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«Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.»
«Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.»
Author: Billy Wilder
| Keywords:
subtleties
«Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
devise, devises, devising, direct, invention, inventions, lacking, simple, subtleties, subtlety, superfluous
«He is inside as well as outside all beings, animate and inanimate. He is incomprehensible because of His subtlety. He is very near as well as far away.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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animate, animates, inanimate, incomprehensible, subtleties, subtlety
«It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Reputation
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especially, most especially, obvious, pays, reputation, subtleties, subtlety
«Questions show the mind's range, and answers, its subtlety»
«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.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Knowledge
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atoms, characteristics, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, subtleties, The Mother, the self
«A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
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abounded, abounding, abounding in, abounding with, abounds, abound in, analysis, at first sight, commodity, niceties, nicety, subtleties, theological, trivial
«O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.»
«Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
common law, construe, construed, Everything or Nothing, Rules of, rule of law, sought, subtleties, The Rule of Law
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