Compounded Quotes

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads… — Victor Hugo
The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights, filling the kettle,… — George Monbiot
Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. — John Walford
There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude, and peace. The… — Sigurd F. Olson
We occupy a space of our own creation-a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions,… — Willard Gaylin
In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck… — Bertrand Russell
"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour. — Samuel Johnson
From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith the several sorts… — Isaac Newton
Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three… — Joseph Cook
The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas. — Baruch Spinoza
All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence! — Gautama Buddha
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the… — Walter Moers
Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and most successful confidence… — Vernon Coleman
The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution, — Newt Gingrich
All your names I and my friend approve of or nearly all as to sense & expression, but I am frightened by their length &… — Michael Faraday
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature… — Aaron Siskind
But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult… — Michael Faraday
The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education. — Bertrand Russell
A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief… — Will Eisner
But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and not yet discovered?… — Roger Cotes

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