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Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
Women are often forced to maintain good relations with men who abuse them precisely because those men have power.
I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
I forgive 'Face in the Crowd' its uneven tone because it's precisely what makes it feel unlike other Kazan movies.
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
Restricting the religious impulses of Americans is precisely like killing free enterprise with too many regulations.
Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.
Contrary to popular belief, the outskirts are not where the world ends - they are precisely where it begins to unfurl.
I realized that a great deal of life is exactly and precisely about being able to feel pain: my own and other people's.
Email did precisely what I predicted, back in 1978, it took over the postal mail process and system of writing letters.
Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.
We are going to seek to improve the lives of our people on an ongoing basis, and since 1994, we have done precisely that.
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
I believe that our country is a richer, more vibrant society precisely because it is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic society.
Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.
It is, in fact, precisely to defend the right to free speech that countless patriots have given the last full measure of devotion.
It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.
Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.
There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
The grim irony of investing is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for.
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.
It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.
Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.
On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.
I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.
I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with everyone.
Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.