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• Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It's imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways - ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Memories, Mind, Body

  "Letter to My Younger Self: Phylicia Rashad" by Phylicia Rashad, www.oprah.com. April 2006.

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• I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination.

  Fred Seibert

  Heart, Dark, Imagination

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• No one has ever been able to discover how they [cats] make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed.

  Paul Gallico

  Cat, Secret, Sound

  Suzanne Szasz, Paul Gallico (1964). “The silent miaow: a manual for kittens, strays, and homeless cats”

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• For woman's chief want is to feel that she is wanted. Therefore it is that with women, cruelty is more easily borne than coldness. Indeed, It is astonishing how much downright cruelty a woman will stand from the man she loves or has loved. What women admire is a subtle combination of forcefulness and gentleness. If a woman has to choose between forcefulness and gentleness, always she will sacrifice the latter.

  Arnold Haultain

  Sacrifice, Men, Want

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• All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

  Duane Michals

  Magic, Mind, Addresses

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• Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Loud Voices

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• Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

  A. O. Scott

  Real, Touching, Directors

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• In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

  Herman Melville

  Emotion, Insight, Causation

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• Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.

  Mason Cooley

  Memories, History, Creative

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• This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do not on any account take your religion seriously.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Christian, Running, Religious

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• I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership.... I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches a person how to do and say the right thing at the right time. It coexists with very ordinary qualities, and yet many great geniuses are without it. Of all human qualities I consider it the most convenient--not always the highest; yet I would rather have it than many more shining qualities.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Leadership, Mean, Shining

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• I know for myself my big, long friendships they don't have the same problems any more, but they also-when you get together you often times just have a drink and watch football together. You're not really talking about everything so much the same way. You just need to be around each other, and yet you can look at each other and so much is said just between those minutiae- it's totally subtle is really what it is. I felt like that, you know, a life that's been so totally dramatic then becomes beauty in the fact that it's just so small.

  Josh Lucas

  Football, Talking, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• Just as thoughts, send out vibrations to which there is a creative and attractive power, gratitude stimulates the field of etheric energy that surrounds you on a subtle level to bring into your life more of what brings you joy.

  Genevieve

  Gratitude, Joy, Creative

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• I suppose that Italy must always lie like some lovely sunken island at the bottom of all passionate dreams, from which at the flood it may arise; the air of it is charged with subtle essences of romance. One supposes Italy must be organized for the need of lovers.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Dream, Lying, Islands

  Mary Hunter Austin (1985). “A Woman of Genius”, p.239, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages past the censor is ultimately a sterile one, diverting writers from their proper task.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Intelligent, Past, Games

  J. M. Coetzee (1997). “Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship”, p.8, University of Chicago Press

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• Choice is born out of opposites, and the duality of the second chakra is forever challenging us to make choices in a world of opposing sides, of positive and negative energy patterns. Every choice we make contributes a subtle current of our energy to our universe, which is responsive to the influence of human consciousness.

  Caroline Myss

  Opposites, Forever, Choices

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.132, Harmony

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• One may guess the why and wherefore of a tear and yet find it too subtle to give any account of. A tear may be the poetical resume of so many simultaneous impressions, the quintessence of so many opposing thoughts! It is like a drop of one of those precious elixirs of the East which contain the life of twenty plants fused into a single aroma.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Giving, Tears, May

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• Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change.

  Carol Emshwiller

  Mean, Writing, Secret

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• Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

  George Foreman

  Forgiveness, Children, One Day

  "George Foreman Has Wisdom, Faith Lessons To Share". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 6, 2010.

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• A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

  Norah Jones

  Enjoy, Music Is

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 2008.

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• The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Believe, Heart

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.570, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.

  Mary MacLane

  Book, Writing, Years

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.24, Petrarca Press

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• The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.

  Carl Jung

  Writing, Fate, Men

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• Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play my game, with the exuberance of experience, the strange and terribly subtle final aims of my Asiatic Blood that remain a mystery to you.

  Paul Meyer

  Clever, Blood, Games

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• If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.

  Azim Premji

  Chinese, Want, United States

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