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

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

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

Helen Hayes, American Actress

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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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"The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world."

K. Eric Drexler, American Scientist

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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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"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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"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

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"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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"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

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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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"For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breezeBy lakes and sandy shores, beneath the cragsOf ancient mountains, and beneath the clouds,Which image in their bulk both lakes and shoresAnd mountain crags: so shall thou see and hearThe lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy GodUtters, who from eternity doth teachHimself in all, and al things in himselfGreat universal teacher! He shall moldThy spirit and by giving , make it ask."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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

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

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"And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it."

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