“ Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable. ”
- Rene Daumal- Copy
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“ Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. ”
- Arthur Schnitzler- Copy
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“ If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct? ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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“ A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision. ”
- Brian Greene- Copy
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“ It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. ”
- Francois de Salignac Fenelon- Copy
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“ The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. ”
- Hugh Blair- Copy
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“ Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson- Copy
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“ If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own. ”
- Richard Cecil- Copy
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“ Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
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“ One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. ”
- Maria Montessori- Copy
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“ The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. ”
- Franklin P. Jones- Copy
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“ I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me. ”
- Lord Nelson- Copy
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“ Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
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“ The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. ”
- James Madison- Copy
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“ The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair. ”
- Herbert Bayard Swope- Copy
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“ Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. ”
- Elwyn Brooks White- Copy
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“ I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say. ”
- Friedrich Wasiman- Copy
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