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The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made. (Quote by - Norman McLaren)

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art. (Quote by - Max Beerbohm)

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain. (Quote by - Holly Near)

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit. (Quote by - Martin Feldstein)

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality. (Quote by - Patricia Meyer Spacks)

My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person. (Quote by - Mike Tyson)

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy. (Quote by - Mario Puzo)

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country. (Quote by - Larry Craig)

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity. (Quote by - Lee Child)

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering. (Quote by - Julius Gordon)

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue. (Quote by - Clifford Geertz)

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn. (Quote by - Peter Thomson)

Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity. (Quote by - Graham Nelson)

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity. (Quote by - Edouard Manet)

When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass. (Quote by - David Sanborn)

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth. (Quote by - Neal Boortz)

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion. (Quote by - Naguib Mahfouz)

I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it. (Quote by - Shemar Moore)

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears. (Quote by - Temple Grandin)

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. (Quote by - Robert Penn Warren)

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests. (Quote by - Johannes Rau)

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. (Quote by - Arthur Rimbaud)

Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part. (Quote by - Jeffrey Wright)

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