Combination Quotes - Page 4

• The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Gone, Return, Individualism

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Law, Names

  "Seraphita". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1834.

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• The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.

  Anton Chekhov

  Ideas, Numbers, Understanding

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, October 12, 1892.

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• Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Sports, Team, Army

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• Looking beautiful isnt just about what you apply on your face. Its the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I dont drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.

  Madhuri Dixit

  Beautiful, Exercise, Healthy Habits

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• Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Lying, Science

  "Moralités". Book by Paul Valery, 1932.

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• It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

  Tom Hanks

  Inspiring, Hubble Space Telescope, Physics

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• Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

  Charles Kettering

  Wisdom, Science, Discovery

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• There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

  Robert De Niro

  Discipline, Way, Anarchy

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• There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.

  David Carradine

  Art, Two, Way

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

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• A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Liberty, Obedience, Great Work

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

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• Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Cities, People, Favorite Places

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• Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Perfect, Tennis

  "The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes" by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 593), 2004.

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• The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Argentina, Culture, Tango

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• Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

  Henri Poincare

  Business, Clouds, Ideas

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• It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.

  Serj Tankian

  Matter, Personal Matter

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

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• Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

  George Kennedy

  War, Loss, Umpires

  "Movies, Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids". audiologyonline.com interview, www.audiologyonline.com. May 2, 2005.

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• Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

  Martin Feldstein

  Payment, Interest, Trade

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• Believing in who you are is a major part of a powerful combination for success.

  Darren Johnson

  Powerful, Believe, Majors

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• I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

  Lee Konitz

  Sound, Want, Seven

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• I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I’ll still be questing after just that right combination of words.

  Lauren Willig

  Beautiful, Writing, Thinking

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• The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Education

  1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.29.

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• Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

  Eduard Hanslick

  Music, Mean, Sound

  Quoted by Wolfgang Sandberger (1996) in the liner notes to the Juilliard String Quartet's "Intimate Letters". Sony Classical SK 66840,

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• Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

  Cotton Mather

  Nurse, Firsts, Mankind

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• The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Writing, Eye, Voice

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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