Refinements Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts…
— Albert Camus
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Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it.
— Miyamoto Musashi
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The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which owe their origin…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over…
— Maxwell Maltz
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I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known…
— Michael Faraday
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The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of working…
— Martin Puryear
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I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift…
— Lee De Forest
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The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
— Winston Churchill
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Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.
— Alex Grey
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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for…
— Hannah Arendt
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Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy!…
— Jane Austen
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In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard's…
— Anne Rice
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There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that…
— Roald Dahl
Who Wrote These Refinements Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Refinements Quotes as follows: