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«Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.»
«Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.»
Author: Bernard Levin
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vagueness
«Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.»
«To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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adjective, adjectives, cluttered, Dead language, decorative, encroachment, encroachments, Greek, Greek word, Latin, lure, lured, lures, obscurity, phrases, reliable, struggling, vagueness, worn, worn out, writes
«You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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birds, certain, credulity, enjoyment, flowering tree, flowers, free, helps, ignorance, margin, margins, must not, precise, scientific, these, too much, trees, vagueness, watercraft
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