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Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Albert Einstein

Nature, Order, Beyond

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
Albert Camus

Far, Accept, Himself

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Frederick Douglass

Find, Wrong, Injustice

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
Bill Cosby

Keep, Kids, Though

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
Marcus Garvey

Woman, Writing, Reading

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway

Death, Fear, Wealth

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
Frank Zappa

Design, Emotional, Give

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon

Writing, Reading, Ready

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Success, Best, Advice

I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!
Miley Cyrus

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
Bertrand Russell

Find, Wanted, Opposite

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Samuel Butler

Life, Art, Science

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
Thomas Carlyle

Government, Wisdom, Symbol

I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.
Ellen DeGeneres

Truth, Judge, Same

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
Ralph Steadman

Hate, Revenge, Evil

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
Samuel Butler

Point, Temper, Dispute

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke

Nature, Greatness

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Stephen Leacock

Trust, Men, Another

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali

Good, Art, Hungry

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.
Harvey Fierstein

Life, Love, Same

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
Pliny the Elder

Live, Darkness, Reach

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
Earl Nightingale

Wish, Service, Earn

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Walter Scott

Power, Best, Greatest

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Paul Dirac

Science, Poetry, Before

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
Andre Maurois

Life, Great, Negative

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
George Santayana

End, Reality, Dignity

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
Joseph Addison

Great, Men, Learning

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
Jean de la Bruyere

Truth, Often, Contrary

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
George Sand

Life, Faith, Words

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
Heraclitus

Eyes, Ears, Witnesses

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