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• Precision medicine is one way to attack cancer and it's proven to be very effective but, remember that like HIV/AIDS, you're going to need combination therapies.

  Laurie Glimcher

  Cancer, Medicine, Hiv

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• Precision medicine is diving into the DNA with a knowledge that everybody's tumor has a unique genetic profile and you want to be able to identify that specific piece of DNA that has become mutated and that is driving cancer growth.

  Laurie Glimcher

  Cancer, Unique, Dna

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.

  Dana Reinhardt

  Missing, Language, Annoying

  Dana Reinhardt (2009). “How to Build a House”, p.173, Wendy Lamb Books

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• Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring.

  Linn Ullmann

  Symbolism, Order, Perspective

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• Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.

  Christian Kane

  Football, Strong, Wrestling

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• In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds.

  Erich Hartmann

  Flying, Use, Fancy

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• One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

  Anton Chekhov

  Technology, Two, People

  "Lights". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1888.

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• In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a tool with his hands and producing an object that shows at every stage the direction of his will and the impression of his personality; and a machine which is producing, without the intervention of a particular man, objects of a uniformity and precision that show no individual variation and have no personal charm. The problem is to decide whether the objects of machine production can possess the essential qualities of art.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Real, Men

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• Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

  Stan Kelly-Bootle

  Astrology, Numerology, Study

  Stan Kelly-Bootle (1995). “The Computer Contradictionary”, p.44, MIT Press

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• If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

  Helen Vendler

  Pages, Way, Certain

  "Helen Vendler: Poetry Critic and Fan of Art History". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. November 17, 2012.

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• Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.

  G. Bruce Boyer

  Insecure, Style, Dresses

  G. Bruce Boyer (2015). “True Style: The History and Principles of Classic Menswear”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.

  Lois Lowry

  Divorce, Racism, Attention

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• We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is perhaps for this reason that anthropologists have not shown much interest in these models, unlike economists, for example, for whom the use of mathematics poses no problem. However, one could reach the same conclusions by using just a bit of common sense.

  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

  Common Sense, Example, Use

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• I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition.

  Elliott Gould

  Children, Dancer, Repetition

  "Elliott Gould on throwing his lunch at Robert Altman and Saturday Night Live's Five-Timers Club". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 26, 2013.

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• Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by them; but what he grasps he grasps with infallible precision, namely the expression that goes with the words, the total, spontaneous, involuntary expressiveness which can never be simulated or faked, as words alone can, too easily.

  Oliver Sacks

  Lying, Expression, Feelings

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• Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.

  Carl Sagan

  Eye, Errors, Zest

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• There is a calm for you where men and women
  Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.

  Allen Tate

  Moving, Men, Feet

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.3, Macmillan

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• Women on trains
  have a life
  that is exactly livable
  the precision of days flashing past

  Audre Lorde

  Travel, Past, Train

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.389, W. W. Norton & Company

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• [Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [...] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country [...] There's purity to that music and I think that appeals to a lot of punk rock people - the precision, the purity, and the directness of Country Music.

  John C. Reilly

  Country, Thinking, Rocks

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• The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the visual detail and in the wit and energy of Michael Giacchino's score, but the quality control that has been exercised over this project also has a curiously undermining effect. The movie eagerly sells itself as semitrashy, almost-campy fun, but it is so lavish and fussy that you can't help thinking that it wants to be taken seriously, and therefore you laugh at, rather than with, its mock sublimity.

  A. O. Scott

  Fun, Taken, Thinking

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• Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. Im not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Architecture, Aging, Authenticity

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• Kim Chinquee writes with remarkable heart and grace. Her wise capsulizings of love's devastations and of life's roil and disappointments come at you with a sorrowing precision that comforts even as it haunts.

  Gary Lutz

  Wise, Disappointment, Heart

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• We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  School, Hard Work, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.385, Modern Library

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• There's also a lot of punch you get from doing an extreme closeup and have it just be that image with nothing around it. There's a clarity and precision and impact there that you sometimes lose if you put everything else in that background.

  Jim Lee

  Impact, Clarity, Sometimes

  Source: www.ign.com

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• To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.

  Hector Berlioz

  Vehemence, Melancholy, Morbid

  Hector Berlioz (1935). “Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865: comprising his travels in Germany, Italy, Russia, and England”

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