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• It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit. . . . No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest?

  Francois Fenelon

  Love, Believe, Sacrifice

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• The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11...only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Betrayal, Government, Media

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2004.

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• Hot groups have members who are task-obsessed and full of passion. They share a style which is "intense, sharply focused, and full bore. Members feel engaged in an important, even vital and personally ennobling mission; their task dominates all other considerations; and although such intense teams tend to remain intact only for a relatively short period of time, that time is remembered nostalgically and in considerable detail by its members.

  Jean Lipman-Blumen

  Team, Passion, Style

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• Gandhiji would always offer full details of his plans and movements to the police, thereby saving them a great deal of trouble. One police inspector who availed himself of Gandhi's courtesy in this matter is said to have been severely reprimanded by his chief. 'Don't you know,' he told the inspector, 'that everyone who comes into close contact with that man goes over to his side?'

  Reginald Reynolds

  Peace, Men, Police

  Reginald Reynolds (1952). “A Quest for Gandhi”

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• One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.

  James Dobson

  Girl, Sex, Kids

  "Focus on the Family with Dr. James C. Dobson" by James C. Dobson, volumes 19-20, 1995.

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• It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for.

  Elvis Costello

  Stupid, Heart, Greatest Love

  Song: I Want You, Album: Blood And Chocolate, 1986

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• The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

  David O. Selznick

  Attention, Paid, Depends

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• Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

  Kent Nerburn

  Details Of Life, Mindfulness, Pay

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life”, p.18, New World Library

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• Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

  John Wooden

  Perfection, Coaching, Mentoring

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• A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.

  John Wooden

  Fundamentals, Littles, Ability

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.63, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

  Steven Saylor

  Distance, Gazing, Noses

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• Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.

  Craig Groeschel

  Life Changing, Selfish, Belief

  Craig Groeschel (2012). “Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World”, p.34, Zondervan

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• The Negro. The South. These are the details. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls of other men (and in the process destroy themselves) for reasons neither really understands. It is the story of the persecuted, the defrauded, the feared, and detested. I could have been a Jew in Germany, a Mexican in a number of states, or a member of any 'inferior' group. Only the details would have differed. The story would be the same.

  John Howard Griffin

  Real, Men, Numbers

  "Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition".

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• We know we must address climate change. We may not have sorted out every detail, but we are willing to take a leadership position and embrace open dialogue...that will get us all to our common goals of protecting our world for future generations.

  Alain J. P. Belda

  Our World, Goal, Climate

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• It's not what we eat or don't eat that makes us good people; it's how we treat one another. As you grow older, you'll find that people of every religion think they're the best, but that's not true. There are good and bad people in every religion. Just because someone is Muslim, Jewish, or Christian doesn't mean a thing. You have to look and see what's in their hearts. That's the only thing that matters, and that's the only detail God cares about.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Christian, Heart, Mean

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• Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints.

  Herbert Spencer

  Life, Men, Errors

  "The Man versus the State: Great Essays".

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• I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even read his philosophers and listened to his music. I have studied in detail the account of every damned one of his battles. I know exactly how he will react under any given set of circumstances. And he hasn't the slightest idea of what I'm going to do. So when the time comes, I'm going to whip the hell out of him.

  George S. Patton

  Life, Ideas, Leader

  War As I Knew It (1947).

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• A life's record with God in the details can be a spiritual feast for our souls. When we count our blessings on paper, our gratitude soars. It is all so evident.

  Elaine A. Cannon

  Life, Spiritual, Gratitude

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• We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion that a complex system should be structured as a sequence of levels that are described using a sequence of languages. Each level is constructed by combining parts that are regarded as primitive at that level, and the parts constructed at each level are used as primitives at the next level. The language used at each level of a stratified design has primitives, means of combination, and means of abstraction appropriate to that level of detail.

  Hal Abelson

  Learning, Mean, Ideas

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• If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a view of all of them, and this is the role of abstraction. If you look at each too closely you see too many details. If you get far away things may appear simpler because you can only see the large, broad outlines; you do not get lost in petty details.

  John G. Kemeny

  Distance, Learning, Views

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• It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?

  Alan Perlis

  Fun, Learning, Self

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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• How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.

  John Henry Newman

  Teacher, Anxiety, Subjects

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2009). “The Idea of a University”, p.119, Aeterna Press

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• It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

  Carl Jung

  Fate, Men, Psychology

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “Answer to Job”

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• The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think I communicate well. And I am very good at detail. I love detail.

  Robert Crandall

  Thinking, Airline Business, Risk

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• A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Dream, Men

  "Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures".

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