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Nuance

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Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman

"You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself"

Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson Actress, Screenwriter, Author

"We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives."

Woody Allen
Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer

"There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not."

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer
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"Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'"

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"And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it, and he probably never would."

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