Quotes with refinements

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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 to yourself.

  Maxwell Maltz
  American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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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 that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

  Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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• The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

  Winston Churchill
  English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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• You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.

  Tennessee Williams
  American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• refinements
• accompanied
• equilibrium
• barbarous
• instincts
• cruelties

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