"My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults."

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"Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own."

Utada Hikaru, Japanese Musician

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"Caress the detail, the divine detail."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process."

Sidney Sheldon, American Novelist

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"With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film - enormous detail paid to that. I wasn't thinking video, because I didn't know how it was going to turn out."

Alex Winter, American Actor

Detail, Film, Sound, Thinking

"Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture."

Helen Hayes, American Actress

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"In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them."

Michael Behe, American Scientist

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"All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish."

Gustav Mahler, Austrian Composer

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"As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it."

Joshua Lederberg, American Scientist

Detail, Needs, Open

"A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable."

Heather Donahue, American Actress

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"In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv."

Henri Cartier-Bresson, French Photographer

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"This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice."

Cloud

"In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head."

Life

"Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish."

Purpose

"G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati."

Knowledge

"Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind."

History

"But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon."

Religion

"The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men."

Men

"But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents."

Government

"I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati."

World

"Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?"

Man