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To refine

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We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use. Mohamed ElBaradei

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 cracks on the piano keys. Marvin Gaye

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. T. S. Eliot

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. Washington Irving

Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there. Jerry Harrison

[O]ne of the great things about science is it forces us to refine our idea of what's common sense. It forces us to have our beliefs conform to the evidence of reality rather than the other way around. The universe may not be like we'd like it to be, but it doesn't really care. Lawrence M. Krauss

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