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• I'd once been fascinated by his legend - all the stories I'd heard before I met him. Now I can feel that same sense of fascination returning. I picture his face, so beautiful even after pain and torture and grief, his blue eyes bright and sincere. I'm ashamed to admit that I enjoyed my brief time with him in his prison cell. His voice can make me forget about all the details running through my mind, bringing with it emotions of desire, or fear instead, sometimes even anger, but always triggering something. Something that wasn't there before.

  Marie Lu

  Beautiful, Running, Pain

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• I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. And as he did, I thought again of those mornings in the hallway at school, way back in ninth grade. Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all.

  Sarah Dessen

  Morning, Sorry, Eye

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.87, Penguin

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• One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time.

  Paul Bowles

  Unique, Would Be, Each Day

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• It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us.

  Neil Gaiman

  Matter, Remember, I Can

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• The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

  Anita Diament

  Daughter, Mother, Stronger

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• With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.

  Sarah Dessen

  Matter, Better Late Than Never, Picks

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• Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop evolving (and social evolution inevitably dovetails with the agenda of those who see change as an abstract positive). It might take seventy years, but it always happens eventually. Serious historians are, almost without exception, self-styled progressives. Radical views--even the awful ones--improve with age.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Winning, Self, Views

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• So, what are you?" "What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.

  Cassandra Clare

  Want, Window

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• He was struck by the details of the moment. This was something he needed to remember, when he dreamt. This feeling right here: heart thudding, pollen sticky on his fingertips, July pricking sweat at his breastbone, the smell of gasoline and someone else's charcoal grill.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Heart, July, Sweat

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.212, Scholastic Inc.

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• When you see an object, it seems that you see it as an entire thing first, and only afterwards do its details follow on. But for people with autism, the details jump straight out at us first of all, and then only gradually, detail by detail, does the whole image float up into focus.

  Naoki Higashida

  People, Autism, Focus

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• It’s like, you know, it doesn’t matter what you do, even if you try to replicate an experience down to every last detail, it’ll never be the way it was when it happened naturally the first time.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Trying, Matter, Way

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• The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

  Robert Collier

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Life is relationships; the rest is just details.

  Gary Smalley

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

  Gary Smalley, Greg Smalley, Michael Smalley, Robert S. Paul (2013). “The DNA of Relationships”, p.37, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Power lies in the details, and the tenacious pursuit of such hidden levers can pay off enormously. While you don't want to get a reputation as a prissy worrywart, worrying about the details in private is important. You may think you are the world's greatest speaker, but if the auditorium's sound system is singing static - well, forget it.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Lying, Thinking

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• The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Freedom, Democracy, Vote

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• Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject: One can judge a building without knowing where to buy the bricks; one can understand a violin sonata without knowing how to score for the instrument. The work may in fact be better understood without a knowledge of the details of its manufacture, of attention to these tends to distract from meaning and effect.

  Jacques Barzun

  Knowledge, Knowing, Judging

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• In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Knowledge, Principles, Grows

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• The past doesn't equal the future.
  All great leaders, all people who have achieved in any area of life,
  know the power of continuously pursuing their vision,
  even if all the details of how to achieve it aren't yet available

  Tony Robbins

  Leadership, Past, People

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.

  Marvin Minsky

  Music, Art, People

  "Music, Mind, and Meaning". Computer Music Journal, Vol. 5, Number 3, web.media.mit.edu. Fall 1981.

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• The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to see how long they could keep someone alive while being roasted. It is not needful to go into further details, but there were also religious books of instruction in this art, and guides for the detection of heresy by pain.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Art, Pain

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.208, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of it in scientific journals, where such quarrels as exist are over details, not the basic concept... Evolution has proved so useful as a paradigm for the origin and structure of life that it constitutes the foundation of the sciences of biology and medicine.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Medicine, Religion, Atheism

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has finally won tardy recognition it is usually found to have been anticipated, often with cogent reasons and in great detail.

  F. C. S. Schiller

  Science, Discovery, Law

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• I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.

  Yanni

  Single, Regret, Past

  Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

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• Worry, about the 'thousand and one' details entailed. My one-track mind has to be relieved of these worries completely or I cannot get started working on my paintings, or even get to sleep at night.

  E. J. Hughes

  Sleep, Night, Worry

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• You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you're going to dance the next day, going over every little detail.

  Darcey Bussell

  Dance, Dream, Cutting

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