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«Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are.»
«I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the crack»
«You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.»
Author: William Tecumseh Sherman
(General)
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curses, harsher, pour, pour out, qualify, refine, sacrifices
«Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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Manners
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barbarize, breathe in, debase, debased, debases, debasing, exalt, insensible, operation, purify, refine, soothe, uniform, vex, vexes, vexing
«One should engage himself in self study to refine his intelligence and to acquire knowledge. »
Author: Atharva Veda
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refine
«It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ship's keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elemental purity of the curve of the human»
«Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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features, meanness, refine, sensuality
«Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.»
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