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• There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

  Alfred Einstein

  Struggle, Animal, Men

  Alfred Einstein (1962). “Mozart, His Character, His Work”, p.3, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• So, I kind of rather was hoping that people thought it would have a nice mixture of different topics and it also takes in the fact that I've had two children recently.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Nice, Two

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• From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.

  Janet Frame

  Memories, Darkness Within, Light

  Janet Frame (1998). “The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

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• Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Grace, Formidable

  "Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes".

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• No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Insanity, Soul

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

  Umberto Eco

  Stupid, Mad, Four

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• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

  Ramakrishna

  Believe, World, Make Believe

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the back. I like that mixture.

  Norman Reedus

  Angel, Interesting, Devil

  "The Walking Dead: Norman Reedus Talks Season 3 And Starring In The Upcoming Video Game". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. October 23, 2012.

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• The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Pain, Ignorance

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1990). “On The Gods and Other Essays”

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• Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Baseball, War

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• Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the
  others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Choices, Degrees

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• Some people never learn the art of compromise. Everything is either black or white. They do no recognize, or will not concede, that the equally important color gray is a mixture of black and white.

  Waite Phillips

  Art, Black And White, Color

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• The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Civilization, Interesting, Salt

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• We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.

  Paul Valery

  Hate, Mean, Self

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• I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

  Roger Moore

  Realist, Idealist

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• Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

  Northrop Frye

  Business, Advertising, Flattery

  Northrop Frye (1976). “The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance”, p.167, Harvard University Press

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• Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Language, Statements

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• What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Motivational, Success, Work

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• The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

  John Locke

  Children, Blessing, Men

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• He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Love, Courage, Strong

  "The Christian Herald", Vol. 92, p. 72, 1969.

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• I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

  Herbert Croly

  Optimism, Literature, Host

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Courage, Bravery

  John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

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• Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

  Katarina Witt

  Sports, Art, Skating

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• An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict

  Bridget Riley

  Artist, Conflict, Made

  Piet Mondrian, Bridget Riley, Haags Gemeentemuseum (1997). “Mondrian: nature to abstraction : from the Gemeentemuseum, the Hague”, Tate Gallery Pubn

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• Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Envy, Justice

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1465, Delphi Classics

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