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Characterized by sharpness or severity




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The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing. You know, they really badly want to write a book but they are not writing it. The only advice I can give them is to just write it, get to the end of it. And, you know, if it's not good enough, write another one. - Teju Cole

I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet. - Olivia Thirlby

The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute. - Edmund Phelps

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom. - Yoko Ono

Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new. - Jason Silva

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. - William Lyon Phelps

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. - Leonard Cohen

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. - Friedrich Nietzsche

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