"Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with."
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"The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything was then."
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"Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work."
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"Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . ."
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"I don't have to figure out why or how or when. God has a plan, and I'm committed to it. That commitment frees me from having to worry about the details."
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"The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo."
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"No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to be foreseen. In one's imagining one passes over them and hasty as one is doesn't notice that they are missing. But realities are slow and indescribably detailed."
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"First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little."
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"Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better."
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"I love intimate details like lingerie, something like a gorgeous silk stocking or exquisite slipper."
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"We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details."
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"Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail."
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""Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up and realize he had been describing the examiner's reflection."
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"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail."
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"Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle."
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"There is no magic in magic, it's all in the details."
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"Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details."
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"I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details."
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"Everything is important- that success is in the details."
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"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details."
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