"The truth is in the details."
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"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."
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"Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?"
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"The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail"
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"The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically."
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"The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always fantastic with a significance crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit."
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"I want to encourage you by letting you know that there's hope for you and your situation whatever you are dealing with. God is intimately involved with every detail of your future and His desire is for you to be an overcomer."
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"Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are."
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"I really want to see everything. If it's around me and it's part of my show, I need to be a part of all of it. From the creation of the music, to the surface of the floor, to everyone's hairstyle, to the details with the buttons and the bows and the snaps and the zippers. All of those things!"
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"Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding."
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"It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head."
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"Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person."
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"The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession"
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"Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all."
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"The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming."
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"Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere"
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"Our most exciting discoveries come from studying anomalies. The once-in-1000 occurrence is worth getting detail on."
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"I do not keep up with the details of particle physics."
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"Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail."
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"I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army."
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