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When you live in Beijing for a while, you gain a finely tuned understanding of air.
Evan Osnos / Journalist
Beijing
Finely
Gain
Tuned
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I don't think 'Lootera' is slow paced; it's finely paced for its setting and story.
Vikramaditya Motwane /
Setting
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Our bodies are finely tuned machines, and if our hormone mixtures aren't 'just right', everything goes into disrepair.
Suzanne Somers / Actress
Machines
Bodies
Finely
Tuned
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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.
Reggie Jackson / Baseball Player
Baseball
Littles
Repetition
Swings
Little
After
Finely
Instrument
Swing
Tuned
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I try to swim for 30 minutes and walk for 30 minutes, because if I don't, my finely honed body will slip into its old ways.
Terry Wogan / Television Presenter
Minutes
Old Ways
Swim
Finely
Slip
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My body has finely balanced itself with my gruelling work schedules and if I occasionally get a break, I start missing my shoots.
Sanjeeda Sheikh /
Balanced
Missing
Schedules
Finely
Occasionally
Shoots
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My well-discussed 'paranoia' urges me to believe that some tiny segment of the NSA's parsing algorithm is finely tuned to my voice.
John Mcafee / Computer Programmer
Nsa
Paranoia
Tiny
Urges
Algorithm
Finely
Segment
Tuned
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What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever.
Eoin Colfer / Author
Hook
Peter
Observed
Finely
Pan
Peter Pan
Villains
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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.
Alcaeus / Poet
Opportunity
Men
Cities
Stones
Wall
City
Finely
Houses
Nay
Nor
Walls
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In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balanced moral that one man's meat is another man's poison.
Preston Sturges / Playwright
Balanced
Meat
Moral
Poison
Corrupted
Finely
Reformed
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
Kate Christensen / Novelist
Fancy
Meat
Steam
Toss
Finely
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Espresso, made by steam expressing finely ground coffee, is rich in flavor and aroma and chlorogenic acids, but not very concentrated at all in caffeine.
Chris Kilham / Author
Caffeine
Coffee
Steam
Concentrated
Expressing
Finely
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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.
Charles Dickens / Writer
Parenting
Children
Existence
Expectations
Felt
Injustice
World
Brings
World Children Nothing
Finely
Perceived
Whosoever
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Richmond Fontaine bandleader Willy Vlautin writes songs akin to finely composed short stories set in the diners, bars, casinos, and old hotels of Reno and its environs.
George Pelecanos / Author
Bars
Richmond
Composed
Finely
Hotels
Reno
Short Stories
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Practice, learn the lines, work hard, don't be too respectful. Sometimes we can get too hung up on the fact that the material of the play is very finely wrought language.
Roger Allam /
Hung
Respectful
Finely
Wrought
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I became hooked on 'In Treatment,' which was so finely written and performed. Such a simple idea, and yet it delved into very complex territory with real grace and humanity.
Hattie Morahan / Television Actress
Grace
Hooked
Territory
Treatment
Complex
Finely
Simple Idea
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
Oscar Wilde / Writer
Good Art
Machinery
Mark
Exactly
Finely
Worked
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I feel our life is a miracle, it is finely tuned, computerised and run by one master. You can call him by any name. It is one universal power and hence I would say that God is everywhere.
Poonam Dhillon /
Life God Power
Finely
Hence
Life Is A
Tuned
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Tactics, gameplan and players are all influential in how a team performs but the question is how to manage every individual in your charge and get them to play like a finely tuned orchestra.
Glenn Murray /
Individual
Influential
Manage
Orchestra
Tactics
Charge
Finely
Performs
Question
Tuned
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The nature of racism is that it grinds down the soul of the man more finely than it does the soul of the woman. When you want to conquer a people or subject it, you destroy the male component.
Ruby Dee / Actress
Conquer
Racism
Nature Man Soul
Male
Component
Destroy
Finely
Subject
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We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.
Charles Francis Richter / Seismologist
Categories
Scale
Assigned
Avoid
Finely
Judgments
Medium
Tuned
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I will say one of my favorite Russian side dishes is beet salad. It is dehydrated beets chopped very finely with nuts. It is a great side dish. I would like to try to make this when I get home. The nuts make it!
Sunita Williams / Astronaut
Nuts
Chopped
Dish
Finely
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The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.
Philippe Perrin / Pilot
Jobs
Careers
Character
Discipline
Embrace
Fields
Variety
Wide
Analytical
Blended
Develops
Student
Finely
Specialist
Wide Variety
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I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.
Yami Gautam /
Honey
Milk
My Own
Powder
Rice
Water
Yogurt
Face
Skin
Finely
Ground
Lemon
Mixed
Pack
Treat
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When we have learnt through a period of finely honed training to live in Imaginative Thinking, when we can engage the whole of our being in this Imaginative Thinking, we find that it immerses us in a reality hitherto unknown to us.
Rudolf Steiner / Philosopher
Imaginative
Training
Unknown
Period
Engage
Finely
Hitherto
Learnt
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The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.
James Loeb / Banker
Men
Blind
Eye
Great Men
Littles
Achievements
Added
Aspirations
Finely
Mechanical
Relates
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What we've underestimated is the systemic risk that that very finely tuned system of specialization exposes us to. And so I think we will start to ask whether there are ways that we could build some more robustness into our whole system.
Paul Romer / Economist
Risk
Specialization
Underestimated
Ask
Build
Finely
Start
System
Tuned
Ways
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All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.
Brian Greene / Theoretical Physicist
Language
Mathematics
Numbers
Patterns
Progression
Stars
Arranged
Star
Describe
Finely
Follow
Points
Regular
Tuned
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As any successful mad scientist will tell you, energy ain't free. Popular culture tends to forget this, instead focusing on the destructive capabilities of our finely crafted death rays without noting the massive energy expenditures required to use them.
Kyle Hill /
Death
Destructive
Energy
Expenditures
Forget
Mad
Massive
Popular Culture
Rays
Scientist
Successful
Free
Capabilities
Crafted
Finely
Focusing
Instead
Noting
Popular
Required
Tends
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The reason why I'm not a pop star is I would have hated it. I'll stick to being an artist. I'm not trying not to be commercial; I am just doing what I do. I have finely tuned tastes, and that gets prioritized above everything else. That's just how it is.
Roisin Murphy / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Reason
Above
Star
Commercial
Tastes
Everything Else
Finely
Gets
Pop Star
Stick
Tuned
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Our bodies have a finely tuned, built-in detoxifying system: It's called our liver, and it can detoxify our bodies better than any cleanse or fast without the unpleasantness and danger of muscle cramps, dehydration, and diarrhea associated with artificial cleanses.
Harley Pasternak / Personal Trainer
Artificial
Danger
Diarrhea
Liver
Muscle
Associated
Cleanse
Cramp
Finely
Tuned
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Mugabe had a very strange quality about him. He was dapper. He had the strangest skin - it looks very shiny, but it's not oily. It's stretched very finely over his flesh. His eyes have layers of cyan crystals in them. It was a quiet, dark moment when I took his picture.
Platon /
Crystals
Layers
Quiet
Strange
Picture
Skin
Finely
Shiny
Stretched
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The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string.
Brian Greene / Theoretical Physicist
Atoms
Energy
Ideas
Molecules
Particles
Straightforward
String Theory
Theory
Tiny
Quite
Idea
Central
Examine
Finely
Probe
Piece
Smaller
Something Else
String
Vibrating
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It's no surprise that hackers working for North Korea, Iran's mullahs, Vladimir V. Putin in Russia, and the People's Liberation Army of China have all learned that the great advantage of cyberweapons is that they are the opposite of a nuke: hard to detect, easy to deny, and increasingly finely targeted.
David E. Sanger /
Advantage
Army
China
Deny
Hackers
Iran
Liberation
North Korea
Putin
Russia
Surprise
Opposite
Great Surprise People
Detect
Finely
Great Advantage
Increasingly
North
Targeted
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Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or even comprehend language. They are like finely tuned receivers that pick up much more than is merely said. They are receptive and attuned to every mood, feeling, and change that goes on in people around them.
Theodore Isaac Rubin / Author
Mood
Receptive
Absorb
Attuned
Comprehend
Extremely
Finely
Merely
Perceptive
Pick
Tuned
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The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.
Said Nursi /
Beauty
Attributes
Craftsman
Source
Name
Finely
Manifested
Object
Points
Worked
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