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Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
Control
Josh Billings

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The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
Communication
Peter F. Drucker

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Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
Conquest
John Dryden

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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Truth
Albert Einstein

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Success is the sum of details.
Success
Harvey S. Firestone

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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
Conscience
Michel Foucault

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The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
Detail
Edward Gibbon

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In a major matter no details are small.
Detail
Paul De Gondi

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Retail is detail.
Design
James Gulliver

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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Detail
Heraclitus

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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Opinions
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
Publicity
Thomas E. Lawrence

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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
Dogs
Fran Lebowitz

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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Funerals
Harold Macmillan

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The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
Argument
Jawaharlal Nehru

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One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Will Rogers

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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Victory
Jean-Paul Sartre

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Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Gossip
Publilius Syrus

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
Knowledge
Henry David Thoreau

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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Acting and Actors
Spencer Tracy

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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Knowledge
Mark Twain

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Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't.
Lies and Lying
Source Unknown

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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Thoughts and Thinking
Alfred North Whitehead

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It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
Things and Little Things
John Wooden

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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Sleep
Virginia Woolf

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun