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Letter "E" » exactness
«The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.»
«Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.»
«Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.»
«It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision to which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.»
Author: Aristotle
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Philosopher,
Physician,
Scientist)
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Keywords:
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The Mark,
The Mark of,
to that degree
«It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.»
Author: Aristotle
(
Philosopher,
Physician,
Scientist)
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About:
Mind
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Keywords:
admits,
approximation,
degree,
educated,
exactness,
mark,
precision,
satisfied,
subject,
The Mark,
The Mark of
«The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.»
Author: Edmund Burke
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Philosopher,
Statesman)
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Keywords:
calculations,
employ,
exactness,
financier,
financiers,
foundations,
impose,
instance,
obliges,
proceedings,
revenue,
solidity
«A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.»