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• Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Art, Children, Home

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Delicacy, Elegance, Produce

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• The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Diversity, Progress

  Founding address of New York Society for Ethical Culture, May 15, 1876.

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• Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.

  Jim Rohn

  People, Trying, Sophisticated

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 09, 2017

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• America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  America, Delicacy, Coarse

  "Charles Dickens". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1906.

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• It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Real, Achieve, Vulgar

  Lawrence Durrell, Earl G. Ingersoll (1998). “Lawrence Durrell: Conversations”, p.35, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Steps, Construction, Program

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• To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

  Raymond Queneau

  Party, Hero, Character

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• You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

  Stephen Daldry

  Theatre, Excess, Youth

  "Nothing is the hardest thing to do". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2003.

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• Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Fall, Holiday, Sea

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• Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest in the flesh.

  Herrick Johnson

  Wickedness, Flesh, Christ

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

  Samuel Johnson

  People, Simplicity, Bears

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.114

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• Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout
  The false refinements that would keep her out.

  Horace

  Environment, Force, Turns

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.373, Delphi Classics

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• Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Opportunity, Yale, Democratic Ideals

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• Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Crush, Mistake, Believe

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• Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Delicacy, Comparison

  "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims". No. 131, 1665 - 1678.

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• Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim that ours is the era of individualism. Ours is merely a more poignant repetition of the phenomenon of all history: every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass. Today, as ever, the few are misunderstood, hounded, imprisoned, tortured, and killed.

  Emma Goldman

  Religious, Men, Silence

  Emma Goldman (1983). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Schocken

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• A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Travel, Admirable, Pilgrimage

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.46

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• Every young woman should dress well, that is, neatly, tastefully, modestly, whether she be rich or poor. Conspicuous dressing is vulgar. True refinement avoids anything showy and flashy: it never dresses better than it can afford, and yet it is always well dressed, even in simple muslin or plain calico.

  J.R. Miller

  Simple, Rich Or Poor, Dresses

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• I want to bring softness and refinement to an urban, feminine wardrobe and to help the woman show her character and individuality through her unique clothes.

  Catherine Malandrino

  Character, Unique, Clothes

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• Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Aroma, Christianity, Delicate

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• Tea with us became more than an idealisation of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life. The beverage grew to be an excuse for the worship of purity and refinement, a sacred function at which the host and guest joined to produce for that occasion the utmost beatitude of the mundane.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Art, Drinking, Tea

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.21, Tuttle Publishing

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• So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk envolved in choosing the profesión. It is a fact of life that writers have always and with due consideration and great pleasure spit in the soup of the high and mighty. That is what makes the history of literature analogous to the development and refinement of censorship.

  Gunter Grass

  Risk, Complaining, Development

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• The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

  Winston Churchill

  Science, Age, Stones

  1942 Speech, 26 Mar, in devastated war-time London.

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• A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose. Within this definition there can be no vain ornamentation or superfluity, but the part of beauty is nonetheless great-in ideal choice of material, in visual refinement, and in the rational elegance of things intended for use.

  Eliot Noyes

  Organization, Choices, Design

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