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• I sought to reform minstrelsy among refined people by making words suitable to their taste, instead of the trashy and really offensive words which belong to some songs of that order. ... Some of my songs should be performed in a pathetic, not a comic style.

  Stephen Foster

  Song, Order, People

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• A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations

  Warren G. Bennis

  Business, Passion, Understanding

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• You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.

  Della Reese

  Ghetto, Kind, Born

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• The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.

  Mary Pickford

  Simplicity, Way, Silent

  "Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood". Book by Eileen Whitfield, 1997.

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• The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.

  Chris Cleave

  Dream, Oil, Rude

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

  Jose Saramago

  Reading, Book, Home

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• How did Don Jackson influence the field of family therapy? How did Watts influence the steam engine? He made it. Others have refined the steam engine into a better, more efficient machine. I'd say that is what Don did for family therapy, he established the discipline. Others have gone on to refine it.

  Richard Fisch

  Discipline, Gone, Machines

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• The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined.

  George Saunders

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

  "This Week in Fiction: George Saunders" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. October 4, 2012.

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• As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined.

  Isabella Beeton

  Art, Civilization, Rude

  Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble (2008). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition”, p.57, Oxford University Press

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• Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

  Laurence Sterne

  Motivational, Forgiveness, Brave

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

  John Sununu

  Art, Wall, War

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• The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

  Paul Tournier

  Mind, Vulnerable, Subtle

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• In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what baloney. Markets - and the other great modernist cornucopian tools - are magnificent wealth generating machines, built ad-hoc, through trial and error, constantly fine-tuned and refined, tinkered, adjusted.

  David Brin

  Errors, Law, Trial And Error

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• Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Enlightenment, Body

  "Inspire! What Great Leaders Do" by Lance Secretan, (p. 45), 2004.

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• The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.

  Andrew Weil

  Weight, Carbohydrates, Well Being

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• How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Savages, Manners, Concealed

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.397, Vintage

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• One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

  Thomas Mann

  Clever, Stupid, Men

  Thomas Mann (1953). “The magic mountain: Der Zauberberg”, Vintage

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• The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spiritual, Punishment, Dangerous

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus”, p.29, 谷月社

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• He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

  Arthur Balfour

  Funny, Art, Book

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• In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mind, Elements, Body

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• The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold.

  James Buchan

  Cities, People, Toil

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• There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.

  Georg Buchner

  Christ, Crude, Epicurean

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

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• We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Eye, Men, Presence Of Mind

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.184, Transaction Publishers

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• So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see.

  Alice Cooper

  Play, Cities, Stage Performance

  Interview with Mike Quigley, www.mjq.net. September 1969.

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• The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

  Robert Delaunay

  Eye, Mind, Consciousness

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