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• Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

  Masiela Lusha

  Kissing, Mind, Lyrical

  ""Masiela's Musings" by Gina LaGuardia". College Bound Teen, October 2004.

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• In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

  Franz Kafka

  Dust, Essence, Individuality

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• I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Kissing, Appreciate, Cameras

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Real, Moving, Reading

  "We never talk any more: The problem with text messaging" by Jeffrey Kluger, edition.cnn.com. August 31, 2012.

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• There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.

  Rita Coolidge

  Powerful, Keys, Voice

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.

  Don Knotts

  Idols, Timing, Masters

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still.

  Judy Davis

  Sexy, Country, Men

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• What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.

  Norah Jones

  Couple, Thinking, Two

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• French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.

  Alma Gluck

  Trying, Vowels, Way

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• I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Guitar, Acoustics, Range

  Interview With James Jensen, everon.50megs.com.

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• Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

  Mary Wesley

  Change, Men, Games

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• In the early days, computers inspired widespread awe and the popular press dubbed them giant brains. In fact, the computer's power resembled that of a bulldozer; it did not harness subtlety, though subtlety went into its design.

  Tracy Kidder

  Design, Brain, Giants

  Tracy Kidder (1982). “The soul of a new machine”, Avon Books

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• It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

  Mark Lawrence

  War, Sacrifice, Winning

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.82, Penguin

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• Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.

  Daniel Craig

  Sexy, Thinking, Games

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• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  Kate Chopin

  Wind, Tree, Earth

  Kate Chopin (1974). “The Storm And Other Stories with THE AWAKENING”

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• If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

  Sakyong Mipham

  Heart, Appreciate, World

  Sakyong Mipham (2013). “The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure”, p.41, Harmony

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• When thoughts are reduced, power of the mind and its subtlety increases, tunes with the Universe. Then you can see the realms beyond the common understanding. When the mind is pure and quiet it becomes one with the universal mind. That mind is like a mirror. The secrets of the Universe will be revealed there.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Mirrors, Meditation, Understanding

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• Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.402, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for a much larger and nobler cause.  They are here to save our lives.

  Emma Thompson

  Anomalies, Nuance, Causes

  "Fictional character: Karen P. Eiffel". "Stranger Than Fiction", 2006.

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• In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Nature, Invention

  The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (translation by Edward MacCurdy)

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• Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mother, Wisdom, Self

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• By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth of the universe.

  Laozi

  Time, Truth, Simple

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

  F. R. Leavis

  Mean, Quality, Experience

  1932 New Bearings in English Poetry, ch.2.

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• Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Judging, Diversity, Needs

  "Stereotyping and Prejudice". Book editing by Charles Stangor, Christian S. Crandall, July 24, 2013.

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• I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

  Oscar Wilde

  Curves, Lines, Certain

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.177, Oxford University Press on Demand

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