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  • J. Willard Marriott It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.
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  • Henry David Thoreau Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Heraclitus Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Ben Folds My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Albert Einstein My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Abbie Hoffman Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Barbara Hepworth One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Alphonse De Lamartine Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
    Alphonse De Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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  • Billy Graham Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology - absolutely.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Ben Shahn Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Harvey S. Firestone Success is the sum of details.
    Harvey S. Firestone
    American businessman
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  • Bernie Sanders The details of what the Fed did were kept secret until a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that I sponsored required the Government Accountability Office to audit the Fed's lending programs during the financial crisis.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Sextus Propertius The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
    Sextus Propertius
    Roman poet (47 - 15)
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  • Arthur Golden This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Beeban Kidron We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multibillion dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Alfred de Vigny What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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