Exact Quotes

We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who we were a moment ago, if our concepts were divided among many and were not to be encountered somewhere together in their most exact combination.
Moses Mendelssohn

Person, Together, Remember

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
Gabriel Marcel

Science, Object, Adequate

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.
Robyn

Music, True, Show

I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.
Mortimer Zuckerman

Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.
Paulina Porizkova

Age, Beautiful, True

I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.
Alfred Rosenberg

Time, Feeling, Socialism

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Science, Wrong, Acting

On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.
Dean Ween

Morning, Fishing, Healthy

When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I'm getting warmer, and that I'm more mystified by human interactions.
Jon Brion

True, Human, Find

Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.
Walter Rudolf Hess

Deep, Brain, Through

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

War, Find, Training

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
Bernard De Voto

Reason, Point, Act

We've also seen another future we could choose. First of all, we'd have the right to choose. It's an America in which no one can charge us more than men for the exact same health insurance; in which no one can deny us affordable access to the cancer screenings that could save our lives; in which we decide when to start our families.
Sandra Fluke

Health, Men, Future

You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.
Stephen Wolfram

Good, Mean, Last

We are not a monolithic group of individuals, not every single person believes the exact same thing.
Joseph Crowley

Single, Person, Same

When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school.
Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Cool, School, Same

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
John Tukey

Good, Problem, Worth

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin Pierce Adams

Age, Young, Old

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.
Rod Carew

Art, Science, Hitting

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.
Maurice Wilkins

Life, Able, Growth

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.
Nelson Eddy

Truth, Society, Tell

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.
Peter Frederick Strawson

Give, Language, Rules

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