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• Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

  Don DeLillo

  Eye, Agreement, Cities

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.55, Pan Macmillan

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• The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would melt and flood all low-lying land; or the oceans would freeze and the whole world would be locked in eternal winter. Just a nudge in either direction would be enough.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Lying, Ocean, Moving

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• One should put forth great effort in matters of learning. One should read books concerning military matters, and direct his attention exclusively to
  the virtues of loyalty and filial piety. Reading Chinese poetry, linked
  verse, and waka is forbidden. One will surely become womanized if he gives
  his heart such knowledge of such elegant and delicate refinements. Having
  been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp
  the long and the short swords and to die

  Kato Kiyomasa

  Loyalty, Military, Reading

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• I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

  Alanis Morissette

  Girl, Art, Ideas

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Through the 13th century, paintings of Angels exhibit a predominantly masculine appearance. Over the next 300 years, their images become more delicate, gentle, and feminine, until Angels are shown as androgynous or even distinctly female.

  David Connolly

  Angel, Years, Next

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• Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Spiritual, Communication, Loss

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• Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Intangible, Fragile Things

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• Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Bird, Savages

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

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• The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.

  Ross Macdonald

  Rattlesnakes, Frightened, Sensitivity

  Ross Macdonald (2010). “The Way Some People Die”, p.233, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age.

  Kay Boyle

  Mother, Witty, Childhood

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• I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Priests, Heard, Snowy

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 8

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• Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

  Tony Kushner

  Delusion, Ecology

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.107, Theatre Communications Group

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• The relationship between government and art must necessarily be a delicate one. It would not be appropriate for the government to try to define what is good or what is true or what is beautiful. But government can provide nourishment to the ground within which these ideas spring forth from the seeds of inspiration within the human mind.

  Jimmy Carter

  Beautiful, Art, Spring

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1166, Delphi Classics

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• Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must've hit a window. Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is. You realize that nature is ruthless and our existence is very fragile, temporary, and precious. But to go on with your daily affairs, you can't really think about that... which is probably why everyone takes the world for granted and why we act so thoughtlessly. It's very confusing. I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up. Hobbes: No doubt.

  Bill Watterson

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Thinking

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

  Frank Herbert

  Balance, Care

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.11, Penguin

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• I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Clever, Lying, People

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1896). “Recollections”, p.230, Library of Alexandria

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• I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

  Edmund Burke

  Feelings, Looks, Delight

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• True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some flavor of this in all our love for others. We are all one. We are one flesh in the Mystical Body as man and woman are said to be one flesh in marriage. With such a love one would see all things new; we would begin to see people as they really are, as God sees them.

  Dorothy Day

  Love Is, Men, People

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• Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level

  Gustave Flaubert

  Soul, Identity, Levels

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• When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel. It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful. And sometimes it is enough.

  Vera Nazarian

  Beautiful, Moon, Jewels

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• Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Gentleman, Tubas, Flutes

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• I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them.

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Air, Shining

  "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek". Book by Annie Dillard, 1974.

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• He had relieved whores beyond counting of frocks, stays, chemises, garters, and stockings. He had never before in his life unbuttoned a gently bred maiden's glove. He'd committed salacious acts beyond number. He'd never before felt so depraved as he did now, as the last pearl came free and he drew the soft kid down, baring her wrist, and his dark fingers grazed the delicate skin he'd exposed.

  Loretta Chase

  Kids, Dark, Numbers

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• The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

  Oscar Wilde

  Summer, Garden, Light

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.7, First Avenue Editions

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