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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

The Democrats have been talking about the culture of corruption for some time. We don't have all the details yet, but these seem to be serious situations. Nevadans deserve better from their elected officials.

I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.

We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.

Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.

Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a logical way of arguing.

As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we dont understand. Theres a lot of work that we can do on scales that we do understand, and there is actually a finite size that I can associate with a super massive black hole.

The crimes that were committed were unspeakably heinous. And the details about the (ordeal) that are emerging each day in media accounts are increasingly disturbing.

We'll talk about some of the infrastructure questions that we think people would like more information on, details of why the project would be good, background information on the company, conceptual information on what we think the property might look like, how we'll go about getting public input on the design so that it's compatible with the area, those kinds of things.

What we suggest is that they meet them beforehand to make sure that everything is OK - they might want to check insurance details for instance.

The smaller the detail the greater the value.

I'm obsessively detail-oriented.

There are certain things in there that no one else would recognize, really. I see details of my life that I didn't even intend to put in when I was doing the work. For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in The Death-Ray is based on somebody I went to high school with.

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

There’s no romance in the details [of touring] anymore for me. But as soon as we’re walking onstage and until we walk off after the encore, I feel totally alive and completely satisfied with my work.

I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.

As an actor, you can have your own backstory and prepare all the details that you need to know for your character.

When you aren't sure what it is you hate or why you even hate it, it's hard to hold onto the details...you just hold on to the feelings.

He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak or weep, still they project those signals of signification we instantly recognize as language.

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.

When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.

I learned everything I ever need to know about questioning artful dodgers by covering the most artful of them all, Ronald Reagan. For Reagan, performance was as much a part of governing as understanding the details of the federal budget.

Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.

My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict....

This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.

Obviously I have a bit of an awareness because I go to the internet like everybody else but I don't get too involved in the details of those conversations just because it can hurt you if you stumble on something that's not nice.

I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

We understood these flows in a general way, but the details were unclear, so we could not use them to make predictions before.

We're still working out the details on whose case is moving forward first. Ours is probably the most serious of the two.

We're trying to recreate the fine details using more of a Woodland design and less of a corporate one. The building's color palette should reflect earth tones and less competing colors like yellow, blue and red. Colors should complement each other. We don't want to be loud.

We obviously want to get details about this before we know what to do.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

We are working out the final details of the contract and when that is finished I will join them.

We are working on the details of the agreement, which may or may not be finalized in the next 24 hours.

We can't provide any details on the number of searches for stock quotes but can tell you that we have had a lot of user demand for more in-depth financial information. This was one of our most requested features by our users last year.

We contest all the details of the report.

We confirm that we were approached to look into the possibility of helping the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to finance the importation of fuel for that country. No further details are available at this stage. Zimbabwe is a major trading partner of South Africa, and cross-border financing of this kind takes place on a regular basis in a wide variety of product areas, from maize to railway equipment.

We don't want to get into the details of what he shared with us.

We have been requesting for details of accounting transactions but have not got satisfactory answers.

We have been in contact with the company and have requested a meeting as soon as possible to discuss the details of this prospective purchase. We want to ensure that all of the two companies' facilities remain open and operating.

When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there with her, sensing the cold grit under her instep. The details are what matter - they are the experience.

We will give the opportunity to individuals and companies with genuine information on political corruption to come forward with the details

We will find out the details and deal with it as we do with all other claims and lawsuits against Michael.

We will deal with the matter in accordance with the radio law after hearing the details about Softbank's business plan.

There is a consistency of femininity and glamour which sort of pulls the two together. I think both the '50s and '60s are wonderful because they are very pared-down. It's minimal and very chiseled. All the little details play an important role, like scalloped edges, belts, the little hip-hugger pants and the little sweater, combined together with swim wear.

We thought the Water Quality Control division ... indicated a willingness to examine the details of the (permitting) program, and that means (we have) an opportunity to work with them. We think we ought to explore those (details) before going to court.

We got information gradually as the details came out and people understood what had happened and how it was affecting the country and the rest of the world.

trying to fit the president's details into our principles, and it's a very difficult fit to be made. But I think we can get there.

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

When you look at the details on the positive revision, it's a fairly robust figure. The consumer is continuing to drive a lot of the growth that we're expecting in the first quarter.

We need to communicate to consumers in a new way, in a voice that's very different from what they expect, ... The text of the first ad details the company's long journey on the longest road in the world -- 'The Road to Redemption.'

We welcome the fact that he (Newell) has said that he is willing to provide names and details of people who have breached the rules. If he provides us with evidence we will investigate fully.

We welcome Sports Capital Partners' interest and we look forward to working out the details of an agreement that we hope will benefit all involved, including the team and the city of St. Louis.

First is the price tag - it's huge, and the financing details are fairly complex. People are going to want to know how realistic is it that you are going to get this money.

But the more information that comes out, the more explicable and human historical events become. The details make the story real.

The governor's looking for a success, and the voters aren't going to measure a success by the size of the bond. The details aren't as important as the public image of him having a success.

The governor's commitment is a really big thing for momentum. It also launches our major private fundraising drive. We've asked private fundraisers and foundations to wait for this announcement because it's accompanied by conceptual details of the first facility.

We need to renegotiate the details and get back to the real border,

The graphical editors are important. People don't always understand the different syntax. If you're concentrating on Web services, the goal is to make you productive without worrying about the details of how a WSDL file is put together.

The grand jury indictment being released today details a systematic and calculated plan to damage our country's national security, ... Regan is charged with attempts to sell our intelligence agency's most valuable secrets for the purpose of enriching himself.

We were encouraged by a comment that when the details of the rights are outlined to us, both South Australia and Western Australia should be happy with the outcome. That would suggest it shouldn't be anything less than we have had in the past.

We've had productive discussions with them and we will continue to do so. We elect not to share the details of those discussions.

To not know any integral details of how you might save energy is not unusual: It's more common than not.

We also give ourselves room if the audience isn't quite to our forecast. Until all the details come in, we won't know with certainty, but at this point it looks like we'll make our audience commitments.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has an equal right of freedom and liberty with him.

There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse, which is fun to cover, but I'm convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context.

Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.

Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.

The reason is that the Patent and Trademark Office can deny patents to inventors that publicly provided details of their invention.

There could be even up to 500 people inside. More details will be given later.

The records of whom we choose to call and how long we speak with them can reveal much about our business and personal lives. A careful study of these records may reveal details of our medical or financial life. It may even disclose our physical location. This is a serious concern for undercover police officers and victims of stalking or domestic violence.

We will be reducing the price, though exact details are being worked out.

We will be looking to have an electronic flow of information out of ThinkFolio to TradeSmart, and then back from TradeSmart to ThinkFolio, which will then generate soft trade details into the Icon system, which can then be enriched with settlement details and static data details before those trades get sent via Swift to either HSBC or other third-party custodians that we might use,

This was the last test before the end of the season, so the work we've done here will be very important for the remaining six races. We didn't test any big things, just some small details which are important for us.

This was a disgrace. No details were provided to the executive board. (Toussaint) wants us to discuss the details after Christmas.

What seems to be happening is that people are handing over their cards in shops, garages and restaurants the details are being taken down and then used to buy goods and services, mainly online.

We can only begin our analysis once we have received the details in writing and so far all we have received is the press release.

We cannot divulge details yet and I am yet to consent to any. But if all falls into place, Id like to do a romantic comedy with horror elements thrown into the story.

We don?t reveal a lot of intricate details early in an investigation,

You have to be able to tease those details out.

We thank riders for their patience and forbearance. We will be providing various details regarding the outcome of this strike in the next several days.

We spend less time on speeches and details of the awards. Instead, we celebrate what college kids love more -- the music and the artists.

We've been talking, and we had a more significant discussion (Wednesday). That is why I am willing to say something in a general sense. There are no details to give. We're in great shape, and things worked out really nice.

We tried to pick up on the details and the character of the old building ... but the space is very modern.

We just need to stay together as a team. We need to understand that attention to details makes you win or makes you not win.

We were real encouraged about that. We just have to do better and play better. We don't have to go back to the drawing board or anything like that. It's more about getting on the details and executing our plays that we have. We're right there, we just have to keep going, that's all.

We went back and forth and we could never get the details worked out. When it became obvious that it was not just a state dinner, it was more of a fundraising event, that is the wrong purpose of why we are here.

We went back and forth and we could never get the details worked out.

We will not give details on their identity as long as the investigation is ongoing.

We felt if details were disclosed it would cause embarrassment to the company,

We informed the government and UNITA of the flight details -- the flight path, the time, the number of people on board and the cargo.

We certainly recognize there will be concerns moving to every other year. Every community will still have the same information about the types of toxic releases. They just won't have some of the details in terms of how that particular substance was managed or released.

You do things bit by bit. That's the only way to play something really original, where the details stand out. You're not just showing us a cliched, generic character that you've seen before.