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For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous (Precisely Quotes)
Long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one. To be all one meant to be wholly one, to be in oneness, either essentially or temporarily. That is precisely the goal of solitude, to be all one (Precisely Quotes)
Art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her ancient earth, and her men built all on the same pattern, and all animated by the same feelings (Precisely Quotes)
Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain’s alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed (Precisely Quotes)
The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will; and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion (Precisely Quotes)
The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes (Precisely Quotes)
Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client’s needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it (Precisely Quotes)
Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you’ve got, you’re more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it’s difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part (Precisely Quotes)
Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them (Precisely Quotes)
Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them (Precisely Quotes)
Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason (Precisely Quotes)
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you (Precisely Quotes)
... women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is no palliation of our wrongs to say that we are not socially ostracized, so long as we are politically ostracized as he is not (Precisely Quotes)
The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know (Precisely Quotes)
Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely (Precisely Quotes)
We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself (Precisely Quotes)
The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects, precisely because the writer is not thinking overtly about making art (Precisely Quotes)
Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor (Precisely Quotes)
A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else (Precisely Quotes)
When a situation feels dangerous to you, it’s probably more safe than you know; when a situation feels safe, that is precisely when you should feel on guard (Precisely Quotes)
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 (Precisely Quotes)
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner (Precisely Quotes)
Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking (Precisely Quotes)
We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid (Precisely Quotes)
We don’t know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don’t always appreciate their fragility (Precisely Quotes)
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain (Precisely Quotes)
Volume depends precisely on the writer’s having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone (Precisely Quotes)
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 (Precisely Quotes)
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men (Precisely Quotes)
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others (Precisely Quotes)