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“The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.”

Results Mankind Genius Combination Bombs Remarkable Atomic Bomb

Author:Bertrand Russell

“The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.”

War Moments Certain Fighting Force Results Fate Objects Battle Various Accomplish Critical Combination Flash Reserves Hostile Critical Moments

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.”

Ideas Reason Culture Language Understanding Results Numbers Depends Definitions Combination Latter No Reason Conception

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in a condition that can be hidden only with the application of another hat.”

Results Conditions Chosen Combination Hats Application Unfortunate Affliction Selected Hairstyles

Book:Knitting Rules!: The Yarn Harlot's Bag of Knitting Tricks

Source: Knitting Rules!: The Yarn Harlot's Bag of Knitting Tricks

“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning. The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.”

“The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment ... seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by "the death of God" and of the subordinate god, Eros.”

World Self Seems Sex Causes Results Democratic Protection Tendencies Combination Atmosphere Companion Regimes Subordinates Eros Self Protection Disenchantment

Book:Love and Friendship

Source: Love and Friendship

“Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.”

Men Young Results Comfort Men And Women West Educated Combination Young Man Cynicism Powerlessness

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“With comedy, it's a combination of knowing the comedic beat was good - it made you laugh, it made people on the crew laugh. With drama, you do something deep and if your stuff was really effective, the ultimate result is silence. Silence is not necessarily... that would also be the result if you sucked.”

People Ifs Made Stuff Results Silence Laughing Knowing Comedy Drama Beats Ultimate Combination Crew Silence Is Comedic

Author:Chris Pratt

“Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less real, and we are surprised to arrive, notwithstanding a painful labour, only at a result contradicted by nature; as if after having disguised it, cut it short or altered it, a purely mechanical combination could give it back to us.”

“In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means.”

May Mean Hands Energy Results Data Combination Simplest Absorbing Airy Indomitable

Book:Lecture on the Pendulum-experiments at Harton Pit: Delivered in the Central Hall, South Shields, October 24, 1854

Source: Lecture on the Pendulum-experiments at Harton Pit: Delivered in the Central Hall, South Shields, October 24, 1854

“We cannot forbear suggesting one practical result which it appears to us must be greatly facilitated by the independent manner in which the engine orders and combines its operations: we allude to the attainment of those combinations into which imaginary quantities enter.”

Order Results Independent Practicals Combination Operations Engines Quantity Imaginary Attainment Suggesting

Author:Ada Lovelace

“What's the third metric beyond money and power? I think it's a combination of wellbeing and wisdom. Because the problem also with defining success just in terms of money and power means that people feel that they have to work around the clock, burn out, and the result is people making terrible decisions.”

People Thinking Feels Mean Problem Term Decision Results Terrible Thirds Combination Clock Defining Wellbeing Burn Out Metrics Money And Power

Author:Arianna Huffington

“A demanding performance challenge tends to create a Team. In any situation requiring a combination of multiple skills, experiences and judgments, a team inevitably gets better results than a collection of individuals. Teams provide the kind of responsiveness, speed, on-line customization and quality that is beyond the reach of individual performance.”