368 Quotes About Details

  • Author Douglas Adams
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    It is most gratifying," it said, "that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging with your ship are part of a special service we extend to all of our most enthusiastic clients, and the fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a courtesy detail. We look forward to your custom in future lives ... thank you.

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  • Author Fred Armisen
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    I like it when people are driven. I love that in any field of work, in architecture or whatever. Like Lorne Michaels - he pays attention to every detail.

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  • Author Henry Adams
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    The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

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  • Author Joyce Appleby
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    Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism.

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  • Author Laurie Anderson
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    Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.

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  • Author Mahmud Abbas
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    There are lands in eastern and northern Gaza still under occupation, ... We need to renegotiate the details and get back to the real border.

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  • Author Michael Ancram
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    It has been three years since the government published details of the options regarding the regulation of private military companies, yet ministers have failed to find a solution.

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  • Author Samuel Alexander
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    Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

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