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• Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

  Samuel Butler

  Teacher, Appreciation, Flower

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• Every move is a creation,
  Maintaining the delicate balance is a creation,
  The line is a creation,
  Survival is a creation,
  Freedom is a creation.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Moving, Survival, Balance

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• Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

  George Stigler

  Weed, Flower, Competition

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• I do have a delicate side.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Sides

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• Hope is delicate suffering.

  Amiri Baraka

  Hope, Suffering

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• I'm feeling a little delicate.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Feelings, Littles

  "Suu Kyi runs freely in weekend election". "AM" with Zoe Daniel, www.abc.net.au. March 31, 2012.

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• Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into the vale of years—yet that’s not much— She’s gone. I am abused, and my relief Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others’ uses. Yet ’tis the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than the base. ’Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.

  William Shakespeare

  Destiny, Years, Black

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Othello”, p.140, Heinemann

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• [Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Taken, Moving, Journey

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen”, p.3, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

  Novalis

  Delicacy

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• Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Heart, World, Tongue

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• The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Delicate Things, People, Everyday

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1998.

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• Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did so, the waves of her consciousness pulsed through my fingertips and into me - a delicate resonance of longing. Probably someone should take this girl in his arms and hold her tight, I thought. Probably someone other than me. Someone qualified to give her something. "Goodbye, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. See you again sometime.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Goodbye, Eye

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 10, 2011.

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• My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Sweet, Art

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• Your language, dear," Victoria reproved gently. "A lady never curses in public. There are much better ways to handle the delicate male ego." Keiley paused. "With a two-by-four?" she asked. Victoria's lips pursed a smile tugged at her lips. "Only as a last resort," she murmured humorously. "And never in public.

  Lora Leigh

  Two, Ego, Lips

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• The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Jobs, Delicate Life, Tea

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• When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours; and although we may be delicate and soft, some men who are delicate are also strong; and others, coarse and harsh, are cowards. Women have not yet realized this, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow. —Veronica Franco 1546-1591

  Veronica Franco

  Strong, Heart, Fighting

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• ...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think that I should refuse outright to die, for life would be too good to relinquish.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Thinking, Delicate Life, Pie

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek Cookery”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Happiness, Saint, Sense Of Humor

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• A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed.

  Steve McCurry

  Might, Poignant, Unnoticed

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• Friendship is far more delicate than love.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Hester Lynch Piozzi, Penelope Pennington (2005). “The Intimate Letters of Piozzi and Pennington”, Nonsuch Pub

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• Tachyon OPC+ is a natural extension of our market-winning Tachyon platform, giving customers a clear path to minimizing the OPC error budget and producing better-performing circuits sooner and faster. Until now, customers have had to deal with a delicate balance of compromises when producing advanced OPC-enabled circuits, including trading accuracy for speed. Tachyon OPC+ breaks free from these compromises.

  Bill Vaughan

  Winning, Errors, Giving

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• For in the wood these golden days Some leaf obeys its Maker's call. And through their hollow aisles it plays With delicate touch the prelude of the Fall.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Golden Days, Play

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Excursions and Poems : The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.368, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

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• Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Oneness, Awareness

  "Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence".

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• Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Heart, May

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.

  Salvador Dali

  Mean, Reality, Osmosis

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