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• There is much debate in the scientific community as to the precise sources of global warming.

  Pat Toomey

  Community, Global Warming, Debate

  "Sestak, Toomey on opposite sides of energy debate". www.post-gazette.com. June 14, 2010.

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• A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the discussion is complicated by the fact that many eminent servants of humanity have been nominal Christians, of one or other of the sects. My allegation will be that the special services rendered to human progress by these exceptional men have not been in consequence of their adhesion to Christianity, but in spite of it, and that the specific points of advantage to human kind have been in ratio of their direct opposition to precise Biblical enactments.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Christian, Taken, Biblical

  Marsden Gibson, Charles Bradlaugh (1889*). “Has Humanity Gained from Unbelief?: Two Nights Debate Between Marsden Gibson and Charles Bradlaugh at Newcastle-on-Tyne”

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• Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Mathematics

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• On Earth Day I made a commitment to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000. And I asked for a blueprint on how to achieve this goal. In concert with all other nations, we simply must halt global warming. It is a threat to our health, to our ecology, and to our economy. I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Commitment, Years

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• Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

  Voltaire

  Law, Uniforms, Clear

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• When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science.

  Carl Sagan

  Integrity, Heart, Science

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 3: "The Harmony of the Worlds", 1990.

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• Baking is too precise for me. I cook with a pinch of this or that.

  Eva Longoria

  Baking, Cooks

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• No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to serve a momentary and transient intent, but they are, in their fundamental nature, arbitrary and exist solely as a convenient construct in the minds of man. Lives are messy, and when we set out to relate them, or parts of them, we cannot ever discern precise and objective moments when any given event began. All beginnings are arbitrary.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Men, Mind, Events

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• I'm a practicing psychiatrist and I think that I really believe in the advances of psychiatry. Our diagnoses are more precise.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Believe, Thinking, Diagnosis

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• When I got onto set with him we were given a folder of storyboards. I thought that was pretty incredible because I hadn't worked with anybody who used storyboards before so he obviously had a very precise way as to how he visualized the film from the very beginning. It was every scene, but to his credit he was incredibly collaborative and gave us many opportunities to have our own input and to change things with him, so it was a really great way of working.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Opportunity, Credit, Input

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good on guitar.

  Dan Bejar

  Guitar, Execution, Very Good

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

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• It was all the things I wanted my music to be, but yet it wasn't grand and it wasn't obtuse - it wasn't overshooting, it wasn't undershooting, it was precise. The lyrics and the way that I was able to extract and excavate emotion within me.

  Justin Vernon

  Able, Way, Emotion

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Every year, I might almost say every day, that I live, I seem to see more clearly how all the rest and gladness and power of our Christian life hinges on one thing; and that is, taking God at His word, believing that He really means exactly what He says, and accepting the very words in which He reveals His goodness and grace, without substituting others or altering the precise modes and tenses which He has seen fit to use.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Christian, Believe, Mean

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• I always like to think I build in historically accurate musical in-jokes that are so precise that like maybe there's 7 or 8 people in the world watching the show that will sit up and go, "Oh my God the music being played is the right kind of music!"

  Bear McCreary

  Thinking, People, Musical

  Source: collider.com

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• Parenthood is a school for humility. We can't choose the precise traits of our children, and that is morally important. It teaches us what William May, a theologian whom I greatly admire, calls "an openness to the unbidden."

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Humility, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

  Adolf Loos

  Badass, Bad Ass, Men

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• If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

  Anne Lamott

  Uplifting, Ocean, Blessing

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• I never cared about buying things for myself, like clothes. And then all of a sudden I realized how great it is to be very precise about the shirts that I wear and all the things that are a part of my closet. So the ritual of fashion and shopping became very personal to me.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Buying Things, Shopping

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• It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular limitations. For example, logic-based systems are very precise, but they make it hard to do reasoning with analogies. Similarly, statistical systems are useful for making predictions, but do not serve well to represent the reasons why those predictions are sometimes correct.

  Marvin Minsky

  Knowledge, Expression, Example

  "The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind". Book by Marvin Minsky, 2006.

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• With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

  Daniel Handler

  Serendipity, Library, Looks

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• When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don't think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.

  J. Cole

  Girl, Jobs, College

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• Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

  Rita Dove

  Gestures, Way, Using Words

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• Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, "How are you, you old scoundrel!" clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

  Umberto Eco

  Mean, Serious, Sometimes

  "Don't smile when you say that" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

  Vera Farmiga

  Important, Lines, Transparency

  "Vera Farmiga: 'I demand a lot from myself'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Poetry, Literature, May

  Letter to Madame Louise Colet, August 14, 1853.

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