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“Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth.”

Sometimes Remember Presses Newspapers Magazines Making Money Expenses Fairness Accuracy Tabloids

Author:Michael Jackson

“Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces. In order to understand the laws of their energy flow, you have to love and respect them for their magnificence at the same time that you study them with the accuracy of a true scientist.”

Law Mother Order Energy Force Study Flow Scientist Gravity Pregnant Hurricanes Earthquakes Accuracy Love And Respect Elementals Magnificence Thunderstorm Birthing Energy Flow

Book:Spiritual Midwifery

Source: Spiritual Midwifery

“The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among the rubble and ruins.”

Heaven Glory Bible Evidence Historical Ruins Plenty Reminders Accuracy Glory Of God Rubble Historical Accuracy

Book:The One Year Devotions for People of Purpose

Source: The One Year Devotions for People of Purpose

“Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.”

Doe Has Beens Stage Eternal Approach Aim Finals Dogma Accuracy Approximation

Book:The ABC of relativity

Source: The ABC of relativity

“Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.”

Evidence Importance Excuse Absence Tangible Accuracy

Author:PZ Myers

“...HH Beard has perfected ...3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better..... in 1942 and onwards.”

Age Dark Tests Cancer Medical Excellent Proven Beard Dark Ages Accuracy

Author:Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

“There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.”

Passion Successful Perfection Strive Lacking Accuracy Successful Life

Author:Bliss Carman

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

Strive Gym Again And Again Just Do It Accuracy

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done.”

Way Looks Done Jobs Easier Tasks Strive Faster Accuracy Simplify Get The Job Done

Book:Effective Leadership

Source: Effective Leadership

“The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.”

Enemy Military Inspired Speed Admiration Troops Accuracy Artillery

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever.”

Source: Machiavelli : the Founder of the Political

“In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.”

Writing Degrees Sentences Accuracy

Author:Samuel Johnson

“HB-Shizzle's gonna be honest with ya, okay. To hit these bad boys, you have to have pinpoint accuracy.”

Boys Honest Okay Being Honest Wwe Accuracy Bad Boy

Author:Shawn Michaels

“Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.”

Way Truth Is Degrees Fundamentals Accuracy Magnitude Refinement Reliability

Book:Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

Source: Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

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

Universe Willing Accuracy

Author:Christopher Langan

“A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and fleshless definition. Proclaimed without tenderness, and argued without affection, the gospel from such men rather resembles a missile from a catapult than bread from a Father's hand.”

Men Hands Father Definitions Affection Theology Bread Tenderness Sweetness Accuracy Missiles Sap Digestion Stout Catapults

Book:Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book

Source: Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book

“There's a simplicity in typography that demands absolute accuracy... the only way you can experience it is by doing it, and you can't do it on a screen because a screen never gives you the entire picture.”

Way Giving Demand Absolutes Simplicity Screens Accuracy Typography

Author:Bruno Maag

“Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice. We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado? Journalists covering combat shoulder great responsibilities and face difficult choices. Sometimes they pay the ultimate price.”

“Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.”

War Horror Prejudice Missions Reports Accuracy Horror Of War

Author:Marie Colvin

“I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that most grown people who are remarkable in this respect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observe such men to retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacity of being pleased, which are also an inheritance they have preserved from their childhood.”

“Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary.”

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.”

Language Accuracy

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“Meditation increases our vitality and strengthens our intelligence. Our beauty is enhanced and our mental accuracy and health are improved. We gain the mental fortitude and patience to face life's problems. Meditate! Only through meditation can we find the treasure we're looking for.”

Problem Faces Meditation Gains Increase Treasure Vitality Fortitude Accuracy

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge, and which would give a comfortable living and sufficient leisure, in order to sacrifice to my gods [mathematical research]. For example, I hope to get the editting of the census, the birth and death lists in local districts, not as a job, but for my pleasure and satisfaction.”

“I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.”

Levels Player Approach Baseball Coaches Hitting Consistency Accuracy Systematic Mental Strength Coaches And Players

Author:Dusty Baker

“I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.”

Feels Mean Expression Fine Concepts Starting Over Accuracy

Author:Anne Carson

“We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.”

Humans Kind Mean Language Talking Struggle Starting Unconscious Drag Grammar Starting Over Accuracy Syntax

Author:Anne Carson

“Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells, but it is a way of searching out by observation, trial and classification; whether the phenomena investigated be the outcome of human activities, or of the more direct workings of nature's laws. Its methods admit of nothing untidy or slip-shod; its keynote is accuracy and its goal is truth.”

“Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.”

People Knows Science Know How Hell Scare Accurate Accuracy Polygraph

Author:Richard M. Nixon