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Tag Name "Slight" (267)

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In Japanese and Italian, the response to [How are you?] is I'm fine, and you? In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by Not so good.
David Sedaris
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Part of the function of memory is to forget the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.
Christopher Hitchens
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I love you dammit.she brushed her lips teasingly against his.How much? He made a slight sound, as if the soft kiss had affected him intensely.Without limit.Beyond forever.
Lisa Kleypas
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General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.
C. V. Wedgwood
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As I get older, I fear aging less because I realize it's the inevitable, but I definitely have a slight fear of aging.
Jacqui Holland
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I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.
Siegbert Tarrasch
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...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.
Robert M. Hutchins
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And it was there that I saw the most appealing creature in the whole shop. He had a slight chink out of one foot and his 'topknot' was missing (a 'topknot' is on the top of a dragon's head and looks a bit like a shark's fin) but I bought him in an instant.
Chris d'Lacey
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When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with slight permutations. To really not know what is going to happen next is a hard thing.
James Gunn
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In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.
George Crabbe
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You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.
James Cook
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Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.
Richard Flanagan
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To revive a man is no slight thing.
Nachman of Breslov
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It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.
Epictetus
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Labor, but slight not meditation meditate, but slight not labor.
Confucius
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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
Christopher Marlowe
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The reason [drummers] call things unison, and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat it's so slight that they call it unison, but it's not unison.
Miles Davis
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To emphasize style is to slight content, or to introduce an attitude which is neutral with respect to content.
Susan Sontag
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My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.
Balthus
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But the extraordinary insight which some persons are able to gain of others from indications so slight that it is difficult to ascertain what they are, is certainly rendered more comprehensible by the view here taken.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
Eric Hoffer
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In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.
Keith Sweat
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