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Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008. -- Bill Gross
Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass. -- Ovid
Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is immeasurably sad. -- Luke Davies
Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly. -- Gavin Bryars
All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies. -- David Attenborough
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A testimony of the truth of the gospel does not come the same way to all people. Some receive it in a unique, life-changing experience. Others gain a testimony slowly, almost imperceptibly until, one day, they simply know. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become. -- Brooke Foss Westcott
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
How imperceptibly the first springing takes place! -- Henry David Thoreau
Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave -- Blaise Pascal
God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts. -- Gottfried Leibniz
God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous. -- Vincent de Paul
There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride. -- Joseph Addison
Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold. -- Alain de Botton
It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty. -- Richard Preston
Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward. -- Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad. -- Euripides
Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other. -- William Benton Clulow
Even in the dark times between experimental breakthroughs, there always continues a steady evolution of theoretical ideas, leading almost imperceptibly to changes in previous beliefs. -- Steven Weinberg
I stabbed you. With a massive sword. You caught on fire." His lips twitched, almost imperceptibly. "Okay, so maybe our problems aren't like other couples. -- Cassandra Clare
I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage. -- Caitlin Thomas
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The affairs of God are accomplished little by little and almost imperceptibly. The Spirit of God is neither violent nor hasty. He does all things in His time. -- St. Vincent
The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it. -- Elizabeth Drew
Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city. -- Neil Gaiman
Privacy is rarely lost in one fell swoop. It is usually eroded over time, little bits dissolving almost imperceptibly until we finally begin to notice how much is gone. -- Daniel J. Solove
A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it. -- Giovanni Ruffini
The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity are adopted with design. -- Samuel Johnson
America is a remarkable place in that social attitudes change almost imperceptibly, and then you wake up the next day and they've changed. But they've been changing all the time. -- Condoleezza Rice
A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable. -- Sonia Johnson
The Chinese five-spice works really well in the quantity that I used. It makes it almost imperceptibly just a little bit sweeter without making it really sweet or really even that Asian flavored. -- Mario Batali

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