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• It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Society, Company, Depends

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• A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

  Jonathan Swift

  Romance, Degenerates, Littles

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.582

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• I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn something, whether useful or harmful - that is difficult to analyze until later; you always give something; you alwayou always grow a little in one direction or another.

  Anais Nin

  One Direction, Giving, Joy

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• Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant.

  Samuel Johnson

  Church, Together, Atoms

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.198

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• The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pain, Age, Cups

  Oliver Goldsmith (1816). “A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature”, p.399

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• hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.

  Diane Ackerman

  Romance, Twins, Excitement

  Diane Ackerman (1994). “A Natural History of Love”, Vintage

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• irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Vision, Decay, Sentimental

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.

  Mary Oliver

  Spiritual, Poetry, Curiosity

  Mary Oliver (1995). “Blue Pastures”, Harcourt

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• Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

  Jeremy Collier

  Excess, Degenerates, Virtue

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.101

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• The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

  Edna Ferber

  Men, Flavor, Yeast

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• For each glass, liberally large, the basic ingredients begin with ice cubes in a shaker and three or four drops of Angostura bitters on the ice cubes. Add several twisted lemon peels to the shaker, then a bottle-top of dry vermouth, a bottle-top of Scotch, and multiply the resultant liquid content by five with gin, preferably Bombay Sapphire. Add more gin if you think it is too bland... I have been told, but have no personal proof that it is true, that three of these taken in the course of an evening make it possible to fly from New York to Paris without an airplane.

  Isaac Stern

  New York, Taken, Airplane

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• Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Stories, Flavor

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• Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

  Alphonse Karr

  Haste, Essentials, Calmness

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• suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Suffering, Hospitality, Martini

  Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”

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• Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Home, Character, Doors

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• Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Responsibility, Self, Discipline

  Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Space is the basic ingredient of the universe; there is more of it than anything else.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Space, Universe

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2006). “Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World”, p.68, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual freedom from oppression, I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live.

  Audre Lorde

  Meaningful, Acceptance, Self

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• To determine whether or not you have the ingredients to be charismatic, answer the following questions: What are your real feelings about who you are? What do you believe in? Do you have goals or a mission in life? Do you project optimism? Do others turn to you for leadership? Noncharismatic people spend their lives auditioning for others and hoping they'll be accepted. Charismatic people don't doubt their ability to add value to a situation, so they move forward with their mission.

  Roger Ailes

  Real, Moving Forward, Believe

  Roger Ailes (2012). “You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are”, p.106, Crown Business

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• It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than that of its raw ingredients.

  Alice Waters

  Creative, Cooking, Quality

  Alice Waters (2011). “Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook”, p.24, Random House

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• Debt, weve learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.

  Andrew Ross Sorkin

  Fire, Agency, Light

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• An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of
  democracy.

  Barbara

  Democracy, Citizens, Enlightened

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• But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

  Alex Campbell

  Meaningful, Progress, Essentials

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• It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

  James Beard

  Use, Waste, Thrift

  James Beard (1949). “The fireside cook book: a complete guide to fine cooking for beginner and expert, containing 1217 recipes and over 400 color pictures”

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• Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Rewards, Virtue, Consequence

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