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We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

Richard Flanagan

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

Ann Coulter

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.

Atul Gawande

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.

Rem Koolhaas

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

Jean Giraudoux

There is nothing particularly special about that location of the centre of mass. If you were to find yourself at the precise spot that is the centre of mass of the earth-moon system, the only thing unusual that you would notice is that there would be...

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts... [you] still experience the same greed, resentment, lust, and anger that everyone else experienced... the lines between sinner and saved [are] more fluid; the sins of those who come to church are not so...

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

As we parted at the Natural History Museum in London, I asked Richard Fortey how science ensures that when one person goes there's someone ready to take his place. He chuckled rather heartily at my naiveté. 'I'm afraid it's not as if we have substit...

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Of course it was painful, and there were times when, emotionally, I just wanted to chuck it all. But pain seems to be a precondition for this kind of sport. If pain weren't involved, who in the world would ever go to the trouble of taking part in spo...

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.

Crime and Punishment

The color and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive

Beauty: The Value of Values

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

Annabelle Selldorf

English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning.

An Italian Affair

He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life.

Jacob's Room

To be more precise about it, it is neither close nor open-mindedness but wisdom, discernment, and a pure heart that God wants.

Killosophy

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

Selected Essays

No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.

Meeting Shiva: Falling and Rising in Love in the Indian Himalayas

To be precise, there are three gems for healthy life: sufficient workouts, healthy food, and enough sleep.

Some Mistakes Have No Pardon

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

The Sun Watches the Sun

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

When Did You See Her Last?

...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. 

Zoli