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• Our knowledge of shape and form remains, in general, a mixture of visual and of tactile experiences... A child learns about roundness from handling a ball far more than from looking at it.

  Henry Moore

  Children, Balls, Shapes

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.210, Univ of California Press

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• When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.

  Ayn Rand

  Evil, Choices, Alternatives

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• Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

  Hugh Prather

  Victory, Problem, Life Is

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.42, Bantam

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• It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.

  Keren Ann

  Everyday, Trying, Sound

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• Life is a mixture of successes and failures. May you be encouraged by the successes and strengthened by the failures. As long as you never lose faith in God, you will be victorious over any situation you may face.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Long, May, Faces

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.95, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

  Jasper Fforde

  Interesting, Comedy, Lowbrow

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• The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture, which greatly facilitates the task of the fear-mongers and chauvinists, needs a very exact and nuanced diagnosis. I don't think that analogies from the totalitarian model, however suggestive, are sufficient.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, United States, Tasks

  Christopher Hitchens (1994). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.219, Verso

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• Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Ambition, Sacrifice, Men

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• We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.

  Henry Fielding

  Character, Evil, Balance

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1853). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Complete in One Volume”, p.540

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• My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

  Stephen Fry

  Writing, Two, Performing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.

  Paula Deen

  White, Tomatoes, Bells

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• We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This is a quite extraordinary legacy that we all have inherited from the people who lived before us.Our genes did not just appear when we were born.They have been carried to us by millions of individual lives over thousands of generations.

  Bryan Sykes

  Journey, People, Legacy

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• Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and apprehensiveness; it was like watching a great mathematician wielding an infinitesimal calculus, his equations approaching nearer and still nearer to the null point.

  John Banville

  Math, Null, Volume

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• In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially if the wealth has been accumulated rapidly. For great wealth is accumulated rapidly by cunning or chance, or a mixture of the two. Cunning has nothing to do with high qualities; it is rather a presumption against them; while chance has nothing to do with them either. Therefore it is that men are always complaining after meeting So-and-so, that he seemed to be astonishingly stupid, though he made a million in ten years and started as a pauper.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Stupid, Men, Years

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• Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental.

  Frederick Lenz

  Discovery, Self, Form

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• You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.

  Antony Flew

  Atheism, Three, Letters

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• Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you're looking into your memory, a dream or hallucination. The characters become a mixture of archetypes, [and] that's what I like. You're trying to figure it out and your brain wants to categorize things, but it can't because of this motion. You want to solve the problem, but it never gets solved. It's like when you read a really good book and the story never leaves you.

  Ali Banisadr

  Dream, I Like You, Memories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Past, Self, Sorrow

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.415, 谷月社

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• poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

  Annie Dillard

  Able, Journalism, Interpretation

  Annie Dillard (1983). “Living by Fiction”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Queens, Actresses, Victoria

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• There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be, and whether any flavour save that of onions will survive the competition in the mixture.

  Annie Besant

  Competition, Onions, Excitement

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Teenager, Land, Confusion

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• We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Men, Masculine And Feminine, Quality

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.87, New Victoria Publishers

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• Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,--affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Mean, Compassion

  Henry Fielding (1916). “The Works of Henry Fielding”, p.299, Library of Alexandria

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• I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

  Daphne Guinness

  Children, Thinking, Imagination

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