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• What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

  Laurie Lee

  Country, Flower, Teaching

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• Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

  John Polkinghorne

  Thinking, Ideas, Helpful

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• The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters

  William Maxwell

  Past, Views, Curiosity

  William Maxwell (2013). “All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories”, p.357, Vintage

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• I think we will have continuing danger from these markets and that we will have repeats of the financial crisis - [they] may differ in details but there will be significant financial downturns and disasters attributed to this regulatory gap, over and over, until we learn from experience

  Brooksley Born

  Thinking, May, Gaps

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• There are only four types of officer. First, there are the lazy, stupid ones. Leave them alone, they do no harm…Second, there are the hard- working, intelligent ones. They make excellent staff officers, ensuring that every detail is properly considered. Third, there are the hard- working, stupid ones. These people are a menace and must be fired at once. They create irrelevant work for everybody. Finally, there are the intelligent, lazy ones. They are suited for the highest office.

  Erich von Manstein

  Stupid, Hard Work, Intelligent

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• To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and spare no detail, no matter how terrible. It is always easier to write a piece of fluff and leave everybody smiling. But then, the horrors of poaching would continue unchallenged?like as tent caterpillars consuming an apple orchard, our species mindlessly consumes the others of the earth. At present, the most significant hope for our planet may be knowledge, and Richard Ellis has done a heroic job in providing a large measure of that.

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.

  Robert Grudin

  Attitude, Lying, Struggle

  Robert Grudin (1982). “Time and the art of living”, Harpercollins

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• The first track is the end of a string.  At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about itself every so many feet, telling you more about itself until you can almost see it, even before you come to it.  The mystery reveals itself slowly, track by track, giving its genealogy early to coax you in.  Further on, it will tell you the intimate details of its life and work, until you know the maker of the track like a lifelong friend.

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Moving, Feet, Track

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• Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining.

  Sandra Gulland

  Games, Historical, Mystery

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• One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.

  Edward T. Hall

  Details Of Life, Culture, Attention

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• If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.

  Lance Loud

  Cutting, Gay, Men

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• Becaise I love God, I want to handle his truth with accuracy, clarity, and specificity. I want to build bridges of understanding from the wisdom of the Word to the details of people's lives. And because I love people, I will not be satisfied with lobbing grenades of general truth at them. Rather, through good questions, committed listening, and careful interpretation, I will enter their world with the understanding necessary to bring Christ's help to where it is really needed.

  Paul David Tripp

  Bridges, People, Understanding

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• In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

  Ken Danby

  Useless, Sake, Painting

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• I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.

  Valentino Garavani

  Years, Track, Staying

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• People have criticized me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are.

  Marion Barry

  People, President, Want

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• Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.

  Colin Fletcher

  Journey, Hiking, Space

  Colin Fletcher (2014). “The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher”, p.105, Vintage

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• You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

  Julie Delpy

  Beautiful, Sunset, Before Sunrise

  "Before Sunset". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Hands, Moments, Divine

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• By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in such details as that meter sticks shorten when they move or that simultaneous position and momentum have no meaning, but in the insight that we had not been using our minds properly and that it is important to find out how to do so.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Lying, Moving, Science

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• Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Events, Stories, Trials

  A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.240, Hachette UK

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• I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

  Anne Tyler

  Book, Character, Writing

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• Chef Matt Accarrino has the best pasta in San Francisco, and Shelley Lindgren is one of my favorite sommeliers. Their attention to detail in the service, food, and amazing wines will blow anyone away.

  Elizabeth Falkner

  Wine, Blow, San Francisco

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• As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions of executive power are indeed a nightmare and Peter Shane's extremely readable and well-informed book describes this disturbing transformation in frightening detail. For anybody who cares about our constitutional system of protected liberties, this book is indispensable. I couldn't put it down and grew angrier, and more concerned, with every page.

  Mickey Edwards

  Book, Government, People

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• New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

  Nate Silver

  Ideas, Marketing, Looks

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.76, Penguin

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• When I started out in business, I spent a great deal of time researching every detail that might be pertinent to the deal I was interested in making. I still do the same today. People often comment on how quickly I operate, but the reason I can move quickly is that I've done the background work first, which no one usually sees. I prepare myself thoroughly, and then when it is time to move ahead, I am ready to sprint.

  Donald Trump

  Work, Moving, People

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