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Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind. ↗

— Cotton Mather

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Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

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Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis. ↗

— William Jackson

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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing. ↗

— Frank Shorter

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Diphthongs are indicated by combinations of hooks and circles. ↗

— John Robert Gregg

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