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• Aggressiveness is good in a combat leader. Combining that with ambition and insecurity becomes more problematic.

  Richard North Patterson

  Ambition, Leader, Insecurity

  Richard North Patterson (2011). “In the Name of Honour”, p.255, Pan Macmillan

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• I've been making 16mm urban landscape films about San Francisco for many years. I choose different nonfiction themes to investigate and am generally interested in surfacing lesser-known histories. I like to investigate and illuminate these histories, combining them with my own unconventional storytelling style, which is generally a stream-of-consciousness voiceover involving a steady stream of personal reflections on pining over unavailable women.

  Jenni Olson

  Reflection, Years, San Francisco

  "Sundance Women Directors: Meet Jenni Olson – ‘The Royal Road’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. January 25, 2015.

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• By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness]. The dread equation is a simplification, but it's a way to explain why we fear something so much when it is so unlikely. Part of it is the lack of control. That's why we're more scared of plane crashes than car crashes even though we know rationally which is more dangerous.

  Amanda Ripley

  Smart, Car, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Rights, Law, Used

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• If a piece requires some specific inflection, I'll record it. I take a lot of notes, and later categorize them, combining them alongside existing ideas, and eventually put a piece together.

  George Carlin

  Ideas, Together, Pieces

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• I hope we shall see more ande more women combining marriage and a career. Prejudice against this dual role is not confined to men. I regret to say, it comes from our own sex.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Sex, Regret, Men

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• The camera eye is the one in the middle of our forehead, combining how we see with what there is to be seen.

  Wright Morris

  Eye, Cameras, Middle

  Wright Morris (1989). “Time pieces: photographs, writing, and memory”

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• Technology has helped me with the writing and recording processes, and it's a great way to reach out to fans of my music, ... Dell's combining all these different technologies and making it really easy to enjoy them.

  Sheryl Crow

  Writing, Technology, Different

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• The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Ideas, Car, Red Lipstick

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• ...This large and expensive stock of drugs will be unnecessary. By...doses of...medicines...multiplying...combining them properly, 20 to 30 articles, aided by the common resources of the lancet, a garden, a kitchen, fresh air, cool water, exercise, will be sufficient to cure all the diseases that are at present under the power of medicine.

  Benjamin Rush

  Dark, Exercise, Garden

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• Scientists may study mainly matter but they cannot ignore the human mind, or consciousness: spiritual practitioners may be engaging mainly in developing the mind but they cannot completely ignore their physical needs. It is for this reason that I have always stressed the importance of combining both mental and the material approach to achieving happiness for humankind.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Mind, Stressed

  Dalai Lama, Herbert Benson, Robert Thurman, Howard Gardner, Daniel Goleman (2012). “MindScience: An East-West Dialogue”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• The interesting products out on the Internet today are not building new technologies. They're combining technologies. Instagram, for instance: Photos plus geolocation plus filters. Foursquare: restaurant reviews plus check-ins plus geo.

  Jack Dorsey

  Technology, Interesting, Filters

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• We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.

  William H. Gass

  Doe, Elements, World

  William H. Gass (1978). “The world within the word: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.

  Robert E. Howard

  Oil, Bully, Fields

  Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, July 23, 1935.

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• DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape.

  Alvin Ailey

  Book, Texas, Creating

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• Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Elements, Birth, Mystery

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Crystal Cruises has individually crafted each European cruise itinerary to provide a rich combination of destinations with more overnight stays and more time in ports. Whether taking a shorter seven-day jaunt or combining several unique cruises to create the ultimate European exploration, luxury travelers will enjoy the grandeur of Europe and the warmth and luxury of the Crystal experience.

  Bill Smith

  Unique, Europe, Luxury

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• If Tehran insists on combining the Persian imperial tradition with contemporary Islamic fervor, then a collision with America and, indeed, with its negotiating partners of the Six is unavoidable. Iran simply cannot be permitted to fulfill a dream of imperial rule in a region of such importance to the rest of the world.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Dream, Islamic, Iran

  "The Next Steps With Iran". The Washington Post, p. A15, www.washingtonpost.com. July 31, 2006.

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• Boredom reigns on all levels. The rain is a welcome change. I have seen the pond swell and the creek surge. I press my palm against the glass, imagining the drops on my skin, imagining where they started out, where they will go, feeling them like a river, rushing, combining, becoming something greater than how they started out.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Rain, Glasses, Rivers

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.45, Macmillan

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• The abstracting of visual elements in order to recognize their particularity has become automatic, but seeing, combining, and creating them as integrated 'wholes' will remain a lifelong challenge.

  Freeman Patterson

  Order, Creating, Challenges

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• Combining valuable insights from his experience in China, his time as the World Bank's chief economist, and the 2008 financial crisis, Justin Yifu Lin's recommendations for development policy reflect an impressive and unique personal journey.

  Kemal Dervis

  Journey, Unique, Development

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• The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Impact, Numbers, Principles

  Margaret Thatcher (2017). “Statecraft”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Men, Mind

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.433, Herman Melville

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• A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.

  Walter Bagehot

  Cabinets, States, Hyphens

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Cabinet'

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• But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true, some false, some funny, some tragic, and all of them combining to form the mystical, undefinable entity we call the school. Not exactly the building, not exactly the faculty or the students or the alumni - more than all those things but also less, a paradox, an order, a mystery, a monster, an utter joy.

  Stephen L. Carter

  School, Order, Joy

  "The Emperor of Ocean Park". Book by Stephen L. Carter, April 1, 2002.

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