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• The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account becomes

  Thomas Nagel

  Historical, Chemicals, Intricacy

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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• Well, I don’t know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I’m no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

  Roger Penrose

  Real, Knowing, People

  "Secrets of the Old One". "The Groks Science Show" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com. January 18, 2009.

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• Branches or types are characterized by the plan of their structure,
  Classes, by the manner in which that plan is executed, as far as ways and means are concerned,
  Orders, by the degrees of complication of that structure,
  Families, by their form, as far as determined by structure,
  Genera, by the details of the execution in special parts, and
  Species, by the relations of individuals to one another and to the world in which they live, as well as by the proportions of their parts, their ornamentation, etc.

  Louis Agassiz

  Mean, Order, Class

  Louis Agassiz (1857). “Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America: pt. I. Essay on classification. pt. II. North American Testudinata. 1857”, p.170

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• My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Teacher, Teaching, Simple

  "Geek of the Week: Niklaus Wirth". Interview with Richard Morris, www.red-gate.com. July 26, 2012.

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• When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who is paying attention to every single detail of his job.

  Michael Ovitz

  Jobs, Laid Back, Attention

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• A fascinating, insightful, and new treatment from the perspective of an intimately involved former Iranian senior official on Iran's nuclear program and responses to it. For those familiar with the details, there is much new information about the Iran side, its ideas, strategies, disputes, and aims. U.S. experts will have some key questions but will learn much from this extraordinary book.

  Thomas R. Pickering

  Senior, Book, Keys

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• Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a backdrop of looming danger. Anne Fortier casts a new light on one of history's greatest stories of passion. I was swept away.

  Sara Gruen

  Passion, Light, Historical

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• Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think of how what they are doing relates to the larger picture. For example, in education, a teacher might say in the next class he was going to "explain Young's modulus and how to measure it," rather than, "I am going to educate the students and prepare them for their future careers".

  Richard Hamming

  Teacher, Thinking, Careers

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• As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.

  Don Shula

  Motivational, Sports, Player

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• Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail the force that infuses every petal might specifically run through us, wishing only to lure us into our full potential.

  Mary Karr

  Running, Wish, Full Potential

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• Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who do so wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes. I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense, but it's questionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter, or recovering from flu. Its period detail is good; my husband says it's witty---and without going to these lengths, I will say that it is very good fun.

  Georgette Heyer

  Witty, Fun, Husband

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• The evil always comes from details.

  Henning Mankell

  Evil

  "The Man from Beijing". Book by Henning Mankell, 2008.

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• The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

  Yukio Mishima

  Special, Quality, Lasts

  Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.92, Tuttle Publishing

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• I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.

  Otto Hahn

  War, Poison, Use

  Otto Hahn (1970). “My life: the autobiography of a scientist”, MacDonald

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• I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy... I can't get into minute details.

  Dee Snider

  Water, Creative, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else

  Indra Nooyi

  Organization, Important, Insane

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• The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a life whose scorched-earth physical and psycho-emotional dimensions no one could have invented - they absolutely had to be lived. By all rights, the author should either be dead or chewing his fingers in a bus station. Instead, he may well have written the memoir of an entire generation.

  Jerry Stahl

  Heart, Eye, Reality

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• Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Teacher, Philosophy, Philosophical

  "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.

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• When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Writing, Eye

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• I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Taken, Apples, Creative

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• The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.

  Hyman Rickover

  Devil, Salvation

  "The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

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• Management philosophy: Pay attention to the vital fiew and ignore the trivial many. I could go insane if I obsessed over every little details of all my companies.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Philosophy, Insane, Attention

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• If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Real, Writing, Way

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• I'd never really wanted to have a really 'private' life before. But when somebody starts delving into it and printing details through the tabloids for shagging people you shouldn't have shagged, then that probably made me shy away a bit more from giving too much away.

  Jarvis Cocker

  People, Giving, Shy

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• What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. We don't know what details of a truly sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options, we need people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturists are one of the critical gangs that are doing that.

  David Suzuki

  People, Important, Groups

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