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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. ↗

— Ovid

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Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

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Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. ↗

— Robert Hall

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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. ↗

— Rita Dove

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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect. ↗

— Carson McCullers

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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet. ↗

— Yehudi Menuhin

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So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement. ↗

— John Sexton

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The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding. ↗

— Edward Steichen

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