Confluence Quotes

• Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

  Michael Bolton

  Powerful, Different, Elements

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• We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Arrogant, Possibility

  "Interview with the President of South Africa, President Thabo Mbeki, on SABC2 following his State of the Nation Address 2005". SABC2 Interview, www.gov.za. 13 February 2005.

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• I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.

  Peter Coyote

  Kids, Thinking, Today

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• Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.

  Timothy Geithner

  World, Financial, Modern

  "Geithner's Speech to the Economic Club of Washington" by Timothy Geithner, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 22, 2009.

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• It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Lying, Answers

  "Cancer: The beat of an ancient drum?" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2011.

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• You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?

  Thomas Friedman

  Thinking, Government, Years

  "The Earth Is Full". www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2011.

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• Im very disappointed that we missed our (earnings per share) growth target this quarter due to the confluence of a number of issues that we now understand and are urgently addressing. I accept full responsibility for the shortfall.

  Carly Fiorina

  Responsibility, Numbers, Issues

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• Truth lies at the confluence of independent streams of evidence.

  Karl Deutsch

  Lying, Independent, Evidence

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• The soul is the observer who interprets and makes choices in a confluence of relationships. These relationships provide the background, setting, characters, and events that shape the stories of our lives.

  Deepak Chopra

  Character, Choices, Soul

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence”, p.51, Harmony

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• Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so often, I catch a glimpse of my life out of the corner of my eye, and am rendered breathless by it.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Eye, Glimpse, Routine

  Jonathan Tropper (2011). “Everything Changes”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design.

  Clement Mok

  Ideas, People, Design

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• You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

  Walter Isaacson

  Counter Culture, Computer, Happened

  "Steve Jobs Biographer Walter Isaacson on the Apple CEO's Polarizing Persona" by Ned Potter, abcnews.go.com. October 23, 2011.

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• Rock and roll was a good way to, to first recognize the, the confluence of white artists with it but also to kind of pretty it up a little bit, clean it up a little bit, make it more acceptable to, to people.

  Cosimo Matassa

  Artist, White, Rocks

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• A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Memories, Real, Historical

  "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a part that has remained unchanged since we were children, the source of our strength and compassion. This faint confluence of the tangible and the spiritual is where Art comes from. It has no known limits, and once you tap into it you will realize what truly rich choices you have. May each painting you do from that sacred place include an expression of gratitude for the extraordinary privilege of being an artist.

  Richard Schmid

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Art

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• Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

  Roselee Goldberg

  Art, Ideas, Sociology

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures." A crucible was the vessel in which medieval alchemists attempted to turn base metals into gold. That the alchemists inevitably failed in their audacious attempts doesn't denigrate the power of the crucible as a metaphor for the circumstances that cause an individual to be utterly transformed.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Powerful, Political, Crucible

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I am passionate about exploring the confluence of environmental and human health. I believe that the goals of conservation must constantly revisit a stated purpose.

  Barton Seaver

  Believe, Goal, Environmental

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• Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I turned quickly but already we had passed out of sight of La Muette. Astonished I cast a glance towards the river. I perceived the confluence of the Oise. And naming the principal bends of the river by the places nearest them, I cried, "Passy, St. Germain, St. Denis, Sevres!"

  Francois Laurent d'Arlandes

  Airplane, Fire, Sight

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• Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning international institutions like the World Health Organization. And you can act. Climate change is different, because the science remains hypothetical and the potential costs staggering.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Get Well, Organization, World

  "'Obama Is Average'". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Two, Eternity

  "The French Revolution, A History" by Thomas Carlyle, part I, book VI, chapter V., 1837.

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• By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Numbers, Racism, Records

  Jesmyn Ward (2013). “Men We Reaped: A Memoir”, p.139, A&C Black

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• There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.

  Anton Chekhov

  Circumstances, Reproach

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.

  Martha Grimes

  Memories, Romance, England

  Martha Grimes (2013). “The Man with a Load of Mischief”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• It was a fortunate moment in history that I happened to be in. There was a confluence of the internet and all this other stuff that I was able to capitalize on.

  Jeff Vespa

  Able, Stuff, Internet

  "Discovering Jeff Vespa". Interview with Jena Malone, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 14, 2014.

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