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"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."
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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."

"There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing."

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

"You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion."

"Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah."

"The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents."
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."

"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."

"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
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