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• The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

  Karel Capek

  Sports, Honesty, Silence

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• If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.

  Alison Krauss

  Color, Trying, Green

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• 'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Real, Grief, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients.

  David Leavitt

  People, Together, Ingredients

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• I got my heel stuck in a drain as I was crossing the street and cars were coming. It was really scary. A girl in heels in New York is a hard combination.

  Sasha Pieterse

  Girl, New York, Car

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving expert performance and sustaining growth in a way that is more sound and more permanent.

  Lucas Papademos

  Thinking, Growth, Sound

  "Cnbc’s Chief International Correspondent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera Speaks With Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos". Interview with Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, www.cnbc.com. January 15, 2012.

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• NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

  Burt Rutan

  Risk, Innovation, Aversion

  "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 01, 2004.

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• My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding and being lucky enough to finally get a shot.

  Busta Rhymes

  Lucky, Enough, Shots

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.

  David A. Siegel

  Obamacare, Would Be, Disaster

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• I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.

  George Saunders

  Creative, Vision, Might

  "On 'Tenth of December': an interview with George Saunders". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2013.

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• In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Differences

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• Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married to artistic banality-or, worse, art compromised on both counts. Neither one will satisfy those who recognize the fundamental necessity of integrity in both faith and art.

  John Walford

  Spiritual, Art, Integrity

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• My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

  Denise Mina

  Class, Parent, Odd

  "Murder she wrote - and plenty of it: Denise Mina on her career". Interview with Peter Guttridge, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

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• Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love.

  John Ralston Saul

  Reality, Desire, Disease

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• As a constellation, theoretical thought circles the concept it would like to unseal, hoping that it may fly open like the lock of a well-guarded safe-deposit box: in response, not to a single key or a single number, but to a combination of numbers

  Theodor Adorno

  Numbers, Keys, Circles

  Theodor Adorno (2003). “Negative Dialectics”, p.163, Routledge

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• I'll tell you something about tough things. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find the way through. On the Food Network they have these shows where cooks have to put a meal together with all these weird ingredients. That's a lot like my life-dealing with things you wouldn't think ever go together. But a good cook can make the best meal out of the craziest combinations.

  Joan Bauer

  Thinking, Together, Way

  Joan Bauer (2011). “Close to Famous”, p.141, Penguin

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• When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Talking, Talking To Someone, Humans

  "Don't drunk text your ex: artist offers a cringe-free alternative" by Leigh Alexander, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2016.

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• I'm an incurable romantic, and 'Casablanca''s one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.

  Ken Adam

  Most Romantic, Incurable Disease, Bergman

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• I feel about 18, but my mind is much more mature now, so it's a perfect combination.

  Oksana Chusovitina

  Perfect, Mind, Mature

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• Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

  Brad Falchuk

  Writing, Character, Actors

  "We're All Gleeks - 10 Questions for Glee Co-Creator Brad Falchuk". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 7, 2009.

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• I am so attracted to ambition and drive and talent. If a man loves something and can put his heart into it, I am instantly into him. I like a strong man who can be in control and make decisions but who is sensitive and attentive. That is the perfect combination.

  Meaghan Rath

  Strong, Heart, Ambition

  "Get to Know Being Human's Meaghan Rath". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. March 3, 2011.

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• If you want to be in fashion you have to absolutely love what you do, because it's more than a job - it's your life. This is a very intense and hard business. But don't worry, trust life. Anything you want, you are capable of getting, it just takes a combination of effort and grace.

  Lori Goldstein

  Fashion, Jobs, Worry

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• The perfect life is the combination of great moments and bad ones, and under that point of view, my life is fantastic, because I've certainly hit more than one bump.

  Alex Zanardi

  Views, Perfect, Bumps

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• An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture.

  Peter Farb

  Successful, Culture, Elements

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state”, Secker & Warburg

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• What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

  Cheech Marin

  Art, Emotional, Intellectual

  "Cheech And Chong Reunite, At Long Last". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 28, 2010.

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