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Letter "M" » mixtures
«There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo -- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.»
Author: Gore Vidal
| Keywords:
heterosexual, heterosexuals, heterosexual person, homo, homosexual, if not, impulses, mixture, mixtures, practices
«Language is a mixture of statement and evocation»
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
evocation, mixture, mixtures, statement, The Statement
«I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.»
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
(Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
East, East Is East, mixture, mixtures, nowhere, out of place, queer, queerer, queerest, The East, the West, West
«The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.»
«Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.»
Author: Marlene Dietrich
(Actress)
| About:
Courage,
Grace
| Keywords:
bullring, formidable, mixture, mixtures
«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
«Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| Keywords:
constraints, cultural, degrees of freedom, degree of freedom, Freedom of Choice, inducement, inducements, mixtures, One The, processes, social process, tied
«No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.»
«His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Houses,
Perfection
| Keywords:
food for thought, good story, liked, mixture, mixtures, pleasant, singing, sitting, story, telling, Telling Stories
«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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