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• Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Inspire, Mediocrity

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• A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly analyze the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the senses, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what ; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man... He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton's prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Ignorance, Passion, Learning

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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• Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Inspiration, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Ryan Bartelmay, believermag.com. May 15, 2018.

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• When you're 18, you're just so busy being scared and having fun - a crazy mixture - that you never thought of dying.

  Don Rickles

  Fun, Crazy, Dying

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• A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Religion, Would Be

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I do not believe in a mixture of good and evil in the world, or in myself. All is Good.

  Emma Curtis Hopkins

  Believe, Evil, World

  Emma Curtis Hopkins (2007). “Scientific Christian Mental Practice”, p.85, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!

  Candice Swanepoel

  Healthy, Looks, Feels

  "VS Angel Candice Swanepoel's Style Secrets!". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 30, 2010.

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• Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'

  Heraclitus

  Decay, Strife

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• Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

  John Milton

  Earth, Divinity, Breathe

  'Comus' (1637) l. 244

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• It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Gossip, Romance, Facts

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the first elementary particle discovered by J.J. Thomson in 1897. Dirac was puzzled by an unprecedented property of space-time, discovered by Lorentz in his studies of electromagnetic forces, whereby if space was real, time had to be imaginary, and vice versa. In other words, space and time had to be a ‘complex’ mixture of two quantities, one real and the other imaginary.

  Antonino Zichichi

  Real, Two, Space

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• Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.

  Dan Simmons

  Perfect, Creative, Spirit

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Hyperion”, p.261, Spectra

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• Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Long, Waiting, Unjust

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• We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

  Matisyahu

  Black And White, Different, World

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• In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English gentlemanliness and his favorite notions of personal hygiene. Everybody knew that his class was liable to degenerate into a demonstration of some practical points about rowing, with Buggy sitting on the table and showing us how to pull an oar.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Religious, Teaching

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I do not believe in race as such. Race is a fraud. All modern people are the conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that no pure race remains.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Race, People

  Albert Einstein (1933). “The fight against war”

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• The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.

  Austin O'Malley

  Evil, World, Facts

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• So many things suddenly made sense for the clowns, for the whole idea. I’d been going through a struggle, particularly after 9/11; I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to say. I still wanted the work to be the same kind of mixture – intense, with a nasty side or an ugly side, but also with a real pathos about the characters – and clowns have an underlying sense of sadness while they’re trying to cheer people up. Clowns are sad, but they’re also psychotically, hysterically happy.

  Cindy Sherman

  Cheer, Real, Struggle

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• I have an iPod, but I do still love CDs. There's something nice and tangible about a CD. I'm a mixture of old and new - I love my sewing machine, but I've also embraced new technology. The iPad is what did it for me - it's extraordinary.

  Twiggy

  Nice, Technology, Cds

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• We live in a melting pot. More and more, people are some kind of mixture. Even if you're Caucasian, you're a mixture of something.

  Brooklyn Sudano

  People, Melting Pot, Kind

  Source: www.flowinsiders.com

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• Yoga is a product of Eastern thought. A further complication is that the early Yoga teachers were both Indian and Hindu. So from the late 1800's and early 1900's the Yoga teachers who came across were as interested in Hinduism as in Yoga. Often what we were being taught was a mixture of two different systems.

  Paul Harvey

  Teacher, Yoga, Two

  Source: www.yogastudies.org

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• He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Christian, Mistake

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• The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Reading, Class, Poetry

  Thomas Love Peacock, Herbert Francis Brett Brett-Smith (1921). “Four Ages of Poetry: Shelley's Defence of Poetry. Browning's Essay on Shelley. Edited by H.F.B. Brett-Smith”

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• November’s days are thirty: November’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths.... Few care for the mixture of earth and water, Twig, leaf, flint, thorn, Straw, feather, all that men scorn, Pounded up and sodden by flood, Condemned as mud.

  Edward Thomas

  Nature, Dirty, Men

  Edward Thomas (2012). “Poems of Edward Thomas”, p.28, Other Press, LLC

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• Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Order, Wind

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