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“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.” Isaac Asimov, Foundation
“English is the largest human tongue; its variety, subtlety, and irrational idiomatic complexity make it possible to say things in English which cannot be said in any other language.” Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
“On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.” Linus Torvalds
“Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning. ” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.” Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
“Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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