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• It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Believe, Evil, Has Beens

  "The Shorter Leibniz Texts". Book by Gottfried Leibniz, 2006.

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• There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Happiness, Sin

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• There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Genius, Madness

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• He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Determination, Power, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.71, Harvard University Press

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• If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Doe, Moral

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.86, Penguin

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• The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Race, World, Navigation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.22

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• Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.

  Bette Midler

  Life, Perfect, Cooking

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• The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers in order to receive a clean and abundant supply of water from reservoirs in the mountains. A much likelier outcome is that they will be drinking an ever stronger mixture of sewage and mine acid and mud and cropspray and various other defecations of the industrial paradise.

  Wendell Berry

  Drinking, Silly, Army

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• You are not exposed to one chemical at a time, but a complex mixture of chemicals that changes day by day, hour by hour, depending on where you are and the environment you are in... In the United States alone it is estimated that over 72,000 different chemicals are used regularly. Two thousand five hundred new chemicals are introduced annually-and of these, only 15 are partially tested for their safety. Not one of the chemicals in use today has been adequately tested for these intergenerational effects that are initiated in the womb.

  Theo Colborn

  Two, Safety, Environmental

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• As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.

  Viola Davis

  Artist, Together, Emotion

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• Initially, terrorism was a certain mixture of politics, economics, and religion. Now, it seems that terrorism is more individual and done to avenge personal grudges. So there are two kinds of terrorism.

  Dalai Lama

  Two, Done, Kind

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

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• I am drawn to the new chart with all of its colorful intricacies as a gourmet must anticipate the details of a feast ... I shall keep them forever. As stunning exciting proof that a proper mixture of science and art is not only possible but a blessed union.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Art, Blessed, Forever

  Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Enemy, Hopeless, Satan

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.369

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• Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.

  V. S. Pritchett

  School, Eye, Games

  "The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers" by Random House, (p. 95), 1980.

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• Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

  Anton Chekhov

  Nature, Strong, Fall

  "A Doctor's Visit". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• A line is an involuntary combination of people who are simultaneously irritated with one another and focused on a single, common circle of interests and goals. This leads to a mixture of rivalry, hostility, and collective sentiment, a constant readiness to close ranks against a common enemy - anyone who breaks the rules.

  Lidiya Ginzburg

  Circles, People, Goal

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• I'd like to play a mixture of Lucille Ball meets Murphy Brown meets Glenn Close on 'Damages,' to keep a little bit of the darkness in there. I like dark comedy a lot.

  Joelle Carter

  Dark, Play, Balls

  "Joelle Carter Talks JUSTIFIED and Desire to Shoot an Indie Feature in Florida". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2012.

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• Leaders develop their styles as they interact with their constituencies. They move toward the style that seems most effective in dealing with the mixture of elements that make up their constituencies.

  John W. Gardner

  Moving, Leader, Style

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• In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both activities produce a sense of awe and a curious mixture of humility and arrogance in their practitioners. All great scientists are inspired by the subtlety and beauty of the natural world that they are seeking to understand. Each new subatomic particle, every unexpected object, produces delight and wonderment. In constructing their theories, physicists are frequently guided by arcane concepts of elegance in the belief that the universe is intrinsically beautiful.

  Paul Davies

  Beautiful, Humility, Science

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• [The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.

  Morley Safer

  Mind, Gutters, Auntie

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• I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the greatest comedy writer of all time. I think he would make a great addition to The Office staff. If you look through Chekhov plays there is a lot of awkward pauses in there. His mixture of pathos, absurdity, truthfulness and whimsy is just mixed together perfectly.

  Rainn Wilson

  Real, Thinking, Play

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• The mixture of weird textures and organic surfaces creates an interesting dialogue.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Interesting, Texture, Surface

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• Fresh pitsand, however, in spite of all its excellence in concrete structures, is not equally useful in stucco, the richness of which, when the lime and straw are mixed with such sand, will cause it to crack as it dries on account of the great strength of the mixture. But river sand, though useless in "signinum" on account of its thinness, becomes perfectly solid in stucco when thoroughly worked by means of polishing instruments.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Mean, Rivers, Excellence

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter IV, Section 3,

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• While all bodies are composed of the four elements, that is, of heat, moisture, the earthy, and air, yet there are mixtures according to natural temperament which make up the natures of all the different animals of the world, each after its kind.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Animal, Air, Four Elements

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter IV, Section 5,

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• Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, Three, Sometimes

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