Subtle Quotes - Page 23

• The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another.

  Pal Benko

  Kings, Squares, Pieces

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• Trees are the largest and most spiritually advanced plants on Earth. They are constantly in meditation. Subtle energy is their natural language.

  Mantak Chia

  Meditation, Tree, Energy

  Mantak Chia (2006). “Chi Nei Tsang: Chi Massage for the Vital Organs”, p.84, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• Worry is a subtle way of telling God that He's fallen asleep at the wheel and that things aren't under His authority, but ours.

  Margaret Feinberg

  Wisdom, Worry, Way

  Margaret Feinberg, Women of Faith, (2014). “Overcoming Worry: Finding Peace in the Midst of Uncertainty”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

  Alan Watts

  Change, World, Way

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.123, New World Library

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• The subtle are the causes, the gross the effects.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Causes, Gross, Effects

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Raja Yoga: Art of Living”, p.7, editionNEXT.com

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• If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

  Alan Ayckbourn

  Women, Believe, Littles

  Alan Ayckbourn (1988). “The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays”, p.199, Grove Press

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• True magic therefore is the high knowledge of the more subtle powers that have not yet been acknowledged by science up to this date because the methods of scrutiny that have been applied so far do not suffice for their grasping, understanding and utilization, although the laws of magic are analogous to all official sciences of the world.

  Franz Bardon

  Knowledge, Law, Understanding

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• Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know just where to stick the dynamite. With a few small power plays - a skeptical comment, the withholding of approval or praise - a mother can devastate a daughter. Decades of subtle undermining can stunt a daughter, or so monopolize her energy that she in effect stunts herself. Muted, fearful, riddled with self-doubt, she can remain trapped in daughterhood forever, the one place she feels confident she knows the rules.

  Rebecca Walker

  Daughter, Mother, Emotional

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• We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence, segregation is violence, thinking ill of others and condemning others are violence. In order to reduce individual acts of physical violence, we must work to eliminate violence at all levels, mental, verbal, personal, and social, including violence to animals, plants, and all other forms of life.

  Satish Kumar

  Fear, Thinking, Animal

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• When you talk to people about the books that have meant a lot to them, it's usually books they read when they were younger because the books have this wonder in everyday things that isn't bogged down by excessively grown-up concerns or the need to be subtle or coy... when you read these books as an adult, it tends to bring back the sense of newness and discovery that I tend not to get from adult fiction.

  Jesse Sheidlower

  Book, Discovery, Everyday Things

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• One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice.

  Michael Marshall Smith

  Powerful, Dark, Unique

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• An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative prose, A Bit of Difference bristles with penknife-sharp dialogue, but its truths are more subtle, hiding in the unspoken. Ultimately, A Bit of Difference explores – with a hint of mischief–the problem of how to look like you have no problems when you have abundant problems–the universal problem of the socially-motivated classes.

  Nii Parkes

  Class, Differences, Despair

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• In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We’re in this together.'

  Constance Hale

  Writing, Important, Together

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• That time of day when the sun hasn’t come up yet, but you can already feel it coming. It’s an elusive warmth, like a subtle promise whispered in your ear and you can go on with your day knowing you’ve been given another chance to get it right.

  Cassia Leo

  Knowing, Promise, Sun

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• Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.

  Maggie Scarf

  Wise, Long, Intimacy

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• The most powerful way to manifest is through subtle intention and choiceless awareness-inten d to let go and flow.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Powerful, Way

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Aug 08, 2011

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• If you feel that you can follow a few little rules or some clever gimmicks to make you a mature Christian, then you have fallen into a subtle trap of legalism.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Christian, Clever, Littles

  J. Vernon McGee (1984). “Genesis through Revelation: 5 Volumes Genesis - Revelation”, p.7596, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Be sensitive to subtle differences between 'intuition' and 'into wishing'.

  Ed Seykota

  Differences, Intuition, Wish

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• Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But here it is done psychologically and by education. So even if women have the clitoris, the clitoris was banned; it was removed by Freudian theory and by the mainstream culture.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Egypt, Mainstream Culture, Female

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• Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Numbers, Doe, Alive

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.108, A&C Black

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• One of the first signs that you’re beginning to develop boundaries is a sense of resentment, frustration, or anger at the subtle and not-so-subtle violations in your life. Just as radar signals the approach of a foreign missile, your anger can alert you to boundary violations in your life.

  Henry Cloud

  Frustration, Firsts, Resentment

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2017). “Boundaries Updated and Expanded Edition: When to Say Yes, How to Say No To Take Control of Your Life”, p.170, Zondervan

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• Anything but the void. And so we keep hoping to luck into a winning combination, to tap into a subtle harmony, trying like lock pickers to negotiate a compromise with the 'mystery tramp,' as Bob Dylan put it.

  Dennis Overbye

  Winning, Luck, Trying

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• Moon Phase Astrology is a valuable resource on a neglected topic. Through the use of descriptive and poetic titles, insightful text, and inspiring historic quotes, Raven Kaldera illuminates the subtle differences of the often forgotten Moon phases through the twelve zodiac signs. A must read for those walking the path of the Moon.

  Christopher Penczak

  Moon, Zodiac, Ravens

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• Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it.

  Ashley Judd

  Girl, Integrity, Boys

  "Body Image: Ashley Judd Calls for an End to Body Snarking--Will You Take Her Challenge?" by Sarah Jio, www.glamour.com. April 11, 2012.

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• Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity of either of its parts alone. Like rhubarb and strawberries, apple pie and cheese, roast pork and sage, the two tastes and textures meld together into the sort of subtle transcendental oneness that we once fantasized would be our experience when we finally found the ideal mate.

  John Thorne

  Two, Oneness, Apples

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