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title: "41 Confluence Quotes by 41 authors"
description: "Browse 41 Confluence quotes by 41 authors. Discover the best Confluence sayings and thoughts."
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> [Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/is-not-every-meanest-day-the-confluence-of-two-eternities/)

[Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/)

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> [Truth lies at the confluence of independent streams of evidence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-deutsch/truth-lies-at-the-confluence-of-independent-streams-of-evidence/)

[Karl Deutsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-deutsch/)

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> [The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-grimes/the-english-inn-stands-permanently-planted-at-the-confluence-of-the/)

[Martha Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-grimes/)

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> [“Confluence didn’t guarantee connection, and indeed could underscore its absence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/confluence-didn-t-guarantee-connection-and-indeed-could-underscore/)

[Mike Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-wallace/)

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> [Im very disappointed that we missed our (earnings per share) growth target this quarter due to the confluence of a number of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carly-fiorina/im-very-disappointed-that-we-missed-our-earnings-per-share-growth/)

[Carly Fiorina](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carly-fiorina/)

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> [A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-morpurgo/a-notion-for-a-story-is-for-me-a-confluence-of-real-events-historical/)

[Michael Morpurgo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-morpurgo/)

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> [Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roselee-goldberg/performance-art-is-really-about-the-sociology-of-the-artist-where/)

[Roselee Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roselee-goldberg/)

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> [There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/there-are-in-life-conjunctions-of-circumstances-when-the-reproach/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

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> [I am passionate about exploring the confluence of environmental and human health. I believe that the goals of conservation must constantly revisit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barton-seaver/i-am-passionate-about-exploring-the-confluence-of-environmental-and/)

[Barton Seaver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barton-seaver/)

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> [You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-isaacson/you-know-one-of-these-things-that-happened-in-the-60s-and-70s-was/)

[Walter Isaacson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-isaacson/)

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> [People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clement-mok/people-adopt-ideas-when-social-personal-and-financial-trends/)

[Clement Mok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clement-mok/)

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> [“The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?" And the answer is:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/the-irritating-question-they-ask-us-us-being-writers-is-where-do-you/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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> [Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I turned quickly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-laurent-d-arlandes/pardon-me-i-answered-as-i-placed-a-bundle-of-straw-upon-the-fire-and/)

[Francois Laurent d'Arlandes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-laurent-d-arlandes/)

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> [If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-chillingworth/if-men-do-their-best-endeavours-to-free-themselves-from-all-errors/)

[William Chillingworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-chillingworth/)

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> [From the 9th to the 15th centuries, the area which is now modern Spain was home to the greatest peaceful agglomeration of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-beiser/from-the-9th-to-the-15th-centuries-the-area-which-is-now-modern-spain/)

[Maya Beiser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-beiser/)

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> [Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-lovecraft/thus-i-began-my-systematic-though-half-bewildered-tour-of-innsmouth-s/)

[H. P. Lovecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-lovecraft/)

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> [Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/where-there-is-a-confluence-of-interests-among-nations-as-for-example/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

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> [“We’ve gotten wind of a confluence.” Apollo set the folder on Quorum’s desk. Quorum pulled the folder over and flicked it open…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/drew-hayes/we-ve-gotten-wind-of-a-confluence-apollo-set-the-folder-on-quorum-s/)

[Drew Hayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/drew-hayes/)

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> [Since we have been out of balance so heavily towards the male, it is going to be the feminine energy which will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neale-donald-walsch/since-we-have-been-out-of-balance-so-heavily-towards-the-male-it-is/)

[Neale Donald Walsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neale-donald-walsch/)

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> [Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/life-for-the-most-part-inevitably-becomes-routine-the-random/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

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> [The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-g-bennis/the-american-heritage-dictionary-defines-crucible-as-a-place-time-or/)

[Warren G. Bennis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-g-bennis/)

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> [“I'm prepared now to use the wonderful word confluence, which of itself exists as a reality and a symbol in one. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eudora-welty/i-m-prepared-now-to-use-the-wonderful-word-confluence-which-of-itself/)

[Eudora Welty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eudora-welty/)

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> [You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-friedman/you-really-do-have-to-wonder-whether-a-few-years-from-now-we-ll-look/)

[Thomas Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-friedman/)

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> [What business needs now is exactly what women are able to provide, and at the very time when women are surging into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-helgesen/what-business-needs-now-is-exactly-what-women-are-able-to-provide-and/)

[Sally Helgesen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-helgesen/)

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> [At first the, only subconsciously apprehended, approaching confluences of complex events make themselves known intuitively within the intellectual weather. Then comes a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-buckminster-fuller/at-first-the-only-subconsciously-apprehended-approaching-confluences/)

[R. Buckminster Fuller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-buckminster-fuller/)

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> [Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-schmid/somewhere-within-all-of-us-is-a-wordless-center-a-part-of-us-that/)

[Richard Schmid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-schmid/)

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> [Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bolton/its-a-combination-of-melody-and-lyrics-not-one-without-the-other-its/)

[Michael Bolton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bolton/)

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> [Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/health-care-it-s-going-to-be-political-it-s-going-to-be-let-s-say-the/)

[Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/)

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> [I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-sunjata/i-think-chicago-people-are-very-special-people-and-the-midwest-s/)

[Daniel Sunjata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-sunjata/)

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> [By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jesmyn-ward/by-the-numbers-by-all-the-official-records-here-at-the-confluence-of/)

[Jesmyn Ward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jesmyn-ward/)

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> [It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-davies/it-will-be-in-the-convergence-of-evolutionary-biology-developmental/)

[Paul Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-davies/)

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> [Rock and roll was a good way to, to first recognize the, the confluence of white artists with it but also to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cosimo-matassa/rock-and-roll-was-a-good-way-to-to-first-recognize-the-the-confluence/)

[Cosimo Matassa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cosimo-matassa/)

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> [The soul is the observer who interprets and makes choices in a confluence of relationships. These relationships provide the background, setting, characters,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deepak-chopra/the-soul-is-the-observer-who-interprets-and-makes-choices-in-a/)

[Deepak Chopra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deepak-chopra/)

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> [I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-coyote/i-think-the-60s-were-an-extraordinary-time-i-feel-bad-for-the-kids/)

[Peter Coyote](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-coyote/)

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> [It was a fortunate moment in history that I happened to be in. There was a confluence of the internet and all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-vespa/it-was-a-fortunate-moment-in-history-that-i-happened-to-be-in-there/)

[Jeff Vespa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-vespa/)

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> [Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-geithner/never-before-in-modern-times-has-so-much-of-the-world-been/)

[Timothy Geithner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-geithner/)

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> [Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ortega-y-gasset/life-is-a-terrible-conflict-a-grandiose-and-atrocious-confluence/)

[Jose Ortega y Gasset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ortega-y-gasset/)

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> [Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-weiner/until-the-eighteenth-century-people-believed-that-biblical-paradise/)

[Eric Weiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-weiner/)

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> [I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-feiler/i-grew-up-as-a-fifth-generation-jew-in-the-american-south-at-the/)

[Bruce Feiler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-feiler/)

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> [Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that those few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-barber/something-special-can-happen-late-at-night-in-a-jazz-club-as-the/)

[Patricia Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-barber/)

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