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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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• We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.

  Edward T. Hall

  Life, Thinking, Intelligent

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• ...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain). Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population today - subtle logicians like you - can grasp such nuances. Too bad. The Constitution wasn't meant to be a brain-twister.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Brain, Population

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• Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Links, Wonder, Family Values

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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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• 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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