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• I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Inability, Development, Conscious

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin “The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin”, Library of Alexandria

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• I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

  Banksy

  People, Invisibility, Forget

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• At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its minutest details. For one short instant the personal becomes one with the individual and all-knowing ego. But this instant is enough to show to him the whole chain of causes which have been at work during his life.

  Annie Besant

  Past, Men, Knowing

  Annie Besant (2017). “Death and After?”, p.21, BookRix

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• We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased.

  Annie Besant

  Husband, Home, Thinking

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fashion, Discipline, Smallest

  Twitter post from Mar 21, 2016

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• I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Memories, Night, Thinking

  Jorge Luis Borges (2007). “Labyrinths”, p.297, New Directions Publishing

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• Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

  Benjamin Britten

  Bricks And Mortar, Fog, Color

  "The Classical Music Experience: Discover the Music of the World's Greatest Composers". Book by Julius H. Jacobson (p.341), 2008.

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• I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.

  Sandra Bullock

  Needs, Want, Clock

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• There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within the pastry chef field. Some pastry chefs specialize in baking breads, while others are master cake designers. Each field requires an exceptional level of creativity and attention to detail.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Creativity, Cake, Attention

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• I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch it, you're gonna see something new in that world. That level of detail really inspires me.

  Nicolas Cage

  Inspire, World, Levels

  "Not much rattling Nicolas Cage these days". Interview with Andrea Mineo, edition.cnn.com. July 24, 2009.

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• I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

  Mariah Carey

  People, Attention, Tvs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.

  Phil Collins

  London, Rooms, Hospitality

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• I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.

  Phil Collins

  Details Of Life, People, Fascinated

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• There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Home, Reality, America

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• I love anything really feminine. I love any sort of girly detail - anything with a bow or a heart on it, I'm immediately in love with.

  Lauren Conrad

  Girly, Heart, Bows

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• The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lying, Mean, Light

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.384, Delphi Classics

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• An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Writing, Boring

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.10, Penguin

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• I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.

  John Paul DeJoria

  People, Guy, Together

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• Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

  Celine Dion

  Dream, People, Wonder

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• I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

  Rita Dove

  Intimate Moments, Hinges, Our Lives

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• A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

  John Foster Dulles

  Motivational, Men, Attention

  "Trump's Secretary of State pick: What every American should know about Rex Tillerson" by Robert Charles, www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2016.

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• Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.

  Roger Ebert

  Fans, Analysis, Literature

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• The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

  Havelock Ellis

  Husband, Home, Average

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.67, Elsevier

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• The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

  Eminem

  Family, Divorce, Sake

  "Eminem Responds to Kim's Comments on Divorce". www.foxnews.com. April 7, 2006.

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• The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

  Arthur Erickson

  Art, Expression, Design

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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