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One should never know too precisely whom one has married.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

Deepak Chopra

Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.

Sri Chinmoy

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

J. K. Rowling

Nothing seems to break the Clinton-Giuliani deadlock. Almost everyone has heard of the mayor's marital situation, but the poll numbers show precisely the same standoff we found before all the stories and pictures.

Maurice Carroll

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

Johannes Kepler

Ice dance may look simple, but there's nothing simple about it. That's especially true in the compulsories, where everyone does the same thing. Your pattern and foot movements are both prescribed, and you have to execute them precisely.

Don Bradner

I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day-to-day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.

Alain De Botton

Because there is no doubt that he cannot and will not suffer pain if unconscious, the remedy crafted by the district court, though hardly necessary as a constitutional matter, provides Morales with precisely the form of assurance he demanded.

Dane Gillette

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Tom Robbins

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

John Maynard Keynes

People will be harder on her, precisely because she is a woman. She herself has recognized that she will have to work double to demonstrate that she is capable of ruling the country.

Patricio Navia

Technical analysis works precisely because people look at it. And if people care, I care.

John Bollinger

The ability to fly directly to (Reagan National) is coveted precisely because you have to apply for it.

Fred Piccolo

That's precisely why, when you read any disaster kit, it says you should have enough supplies for 72 hours.

Frances Marine

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

Konrad Adenauer

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

We will no longer let them [Danish organizations] in, precisely for that reason.

Ramzan Kadyrov

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.

Leslie Fiedler

I...have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

Around the ruck they certainly defend differently, but having watched just that one trial, it's hard to say precisely what they're aiming at.

Laurie Fisher

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

Eric Hoffer

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There are just things that are going to happen that are driven by regional, national and global events, market forces, economic trends that none of us can know today precisely what is going to happen even 10 years from now. Never mind 30 years from now.

Donald Fraser

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Henry Kissinger

I've said no, ... It's precisely because it is dangerous that we should go.

Thabo Mbeki

The only way, in turn, for us to assert our own humanity is to stand up to it, and that is precisely what I'm afraid we are not doing now.

Nicholas Kristof

It's better not to nail it down too precisely. Over the next day or so we'll have a better idea.

Colin Mcadie

It was the first play we were ever involved in together, ... and, because it was concerned with the condition of French convicts, we performed it - we began to perform it - in front of a French prison. It lasted for precisely four minutes because the police arrived and closed it down.

Helene Cixous

I think if you ask around, this is precisely what we train for. This was expected and mentally our soldiers are up for this.

Maj. Scott Lundy

His quarterbacks could pick apart a defense because he taught them to throw precisely.

Fred Wilson

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Dennis Prager

The robot can reach into the area very precisely and avoid those nerves.

William Peine

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Susan Sontag

We were able to show precisely through the use of the UAV that we had been very careful in targeting to only hit the area where here was insurgency activity and left the bulk of the mosque completely intact.

Barbara Fast

That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. Japan must have its own resources.

Atsuko Abe

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Thomas Carlyle

This kind of give-and-take lies at the heart of scientific progress and is precisely why scientific analyses are made available in the open literature.

Bruce Alberts

Although it's too early to know precisely, the fact it is contained -- it was in the herd in which it was born -- is going to greatly facilitate the investigation.

Dennis Laycraft

A lot of talk at the time was, 'Well, there goes the wooden city. Now we can build something grander and more permanent, ... But it is precisely the old wooden city of New Orleans that people love.

Lawrence Vale

On a goal like that, they should take a look at it even more precisely. If they hadn't got that goal it would have been a whole different game.

Marian Gaborik

Our view is that the Elian Gonzalez event may help us precisely to improve relations.

Ricardo Alarcon

My darling girl, Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. All the same, or precisely for this reason, it is happiness and comfort for us men to have a precious sweetheart -- and I have the most precious, the dearest and best of all!

Martin Bormann

It's precisely the opposite of the purpose of the land.

Jeff Ruch

The conductor said that I won precisely because I made this mistake and managed to continue playing.

Andre Watts

Angela Merkel believes fiercely that Germany needs a freer, more individualistic society, and more market-oriented economy, precisely because she grew up in the very opposite -- in the communist east.

Gerd Langguth

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

I don't think it's particularly close under copyright law. You're not allowed to copy works for commercial purposes without a license, and that's precisely what they're doing.

Paul Aiken

No one has the right to deny any people the possibility of the peaceful use of nuclear energy. What the world should combat precisely is the monopoly that some have over arms of mass destruction _ nuclear ones in particular.

Ricardo Alarcon

To me, this kind of malfeasance or nonfeasance is precisely what the public cannot tolerate.

Jackie Speier

We believe that's precisely what's happening here.

Margery Bronster

It is precisely this kind of anti-Christian religious litmus test that many Americans find deeply offensive. Our nation is founded on Judeo-Christian principles which have made it one of the freest nations in the world.

Wendy Wright

These kinds of tactics are precisely the reason why people have lost faith in politics. That's unfortunate. I've done nothing wrong.

Angie Paccione

Mr. Mayor, precisely because city anti-hunger programs are so inadequate, large numbers of New Yorkers, including an appalling number of children, do go hungry.

Joel Berg

Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.

Ivo Andric

The knowledge of our customers makes us competitive, because we try to know precisely the quality he wants, the market he's looking at.

Arnault Cassanet

They're under investigation for precisely the issues we raised about them.

Bill Ackman

We are putting money into surveillance and communication precisely where we think a country can't deal with it.

Kent Hill

Nineteen years is probably the longest I've heard of. But we don't hear about everything. There's nobody that tracks this stuff precisely.

Steve Klein

We're adamantly fighting any attempt to transfer pollution from North to South, from rich to poor. These ships are moving precisely because the environmental and labor costs in developing countries are much less than they are in the developed countries.

Jim Puckett

The Iranians can ramp this up or back as they're pressed. And thus far, they have shown every inclination to do precisely that.

Ian Bremmer

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

John Naisbitt

Foreign central banks are doing precisely the same thing -- and in much larger magnitudes than our own Federal Reserve. Therefore we should be focusing a lot more on the influence that they are having on our markets and our economy.

John Mueller

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

Tom Harkin

It has been precisely 55 years since one single atomic bomb created a hell on Earth.

Tadatoshi Akiba

The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice.

Henry Hazlitt

It's something he learned as a bodybuilder. You get up on stage and twist and turn your body to always look good and hide your flaws. And that is precisely what he's done all of his life.

Laurence Leamer

This is precisely the kind of insensitive, hurtful and ignorant rhetoric that Americans have grown tired of.

Bobby Rush

But every stone was catalogued, measured, precisely described, and numbered. We had to understand where the unusable ones belonged in order to cut new sandstone to fit exactly with the old.

Ulrich R. Schoenfeld

I knew it was special enough to leave everything I had in Kentucky. Not only would I do it again, I would do it precisely the same way. I already had this new music in my blood. The whole process of doing that was innate leap into some other music form. I didn't have a choice.

Tony Rice

If you cry 'Forward!' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a mond and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?

Anton Chekhov

Gaining access to the wreckage will be important in unraveling precisely what happened.

Jim Lay

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

Arthur Cohn

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

Ingmar Bergman

If you look at what's performing today in Germany, it's DaimlerChrysler as it looks like they are restructuring at a faster pace than the market expected, and this is precisely what the story is about for markets.

Patrik Schowitz

They utilized this two-week period of time to do precisely what I and others said that they would do -- to try to create fear in this country and to try to bring pressure on members on Congress.

Rosa Delauro

Imaging allows us to deliver the medicine precisely into the affected, inflamed joint. The use of image guidance provides a more accurate treatment, ensuring the patient receives the maximum benefit -- pain reduction and joint mobility.

Kevin Baskin

This is precisely the agreement that most of these guys when they were out of office said was tantamount to capitulation.

Kurt Campbell

This is exciting news. Our focus on improving student achievement is paying off. Our goal is to move students consistently upward in performance, and that is precisely what we are achieving.

Superintendent Manuel Rivera

(That) may offer further indications as to the threat posed by inflation and precisely when we might see the FOMC tighten interest rates further.

Matthew Buckland

Would he have shut down the basketball team if precisely the same allegation was made by precisely the same person. I don't think they would have.

Joe Baden

In 1944, we were in the middle of a world war, and Egypt stood at the crossroads in the middle of the Mediterranean. It was not, perhaps, precisely the right moment in diplomatic history to go and try to make a claim on a coin.

David Redden

I find it quite appalling that the ACLU is actively supporting this. I think this is precisely the kind of legislation we should be opposing, not supporting.

Wendy Kaminer

I did not tell him precisely and I did not give him the target.

Ahmed Ressam

It is precisely because nothing has happened on this issue that we were created.

Elizabeth Sullivan

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

Eldridge Cleaver

The power of the CPC comes precisely from its steadfast push of the two major goals.

Zheng Bijian