Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"All human power is a compound of time and patience."
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Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form which is a mental image."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility"
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound."
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"I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual."
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"There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality."
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"It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths “peace"."
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"The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die."
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"Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic."
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