Famous quotes containing the words avoid, precision and/or loss:
“The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)