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"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."
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"Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture."

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

"Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as why's, you can love those parts too, and it's a love at once more complicated and more complete."

"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail."
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"The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue."

"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."

"The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it."

"Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language."

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