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• The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

  Richard Dawkins

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• If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.

  Jonathan Sacks

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• I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.

  Benjamin Franklin Wade

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• It doesn’t matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

  Padma Lakshmi

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• In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

  Eldridge Cleaver

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• They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

  Emily Dickinson

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• When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.

  Abram Fischer

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• Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

  Esa Pekka Salonen

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• A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he’s in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

  Bill Cosby

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• I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

  Truman Capote

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• I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

  Joseph Barbera

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• No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

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• On Wall Street he and a few others – how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that… Masters of the Universe.

  Tom Wolfe

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• Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

  Theodor W. Adorno

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• There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar.

  Robert C. Solomon

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