"There is no genius without a mixture of madness."
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"I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror."
"Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense."
"I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization."
"Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it."
"The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in it you find the signs of his commitments, and of the whole way of writing as well. This mixture of austerity and sensuality, the will to speak for those not able to speak for themselves."
"If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed."
"I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in."
"A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised."
"No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or entirely the same, in our mixture of the broad behavioral propensities defining what we call "temperament"."
"Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three."
"Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!"