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• I'm more interested in what I'm going to leave behind me than in making a big hit record. I've refined what I do for a long time. If getting better at it means it goes over the heads of those who only wanted to party, then so be it.

  Tom Petty

  Party, Mean, Long

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• Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Agents, Politics

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• The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined.

  Lars Leksell

  Brain, Tasks, Tools

  Lars Leksell (1971). “Stereotaxis and Radiosurgery: An Operative System”

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• It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

  William Empson

  Knows, Seems

  William Empson (2000). “The complete poems”, Lane, Allen

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• A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Artist, Expression, Style

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• It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

  Alice James

  Loss, Vulgarity Is, Trials

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long run life will succeed only in a life-giving environment, and we can no longer afford unnecessary sacrifices of living space and natural landscape to 'progress.'

  Stewart Udall

  Running, Moving, Sacrifice

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• I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

  Randy Johnson

  Determination, Ideas, Mechanic

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• Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

  George Canning

  Men, Mars, Creation

  'The Progress of Man' (1799) l. 55

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• I think that we have refined greatly our notions of sovereignty in the EU. Its members consider themselves to be sovereign governments, but they have ceded a part of their sovereignty to the Union level, and their sovereignty is now penetrated by EU law.

  Mary Robinson

  Thinking, Government, Law

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• The heart is refined, spiritual, and heavenly by nature - guard it; do not overburden it, do not make it earthly, be temperate to the utmost in food and drink, and in general in bodily pleasures. The heart is the temple of God. 'If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy' (I Cor. 3:17).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Spiritual, Heart

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• Don't be defined by your failures, be refined by them.

  Max Lucado

  Defined

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• A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

  Neel Burton

  Teacher, Ambition, Men

  FaceBook post by Neel Burton from Jan 06, 2014

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• I'm not musically trained and I'm not all these other things. I'm creative with a keyboard and a drum machine, but I can't really make these perfect minimal musical executions - all the things that would be nice with all these refined poems.

  Doseone

  Nice, Perfect, Creative

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.

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• I am NOT a belly dancer. I have never been one, and never will be. What I do is not what Hollywood vulgarly calls 'belly dance', but it's art. I have traveled the world to prove that my dance is not a dance of the belly but a refined, artistic dance full of tradition, of dreaming and beauty. Oriental dance is primarily an expressive dance; in that resides the beauty.

  Nadia Gamel

  Dream, Art, Dancer

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• But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There's no difference.

  Saadat Hasan Manto

  Beautiful, Summer, Winter

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• ...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

  John Herschel

  Nature, Delicacy, Architecture

  Sir John Frederick William Herschel, William Whewell, George Henry Lewes, Hermann von Helmholz, James Clerk Maxwell (1996). “The Origins of Modern Philosophy of Science, 1830-1914: Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy”

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• Tira: Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about. . . . Say listen you. A better dame than you once called me a liar and they had to sew her up in twelve different places. You're lucky I'm a little more refined than I used to be. And if you was as much a lady as I am, you'd get out of here before I get real sore. Alicia: You haven't a streak of decency in you. Tira: I don't show my good points to strangers. I'll trouble you to scram.

  Mae West

  Brother, Real, Liars

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• I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes.

  P. T. Barnum

  Thinking, Class, Giving

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• The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  School, Army, Government

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

  I. L. Peretz

  People, Vegetarian

  "Taanis Gedanken". Alle Verk, xii. 77, 1896.

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• For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.

  Michael Gambon

  Children, Cowboy, Thinking

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• The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Deterioration, Gone, Before Marriage

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• An extensive empire must be supported by a refined system of policy and oppression; in the centre, an absolute power, prompt in action and rich in resources; a swift and easy communication with the extreme parts; fortifications to check the first effort of rebellion; a regular administration to protect and punish; and a well-disciplined army to inspire fear, without provoking discontent and despair.

  Edward Gibbon

  Communication, Army, Effort

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.302, Cosimo, Inc.

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• This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.

  Stevie Smith

  Behinds, Bosoms

  "This Englishwoman" l. 1 (1937)

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