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• A small win is a concrete, complete, implemented outcome of moderate importance. By itself, one small win may seem unimportant. A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern that may attract allies, deter opponents, and lower resistance to subsequent proposals. Small wins are controllable opportunities that produce visible results.

  Karl E. Weick

  Winning, Opportunity, Opponents

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• Behind the visible movement there is another movement, one which cannot be seen, which is very strong, on which the outer movement depends. If this inner movement were not so strong, the outer one would not have any action.

  Jeanne de Salzmann

  Strong, Movement, Action

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• Because the meaning of a story does not lie on its surface, visible and self-defining, does not mean that meaning does not exist. Indeed, the ambiguity of meaning, its inner private quality, may well be part of the writer's vision.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Lying, Mean, Self

  Joyce Carol Oates (1992). “The Oxford Book of American Short Stories”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Microsoft has one more shot at a role in smart phone software through its deployment on Nokia phones. Nokia is still the global market share leader in cell phones. Maybe it will work out, but this is hard to envision great success in the area coming on the heels of so much disappointment in missed opportunity in this important and visible category.

  David Einhorn

  Disappointment, Smart, Opportunity

  "Transcript of David Einhorn's Speech at the Ira Sohn Conference". www.businessinsider.com. June 2, 2011.

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• An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Air, Civilization, Elements

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.215, 谷月社

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• Set reasonable goals; not something vague and unrealistic like "I want to be super-model skinny." I always had visions of very thin actresses in my mind when I was at the gym and it seemed so unattainable that I would quit any health regimen before it even got off the ground. But when I changed my mindset to focusing on making the healthiest choices possible for myself, it was a lot more realistic, more attainable, and then the results were visible.

  Alison Sweeney

  Goal, Choices, Mind

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Eye, Healthy, Wish

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.116, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?

  C. S. Lewis

  Hero, Men, Soul

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Angels are visible to those who accept the light and break the pact made with darkness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Angel, Light, Darkness

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• Just as all motion is from an unmovable cause, so everything divisible is from an indivisible cause. However, this visible, corporeal world is, assuredly, of a divisible nature, since what is corporeal is divisible. Therefore, this world is from an earlier, indivisible Cause.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  World, Causes, Indivisible

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• All visible things would not claim as their king some color of their region, which is actually among the visible things of this region, but rather would say, he is the highest possible beauty of the most lucid and perfect color.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Kings, Color, Perfect

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• Nor is the darkness of colour a proof of the earth's baseness; for the brightness of the sun, which is visible to us, would not be perceived by anyone who might be in the sun.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Darkness, Earth, Brightness

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• A reasonable being should ask himself why - if chemicals can enter into plants, and plants be taken up into animals, and animals be taken into man - why man himself, who is the peak of visible creation, should be denied the privilege of being assimilated into a higher power? The rose has no right to say that there is no life above it and neither has man, who has a vast capacity and unconquerable yearning for eternal life and truth and love.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Taken, Animal, Men

  Fulton J. Sheen (2017). “Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity”, p.68, Ignatius Press

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• Also, rights are not things that are given in the heavens. Rather, they are levers for political articulations, which enables what was previously invisible to become visible.

  Simon Critchley

  Rights, Political, Heaven

  "Demand Everything! An Interview With Philosopher Simon Critchley". Interview with Anders Gullestad, www.truth-out.org. May 15, 2010.

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• Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We've confused our own childhoods with episodes of "Ozzie and Harriet," "Father Knows Best," and "The Brady Bunch." In real life, Ozzie had a very visible mistress for years, Bud and Kitten on "Father Knows Best" grew up to become major druggies, and Mom on "The Brady Bunch" dated her fifteen-year-old fictional son.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Mom, Memories, Father

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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• The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculptors themselves are fond of saying - is hidden in the block of material.

  Jacques Barzun

  Memories, Block, Research

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• I believe in invisible; I do not believe in visible.

  Duane Michals

  Believe, Invisible, I Believe

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• Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each other. In the wake of AIDS, gay people felt like they had to organize, become much more active and visible. AIDS fostered a gay rights movement that made gay people more powerful and more vulnerable at the same time.

  Dale Peck

  Powerful, Gay, Rights

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you want to be known for whom you are as a person, then your responsibility it to make your qualities more visible. I believe if you don't you are becoming a victim.

  Marla Runyan

  Believe, Responsibility, Quality

  Source: visionlossresources.org

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• If all you do is make excuses, then that is how people see you. Make your strengths visible.

  Marla Runyan

  People, Excuse, Ifs

  Source: visionlossresources.org

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• It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Dark, Fog

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.269

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• Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

  T. S. Eliot

  World, Sensible, Constant

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• [Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Veils, Rooms, Helping

  Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

  Franz Kafka

  Lying, Circles, Humans

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Joy, Transformed

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

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