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Accuracy Quotes

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You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.
Christopher Langan

Authors on Accuracy Quotes: Ralph Waldo Emerson Pam Houston Lionel Shriver Anna Brownell Jameson Francis Bacon Douglas MacArthur Samuel Johnson Peter Mulvey Maya Lin Arnold Schwarzenegger Georg C. Lichtenberg Christopher Langan Theodore Roethke Paul Dickson Hugh Blair Arthur Nielsen Niels Bohr Bobby Knight Saul Bellow Elizabeth Gilbert Hugh Kingsmill Anne Enright Henry Martyn Alex Winter Thomas R. Marshall Adrian Rogers Walther Nernst Julie Delpy Allen Lacy Larry Sanger Dean Williams
2.
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
Niels Bohr

3.
May my silences become more accurate.
Theodore Roethke

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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Saul Bellow

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Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
Douglas MacArthur

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Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God.
Adrian Rogers

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Accuracy is essential to beauty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.
Arthur Nielsen

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Quality is determined by accuracy and completeness.
Larry Sanger

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How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?
Henry Martyn

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I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type.
Thomas R. Marshall

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Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
Anna Brownell Jameson

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In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
Samuel Johnson

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The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.
Hugh Kingsmill

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One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.
Walther Nernst

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Try to be accurate about stuff.
Anne Enright

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Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.
Hugh Blair

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Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.
Dean Williams

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If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?
Maya Lin

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Some films do portray women in their 40s well, and some other films don't. Some films are written by women, so maybe there's a little more accuracy there.
Julie Delpy

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Feel is a lot more important than accuracy.
Peter Mulvey

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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Worse, the deadly accuracy of filial faultfinding is facilitated by access, by trust, by willing disclosure, and so constitutes a double betrayal.
Lionel Shriver

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You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.
Francis Bacon

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Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.
Paul Dickson

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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
Bobby Knight

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Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.
Elizabeth Gilbert

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One man's accuracy is another man's bullshit.
Alex Winter

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Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes.
Allen Lacy

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For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy.
Pam Houston