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• Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure. Fragrance must be introduced properly. A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Signatures, Dresses

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• Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

  Karl Marx

  Essence, Form, Profit

  Karl Marx (1977). “Capital: a critique of political economy”, Vintage

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• We must be like the fountain or spring that is continually emptying itself of all that it has and is continually being refilled from an invisible source. To be continually giving out for the good of our fellows undeterred by fear of poverty and reliant on the unfailing bounty of the Source of all wealth and all good -- this is the secret of right living.

  Shoghi Effendi

  Spring, Giving, Secret

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• Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Prayer, Tools, World

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• Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Book, Familiarity

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• Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Everyday, Architecture, Habit

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• The invisible realm is superior and far more real than the visible realm.

  John Paul Jackson

  Real, Superiors, Realms

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• We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it's never a question of 'critical mass.' It's always about critical connections.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Connections, Fabric, World

  James Boggs, Grace Lee Boggs (1974). “Revolution and Evolution”, p.44, NYU Press

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• Christ, invisible to the bodily eye, manifests Himself on earth clearly through His Church ... The Church is the Body of Christ both because its parts are united to Christ through His divine mysteries and because through her Christ works in the world.

  John of Shanghai and San Francisco

  Love, Truth, Eye

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• I'd worked on leprosy and malaria in India [at the World Bank] and asked myself the question: Why do we let 2 million children die every year around the world for not having clean water? Because they're faceless and nameless. So, for me, Facebook looked like it was going to solve the problem of the invisible victim.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Children, Work, Women

  "Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: who are you calling bossy?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2014.

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• Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Clay, Purpose, Territory

  E. L. Doctorow (1994). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, Perennial

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• It is not enough to know the Son of God in the Father's nature only, unless we acknowledge Him in what is ours without withdrawal of what is His own. For that self-emptying, which He underwent for man's restoration, was the dispensation of compassion, not the loss of power. For, though by the eternal purpose of God there was 'no other name under heaven given to men whereby they must be saved' (Acts 4:12), the Invisible made His substance visible, the Intemporal temporal, the Impassable passable: not that power might sink into weakness, but that weakness might pass into indestructible power.

  Pope Leo I

  Christian, Father, Loss

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• I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

  Amy Tan

  Strength, Mother, Art

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• To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never taught by those who shared the serenity of Nature. For each phase of Nature, though not invisible, is yet not too distinct or obtrusive. It is there to be found when we look for it, but not too demanding of our attention.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spiritual, Nature, Serenity

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.20, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• No deliberation made by a single person will be successful; the nature of the work which a sovereign has to do is to be inferred from the consideration of both the visible and invisible causes. The clearance of doubts as to whatever is susceptible of two opinions, and the inference of the whole when only a part is seen is possible of decision only by ministers. Hence the king shall sit at deliberation with persons of wide intellect.

  Chanakya

  Kings, Successful, Two

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• If you can see the invisible, then you can see the possible and provide the opportunities for trust, commitment and ways of empowering others to manage their past, present and future.

  Ken Wyatt

  Future, Commitment, Past

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• Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Atoms, Potency, Unthinkable

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3152, Manonmani Publishers

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• So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

  George Eliot

  Music, World, Choir

  George Eliot (1874). “The Legend of Jubal: And Other Poems”, p.242

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• What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the human experience is far more real to us than the visible world, which is little more than a kind of stage or screen on which we move.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Moving, Community

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• Now you are deep in what seems to me a peculiarly selfless service. The spiritual training of children must be that. You work for the years you will not see. You work for the Invisible all the time, but you work for the Eternal. So it is all worthwhile.

  Amy Carmichael

  Spiritual, Children, Years

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• Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.

  Joyce Brothers

  Inspirational, Details, Ifs

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• When done well, software is invisible.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Done, Software, Wells

  "Inventor of C++ reflects on 25 years of the programming language". Interview with Micahel Calore, www.wired.co.uk. October 15, 2010.

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• We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination

  John Berger

  Destination, Draws, Accompany

  John Berger (2011). “Bento's Sketchbook”, p.10, Pantheon

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• You are not invisible to your Heavenly Father. He loves you.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Father, Love You, Heavenly

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• Spirituality is invisible. Never forget that. If you can see it, if it's dressed in funny robes, if it's up there to be looked at, if it's making a big performance of itself, it is not spirituality. It is ego.

  Stuart Wilde

  Ego, Spirituality, Never Forget

  Stuart Wilde (1996). “Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power”, p.142, Hay House, Inc

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