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«Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.»
Author: Ann Oakley
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Sociologist)
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Keywords:
amazing,
calmer,
exploit,
exploited,
exploiting,
exploits,
grace,
humane,
injure,
intimacies,
intimacy,
kinder,
myriad,
nevertheless,
promising,
quieter,
security,
softer,
sublime,
subtle,
subtler,
The Exploited,
unequalled
«Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer»
Author: Bruce Graham
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Keywords:
affairs,
cats,
computer,
meddle,
meddled,
meddles,
piss,
pisses,
pissing,
subtle,
subtler,
subtlest,
The Affair
«Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.»
Author: Richard Powers
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About:
Science
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Keywords:
condition,
cultivating,
grows,
latest,
masteries,
mastery,
not late,
one-step,
perpetual,
reverence,
reverenced,
reverences,
richer,
science,
subtler,
subtlest,
theory,
The Face,
The Face of
«If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.»
Author: Dale Carnegie
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Keywords:
ADD,
add to,
compliment,
importance,
impression,
indicate,
indicated,
indicating,
subtle,
subtler,
The Impressions
«It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(
Author,
Essayist,
Poet)
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About:
Nature
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Keywords:
air,
changes,
claim,
emanation,
emanations,
forest,
quality,
renewing,
renews,
Something in the air,
subtle,
subtler,
subtlest,
trees,
wearies,
weariest,
weary,
wearying,
wonderfully
«Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(
Author,
General)
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Keywords:
director,
directors,
extremely,
fate,
mysterious,
opponent,
point,
Point of,
soundlessness,
subtle,
subtler,
subtlest,
thereby,
The Director,
the point,
to the point
«Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.»
Author: Buddha
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Keywords:
at will,
bearer,
difficult,
extremely,
guard,
guarded,
on guard,
on your guard,
perceive,
subtle,
subtler,
subtlest,
wander
«Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained»
«Another Boehme with a tougher book / And subtler meanings of what roses say.»
«For the ''superior morality',' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this ''superior morality'' is properly rather an ''inferior criminality',' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(
Essayist,
Historian)
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Keywords:
blindness,
criminality,
inferior,
police,
produced,
properly,
public morality,
public opinion,
subtler,
thankful