Subtle Quotes - Page 35

• A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected many of the scientists in a subtle sense, and it diminished their desire to continue to work on the bomb.

  Leo Szilard

  Exercise, Thinking, Desire

  "President Truman Did Not Understand". U.S. News & World Report, August 15, 1960.

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• Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use.

  Clarence Darrow

  Honesty, Lying, Law

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• Make sure to immediately write down any impressions you receive. Intuitive impressions are often subtle and therefore 'evaporate' very quickly, so make sure to capture them in writing as soon as possible. Recent research in neuroscience indicates that an intuitive insight - or any new idea - not captured within 37 seconds is likely never to be recalled again. In 7 minutes, it's gone forever. As my buddy Mark Victor Hansen likes to say, 'As soon as you think it, ink it!'

  Jack Canfield

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• Comedy should never be over-analysed. It's either funny or it isn't. There's a subtle difference between those who say funny things and those who say things funny.

  Ken Dodd

  Funny Things, Differences, Comedy

  "Dodd's Bolton Bonus". www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. February 15, 2007.

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• Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into
  a tender and subtle offering, what is crude into an object of refinement, what
  is ugly into a thing of beauty, confrontation into collaboration, ignorance into
  knowledge, hereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality
  incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life the servant of love

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Dream, Children, Ignorance

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• Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the realms of culture studies, policy, and policy formation, there is no book quite like Think Tanks in America. Plus which, no one has understood, interpreted, then used Pierre Bourdieu's ideas better-so well that Bourdieu himself would have been pleased.

  Charles Lemert

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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• I was deeply impressed and moved by his masterful playing. He was highly polished, profound, subtle, and intense. He was extremely fluent in a great combination of the traditional vernacular with his own. Hearing it unfold and being in a position to participate was a great pleasure. Part of being an accompanist is that the stronger the soloist, the more I can do all that I know to do. So, Joe was as good as it gets.

  Pete La Roca

  Music, Profound, Good As It Gets

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• Coming to appreciate your worth can, in some cases, dramatically improve your circumstances by changing the choices you make and the actions you take. And as you begin to treat yourself with more respect, other people begin to do the same, since we subconsciously "train" others how to treat us through messages we send through body language, tone of voice, and other subtle cues and behaviors. Discovering your innate worth and living from that place allows you to make more constructive choices-to choose the higher roads of life

  Dan Millman

  Self, Voice, People

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• If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such or so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Thinking Of You, Ocean

  "I am That". Book by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p.316, 2005.

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• The subtle performances of the leads, the remarkable Irrfan Khan and the engaging Nimrat Kaur, make 'The Lunchbox' a pleasure to watch.

  Leonard Maltin

  Watches, Pleasure, Remarkable

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• Today, getting people to hear your story on social media, and then act on it, requires using a platform’s native language, paying attention to context, understanding the nuances and subtle differences that make each platform unique, and adapting your content to match.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Unique, Media, Native Language

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• I don't like the subtle infiltration of 'something for nothing' philosophies into the very hearthstone of the American family. I believe that 'Thou shalt earn the bread by the sweat of thy face' was a benediction and not a penalty. Work is the zest of life; there is joy in its pursuit.

  Branch Rickey

  Philosophy, Believe, Zest

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• I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Football, Invasion

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• The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Ideas, Ephemeral, Definitions

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Jun 30, 2010

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• Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more enduring planets—a connotation of moon and tides—the association of water less subtle, as when driftwood pieces make up a proscenium to set off the dazzling white of sea foam and billowy cloud crystallized in a pipe of fancy.

  Joseph Cornell

  Moon, Sea, White

  Joseph Cornell, Pasadena Art Museum (1967*). “An exhibition of works”

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• It meant something to me – the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a woman’s body. For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favor, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Strong, Heart, Ideas

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• That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

  John Donne

  Lying, Men, Soul

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Ecstasy'

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• There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Thinking, Progress

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.29, 谷月社

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• Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

  Laozi

  Essence, Profound, Taoism

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• The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Eye, Men

  Address in Divinity College, americanliterature.com. July 15, 1838.

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• Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;
  As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
  Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept
  All by the name of dogs: the valued file
  Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
  The housekeeper, the hunter, every one
  According to the gift which bounteous nature
  Hath in him closed.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Names

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

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• Love is one of the most subtle blessings that the All-Merciful One has bestowed upon humanity.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Love, God, Blessing

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• This sound meditation is gentle and subtle, but its benefits are extensive, in that it allows you to gently release tension that arises from your present circumstances, and if you choose to work with it further it can help release negativity from your past.

  Tom Kenyon

  Past, Meditation, Negativity

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• In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.

  Nate Ruess

  New York, Night, Cities

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• I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of written communication. Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less - filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt.

  Daniel Keyes

  Men, Discipline, Library

  "Flowers for Algernon".

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