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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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• 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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• Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry are two of the hottest girls in the world - and so normal and funny with it. If I was a few years older they are the kind of girls I'd like to date. I want a younger version of Cheryl and Katy - a mixture of the two would be hot.

  Justin Bieber

  Funny, Girl, Years

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• I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

  Walter Becker

  Odds, Stuff, World

  America Online Interview, steelydanreader.com. November 17, 1994.

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• This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.

  Eric Clapton

  Pain, Journey, Moments

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• I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

  Penelope Lively

  Writing, Fiction, May

  "'I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

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• Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

  Olivia Wilde

  Believe, Essential Oils, Essentials

  Interview with Tina Turnbow, April 25, 2012.

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• What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

  Georges Bernanos

  Teenage, Knowing, Bird

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.123, Da Capo Press

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• I think being mediocre and in the middle would be the worst. It's more interesting to get strong reactions, and to have the mixture of people who get it and the people who don't get it. And to invite a dialogue.

  Sofia Coppola

  Strong, Thinking, People

  Source: www.chud.com

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• My personal style is a mixture of, like, girly, throwback, like retro '50s pin-ups, floral, like hippies, like anything feminine, and like flirty.

  Ariana Grande

  Girly, Flirty, Hippie

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• Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

  Susan Jacoby

  Truth, Expectations, Intellectual

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• Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

  Deepak Chopra

  Islam, Obedience, Militancy

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• Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Duplicity, Generosity

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• Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

  Laurence Sterne

  Book, Pouring, Vessel

  Laurence Sterne (1767). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.3

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• I can't tell you enough about cinnamon. Cinnamon is an awesome spice to use and it goes great with something like apples in the morning or in a mixture of fruit or in your oatmeal or even in your cereal.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Morning, Cereal, Apples

  "Emeril on eating smart and efficient". ESPNHS Interview, www.espn.com. February 1, 2012.

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• Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness. ... Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fear, Reading, Sleep

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• My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.

  Grace Jones

  Kings, Dad, Father

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• Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

  Francis Bacon

  Lying, Light, Triumph

  Francis Bacon (1852). “The essays or counsels civil and moral and wisdom of the Ancients by Francis (Bacon) Lord Verulam: Edited by B[asil] Montagu”, p.2

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• Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.

  Kathi Appelt

  Gratitude, Prayer, Lying

  Kathi Appelt (2012). “The Underneath”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think you should be an Auror, Harry," said Luna unexpectedly. Everybody looked at her. "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working to bring down the Ministry of Magic from within using a mixture of dark magic and gum disease.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dark, Thinking, Magic

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• I hear there are people who actually enjoy moving. Sounds like a disease to me - they must be unstable. Though it does have it’s poetry, I’ll allow that. When an old dwelling starts looking desolate, a mixture of regret and anxiety comes over us and we feel like we are leaving a safe harbor for the rolling sea. As for the new place, it looks on us with alien eyes, it has nothing to say to us, it is cold.

  Jan Neruda

  Regret, Moving, Eye

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• I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry.

  David Sheff

  Worry, Becoming, Used

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Christian, Atheist, Errors

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• He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did it; I have no control of myself or anything that's happened. So now I'm waking up. I'm awake, he thought ... I've been destroyed and now that I'm awake all I can do is realize it ... The shock of getting up there and telling that account made me see. Mixture of lies and bits of truth. Woven together. Unable to see where each starts.

  Philip K. Dick

  Lying, People, Together

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• What I notice is that every adult or child I give a new set of Crayolas to goes a little funny. The kids smile, get a glazed look on their faces, pour the crayons out, and just look at them for a while....The adults always get the most wonderful kind of sheepish smile on their faces--a mixture of delight and nostalgia and silliness. And they immediately start telling you about all their experiences with Crayolas.

  Robert Fulghum

  Children, Kids, Giving

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