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“Never lie to a child about doctors or medicine or anything else; but if you feel, as some people seem to feel, that life without lying is an impossibility, at least don't lie about the amount of pain likely to result from a surgical procedure, or about the taste of some medicine. If you know that something to be done will hurt, say so; if a mixture to be swallowed is unpleasant, say so. If you deceive a child once in such matters, do not imagine that it will trust you again. You do not deserve trust, and you will not get it.”

Source: The House and Home: A Practical Book

“The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however, a spiritual present that identifies past and future through dissolution, and this mixture is the element, the atmosphere of the poet.”

Mean Past Spiritual Results Poet Elements Normal Limitation Atmosphere Mixtures Dissolution

Author:Novalis

“The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.”

States Results Economic Miracle Clever Incentives Mixtures Korean Pragmatic

Book:Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Source: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

“Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.”

Results Known Effects Oil Substance Scent Mixtures

Author:Otto Wallach

“The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.”

Self Results Creation Limits Determination Infinite Notion Extremes Cosmos Self Determination Mixtures Expanse

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly analyze the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the senses, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what ; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man... He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton's prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures.”