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• It's an honour to have such a wonderful international cast on board for this world famous murder mystery. Writer Stewart Harcourt has created an exquisite script. His attention to detail is impeccable.

  David Suchet

  Murder Mysteries, Boards, Attention

  "Production starts on 'Orient Express'" by Mayer Nissim, www.digitalspy.com. November 17, 2009.

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• The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

  Carl Sagan

  Cosmos, Machinery, Elegant

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean". TV Series, 1990.

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• What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human life on earth. My life depends on engaging the most ordinary physical activities with the most exquisite attention I can give them. My life depends on ignoring all touted distinctions between the secular and the sacred, the physical and the spiritual, the body and the soul. What is saving my life now is becoming more fully human, trusting that there is no way to God apart from real life in the real world.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Spiritual, Real, Giving

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• A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

  Leigh Hunt

  Pain, Pleasure, Amount

  Letter to Alexander Ireland, 2 June 1848, on receiving 'a glorious batch of 'Examiners", in 'The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt' (1862) vol. 2, p. 122

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• Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.

  Paul Brunton

  Serenity, Taste, Silent

  Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton”, Larson Publication

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• I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Love Is, Discovery, Not Sure

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”

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• Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of the dynamics of Jewish mysticism, but of the exquisite complexities of Jewish history and tradition, Major Trends is a major port of entry through which one must pass.

  Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

  Understanding, Trends, Dynamics

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• There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Grief, Suffering, Sorrow

  Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.7, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

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• Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.

  Nikki Gemmell

  Home, Life Is, Natural

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• Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Events, Details, Stories

  A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.240, Hachette UK

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• Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Drinking, Breathing, Skills

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.72

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• There are three layers to the universe. In the lower, Tai Ching, and the middle, Shan Ching, the hindrance of a physical bodily existence is required. Those who fail to live consistently in accord with the Tao reside here. In the upper, Yu Ching, there is only Tao: the bondage of form is broken, and the only thing existing is the exquisite energy dance of the immortal divine beings.

  Laozi

  Broken, Energy, Three

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

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• The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.

  Confucius

  Greatness, Men, Honor

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.2, Delphi Classics

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• What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose, among the only ones who live beyond the grave in this world, the people who write books that help, make exquisite music, carve statues, paint pictures, and work for others. Never mind the calico dress, and the coarse shoes. Work at you books, and before long you will hear yesterday's tormentors boasting that they were once classmates of yours.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Lying, Book, Writing

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2013). “The Essential Gene Stratton-Porter Collection”, p.819, eBookIt.com

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• Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Rain, Mountain Ranges, Design

  Robert C. Solomon (2006). “Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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• Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Kindness, Men, Perfect

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• Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with clear-eyed honesty and grace. Tailings is simply an exquisite book.

  Dinty W. Moore

  Spiritual, Honesty, Book

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• There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan and the musician.

  Glenn T. Seaborg

  Men, Discovery, Discipline

  "Biographical Memoirs" edited by Darleane C. Hoffman, (p. 252), 2000.

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• In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses to a heron, cicada, spider, catalpa tree, mockingbird, snail, cormorant, and others. These pitch-perfect poems are written with a delicate, meticulous attention to craft and music. Like the joy she takes in her subjects, this collection is a joy to read.

  Elizabeth Spires

  Summer, White, Perfect

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• Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in vociferous numbers, sustaining themselves with a heavenly ichor that combines loyalty, criticism, cheerfulness, durability, rage, beer and hope, in exquisite proportions.

  Roger Angell

  Loyalty, Baseball, Beer

  Roger Angell (2013). “The Roger Angell Baseball Collection: The Summer Game, Five Seasons, and Season Ticket”, p.1294, Open Road Media

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• I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to pass before the Muse's lips let it fall, with however exquisite deliberation.

  Arthur Quiller-Couch

  Fall, Thrill, Lips

  "The Oxford Book of English Verse". Book edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, Introduction, 1900.

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• Life is less a quest than a quilt. We find meaning, love, and prosperity through the process of stitching together our bold attempts to help others find their own way in their lives. The relationships we weave become an exquisite and endless pattern.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Quilts, Helping Others, Together

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.357, Crown Business

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• Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Kindness, Voice, Tone

  Lafcadio Hearn (2015). “Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan”, p.39, Routledge

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• I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Sight, Sky, Snow

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.101, John Wiley & Sons

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• When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.

  Eric Whitacre

  Singing, Tears, Way

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