Barbara Kingsolver
Author, Biologist
"No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill."
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Robin Morgan
Feminist, Writer
"Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author, Statistician
"I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns."
Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering."
Alfred North Whitehead
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas' - that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations."
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"The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression"
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"He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination."
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"I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work."
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"The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin."
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"You are horror and beauty in rare combination."
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"You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses."
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"A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital."
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"Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination."
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"No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path."
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"We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall."
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"You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life."
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"Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare"
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"The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents."
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"Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'."
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"Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules."
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"It's a combination of yes - making a movie about the characters - and then, also, budget."
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"When I make fried chicken I always serve masses and masses of fresh mangos. It's a great combination."
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"Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha."
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"Azhar Usman is very funny, deeply spiritual, and extremely hairy. He's like Zach Galifianakis meets Deepak Chopra-and funnier than you'd expect that combination to be."
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"If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man?"
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