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«Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity»
«I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the ''human figure divine'' but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.»
Author: Edward Weston
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«A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.»
«Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely»
«There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
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«A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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escape from, finely, longs, objective, perception, Personal life, tempered
«In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice»
«Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Fame
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coarsely, finely, hurrah, hurrahs
«You see these fish carved finely in relief by Phidian art? Add water; they will swim»
«A worthy man is still worthy even penniless, a donkey is a donkey even if he is finely saddled.»
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