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• No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science or psychology, can ever take the place of one's sensitiveness to the life of the earth. This is the beginning and the end of a person's true education.

  John Cowper Powys

  Art, Psychology, Literature

  "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 175, 1936.

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• I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring other brushes - all in my never-ending quest for the perfect brush.

  James Nares

  Years, Perfect, Design

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• The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Sight

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• An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

  Adrienne Rich

  Violent, Process, Honorable

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. But who cares about painting? What we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in Brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers.

  Chris Martin

  Beautiful, Girl, War

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. November 2013.

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• Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Time, Bad Ass, Judging

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• But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind the moral. ... We can see quite well that our opinions of what is noble and good, our moral valuations, are powerful levers where action is concerned; but we must begin by refining these opinions and independently creating for ourselves new tables of values.

  Georg Brandes

  Powerful, Voice, Creating

  "An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism" by Georg Brandes, 1889.

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• God hates the LUKEWARM GOSPEL OF HALF-TRUTHS that is now spreading over the Globe. This gospel says, 'Just believe in Jesus and you'll be Saved. There's nothing more to it.' It ignores the Whole Counsel of God, which speaks of Repenting from former Sins, of Taking up your Cross, of being conformed to the Image of Christ by the refining work of the Holy Spirit. It is totally silent about the Reality of Hell and an After-Death Judgment.

  David Wilkerson

  Death, God, Faith

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• An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
  It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation.
  It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
  It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

  Adrienne Rich

  Love, Self, Two

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.104, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Qigong is the art and science of refining and cultivating internal energy.

  Ken Cohen

  Art, Qigong, Energy

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• When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.

  Epictetus

  Moving Forward, Creative, Feelings

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• Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 17, 2017

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• We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life.

  Sheryl Crow

  Life, Thinking, Growth

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• When you go through difficult times...recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges.

  Joel Osteen

  Rough Edges, Growth, Difficult Times

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• Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Nice, Party, Learning

  'Retaliation' (1774) l. 29 (on Edmund Burke)

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• Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it to grasp the Thisness (Haecceitas) of what is before them. Thinking is like a Stradivarius that has more potential variations in how it is played than any human can finitely perform or capture.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Thinking, People

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• What oil companies don't want you to know is that refineries use a huge amount of electricity in refining gasoline. And that's usually not even figured into reports about gas cars' overall energy use.

  Chris Paine

  Oil, Car, Energy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm a free spirit. A spirit that evolves. I'm a diamond. I'm just refining it. Polishing it. Glossing it up.

  Simeon Rice

  Free Spirit, Evolve, Diamond

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• How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Fire, Heat, Endure

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• We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Cheating, Art, Lying

  Ambrose Bierce (1909). “The Shadow on the Dial: And Other Essays”

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• From the starch-heavy 'food pyramid' to ethanol fuel, the government adopts programs not because they are right but because they gains votes, money or political power or solve problems that politics has already created, such as silos full of subsidized wheat or a shortage of gasoline due to the maze of controls on refining.

  Robert Prechter

  Government, Pyramids, Political

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• There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, Animal, Culture

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• We all say data is the next white oil. [Owning the oil field is not as important as owning the refinery because what will make the big money is in refining the oil. Same goes with data, and making sure you extract the real value out of the data.]

  Maurice Levy

  Real, Data, Oil

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The unsupervised learning is the way most people will learn in the future. You have this model of how the world works in your head and you're refining it to predict what you think is going to happen in the future.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, People, World

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Art, World, Materials

  "A Capsule Course in Black Poetry Writing". Book by Gwendolyn Brooks, 1975.

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