Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected."
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Subtle
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Randy Harrison
Actor
"It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them."
Billy Wilder
Film Director, Screenwriter
"The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer."
William Wordsworth
Poet
"Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time."
James A. Baldwin
Writer
"But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power."
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"There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality."
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"Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable."
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"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?"
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"Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness."
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"Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all hueman diseases. Fear kills dreams!"
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"Associations are both subtle and powerful."
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"Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty."
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"Faith is the subtle chain Which binds us to the infinite."
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"But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine."
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"Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious."
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"We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken."
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"Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it."
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"Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct."
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"Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death"
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"Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time"
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"One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin."
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"The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is."
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"The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity."
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"We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves."
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"The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other."
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