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Letter "M" » mixture
«The definition of the composition of air ensues from this program of research : atmospheric air is not an element, that is, a simple body, but a mixture of several gases. Approximately a quarter of atmospheric air is composed by dephologisticated or»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
approximately, atmospheric, composed, composition, ensue, ensued, ensues, ensuing, gases, mixture, program, quarter, research
«What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.»
Author: Georges Bernanos
| Keywords:
adolescence, first flight, hover, hovered, hovers, irony, mixture, surrounds, tenderness, watchfulness, young bird
«The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.»
Author: Peter Kropotkin
| Keywords:
adroit, beneficial, customs, enforced, followed, harmful, laws and customs, mixture, ruling, The Masses
«The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.»
«What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
flair, have got, mixture, sense of purpose
«We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.»
Author: Paul Valery
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Self-love
| Keywords:
condemn, contrary, losing, mixture, mixtures, permanently, prevents, prohibit, prohibited, prohibiting, prohibits, pursues, self-loving, selfishness, self love, wont, wont to
«What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
appeal, culture, essentially, lovable, mixture, mixtures, popular, popular culture, sex appeal
«The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance called 'faith.'»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
absurd, bliss, dependence, everlasting, Ignorance is bliss, insanity, merits, mixture, mixtures, notion, observation, refutation, refutations, relieved, relieving, rewarded, unhappy
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