlaine Harris

  Life, Years, Mind

  Charlaine Harris (2012). “Charlaine Harris: The Lily Bard Mysteries”, p.88, Penguin

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• Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc.

  Terry Pratchett

  Worst Enemy, Cities, Dying

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor.

  Deanna Raybourn

  Husband, Body, Should

  Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent in the Grave”, p.10, MIRA

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• Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Hurt, Men, Mad

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. “The Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.”, Library of Alexandria

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• All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.

  Hiroyuki Nishimura

  Information, Argument, Treated

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• A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

  Wendell Berry

  Food, World, Consciousness

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.326, Counterpoint

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• In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'.

  Sam Ewing

  Marriage, Phrases, Debt

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