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• Once you start backing into all of that, then you see this incredibly intricate, totally wrong-headed way to do things, but nevertheless has a lot of merit to it for the fact that [Buckminster Fuller] is recognizing much larger patterns, seeking much larger patterns and seeking much larger ways of trying to solve for the problem of unhygienic conditions in slums. They really were unhygienic. Whether his family was living in the slum is debatable but they were unhygienic. That needed to be addressed. He was attempting to address it.

  Jonathon Keats

  Trying, Patterns, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Ultimately, an aircraft owner does not want to have to deal with all the intricate details which are necessary for the business.

  Niki Lauda

  Details, Doe, Want

  Source: www.european-business.com

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• As a general rule, moderate levels of arousal facilitate deployment of skills, whereas high arousal disrupts it. This is especially true of complex activities requiring intricate organization of behavior

  Albert Bandura

  Skills, Organization, Deployment

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• You may be somebody who writes best for a small press that doesn't pay very well, but you might have a fascinating and intricate style that might not appeal to as many readers but will be incredibly meaningful to the readers you have. Truly, that's as wonderful if not more wonderful.

  Alice Mattison

  Meaningful, Writing, Style

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• Providence is wonderfully intricate. Ah! You want always to see through Providence, do you not? You never will, I assure you. You have not eyes good enough. You want to see what good that affliction was to you; you must believe it. You want to see how it can bring good to the soul; you may be enabled in a little time; but you cannot see it now; you must believe it. Honor God by trusting Him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Believe, Eye

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• You have a great body. It is an intricate piece of technology and a sophisticated super-computer. It runs on peanuts and even regenerates itself. Your relationship with your body is one of the most important relationships you'll ever have. And since repairs are expensive and spare parts are hard to come by, it pays to make that relationship good.

  Steve Goodier

  Running, Technology, Important Relationships

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• The Forgotten Realms is arguable the most detailed, intricate fantasy setting ever created this side of Middle Earth. It's a setting for many D&D game products and lots of fiction. It is vast, historically and geographically and so contains just about anything you might imagine, at one place or time or another. Created by Ed Greenwood. And, for the record, Ed Greenwood is one of the smartest guys I've ever met.

  Paul S. Kemp

  Games, Guy, Fiction

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Did the media ever question anything about Obamacare, the intricate do's and don'ts, the policy cogs? No.[Barack] Obama just wanted it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, Obamacare, Cogs

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.

  H. G. Wells

  Illumination, Mind, Victory

  H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.6925, e-artnow

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• Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve.

  Henry Miller

  Struggle, Might, Fluency

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.

  Alice Sebold

  Ruth, Medical, Patch Up

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• Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

  Adrianne Palicki

  Smart, Writing

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• Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.

  Walt Whitman

  Rocks, Purpose, Months

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.24, NYU Press

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• There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.

  Isaac Asimov

  Lonely, Men, Mind

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.56, Macmillan

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• All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or daisies or thinking about love, all her private intricate thoughts, her inconsequential secret musings – they’re gone too. I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I’m watching it burn right to the ground.

  Jandy Nelson

  Thinking, Expression, Secret

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.101, Penguin

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• Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

  Jay McInerney

  Suicide, Self Harm, Arms

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• ...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.

  Jane Jacobs

  Block, Cities, Use

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• I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

  Donald Miller

  Language, Mystery, Ability To Communicate

  Donald Miller (2004). “Searching for God Knows What”, p.55, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

  Amy Bloom

  Marriage, Love You, Long

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• Six months since we met up again we are inseparable, an intricate weave. No longer do I believe this is a temporary fling. More like total commitment. More like I have walked down the aisle, holding hands with the monster.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Believe, Commitment, Hands

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Glass”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

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• when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light of a room, the minute of the day. Mouths reveal insecurity or smugness or any other point on the spectrum of character. For him they are the most intricate aspect of faces. He's never sure what an eye reveals. but he can read how mouths darken into callousness, suggest tenderness. One can often misjudge an eye from its reaction to a simple beam of sunlight.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Character, Eye, Simple

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• It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The glances they exchanged; the complicated balance of power established over decades; the games I would never play with rules I would never fully understand. And perhaps that was key: they were such a natural group that they made me feel remarkably singular by comparison. To watch them together was to know strongly, painfully, all that I'd been missing.

  Kate Morton

  Sibling, Keys, Games

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.436, Simon and Schuster

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• In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.

  Isaac Marion

  Mind, Ceilings, Mouths

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Successful, Earthquakes, Personality

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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• Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an object of research, presents a defiant challenge to its own ingenuity.

  William Feindel

  Cells, Challenges, Brain

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