Subtle Quotes - Page 40

• Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

  George Eliot

  Coarse, Impression, Mediums

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.300

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• Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has become the truth to you. A lie that can be blown away with the real truth. It just takes time to unwind the atheist mental conditioning. The truth is out there. Outside of atheist dogma lies the truth!

  Vladimir Lenin

  Atheist, Real, Lying

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• The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of a sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Moral Fiber, Welfare Programs

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• I like bringing little subtle complexities to a character. It's all about the subtext. No one can really describe or fully know another human being, even if they get a hook on them. It's more about instinctively knowing whether you like somebody or not.

  Ray Stevenson

  Character, Knowing, Hook

  Source: collider.com

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• Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

  Russell Kirk

  Civilization, Intellectual, Together

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• It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

  Herman Melville

  Whales, Silent, Caught

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.268

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• The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Men, Devil

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• I think in my twenties I tended to think of all people as sort of more or less alike. In now think that people are really different in all these subtle ways that are very important.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, People, Important

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• Walden - all his books, indeed - are packed with subtle, conflicting, and very fruitful discoveries. They are not written to prove something in the end. They are written as the Indians turn down twigs to mark their path through the forest. He cuts his way through life as if no one had ever taken that road before, leaving these signs for those who come after, should they care to see which way he went.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Taken, Cutting

  Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918”, Harcourt

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• There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness."

  Sylvester Stallone

  Kindness, Age, Weakness

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Joy, Enlightenment, Littles

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• I've always loved subtle acting, and that's what I got to do.

  Kay Panabaker

  Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.

  John Lennon

  Important, Males, Way

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• As we build systems that are more and more complex, we make more and more subtle but very high-impact mistakes. As we use computers for more things and as we build more complex systems, this problem of unreliability and insecurity is actually getting worse, with no real sign of abating anytime soon.

  Matt Blaze

  Real, Mistake, Impact

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Clipper took a relatively simple problem, encryption between two phones, and turned it into a much more complex problem, encryption between two phones but that can be decrypted by the government under certain conditions and, by making the problem that complicated, that made it very easy for subtle flaws to slip by unnoticed. I think it demonstrated that this problem is not just a tough public policy problem, but it's also a tough technical problem.

  Matt Blaze

  Simple, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own veils of self-deceit, Mother perceives in herself untold abysses of cruelty as subtle as it is refined.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Children, Rip

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• Weightless in water, swift as the wind, Subtle of purpose - a feather blown - I go with my oarsmen where they will, My beautiful body and theirs all one.

  Mark Van Doren

  Beautiful, Wind, Water

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• Until you have bred dogs and have drawn and painted them, it is difficult to realize that no two are identical in conformation. You need do no more than gun for a day over two of them to recognize that each is an individual. It requires the intimacy of daily living with a dog to know the subtle quality of his mind, the ham-smell of his ears, and that his wet nose in your mouth tastes salty.

  George Bird Evans

  Friendship, Dog, Gun

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• We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Change, Influence

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.489, New York Review of Books

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• [A] re-elected McConnell, with a Republican majority, would, he says, emulate his model of majority leadership - the 16 years under a Democrat, Montana'€™s Mike Mansfield. He, like McConnell, had a low emotional metabolism but a subtle sense of the Senate's singular role in the nation's constitutional equilibrium.

  George Will

  Emotional, Years, Roles

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• For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Art, Justice, Grace

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• The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.

  William Howard Taft

  Character, Personality, Masonic

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• Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.

  Edward Tufte

  Simplicity, Distinction, Clear

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• Above all there's a love which is real, the ultimate love. We merge not only physically, but mentally and spiritually, in arc-line, aura and subtle body. We amalgamate with each other. That is real love.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Real

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• You have no sensitivity that your soul shall leave in the subtle body and that your subtle body is as sophisticated as anything in the universe can be. So unless you produce in yourself elegance, grace, sophisticatedness in your mind, manners and attitude, and unless you come from the infinite altitude, and ascend to that altitude, you cannot descend in love. The higher is your being, the deeper is the love.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Attitude

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