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Familiar Quotations

Conjunctions – "Coincidence"

A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous.–Anonymous

Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.–Anonymous

Conjunctions – "Combination"

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.–Maya Angelou

Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top.–D. A. Benton

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.–Fawn M. Brodie

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.–Finley Peter Dunne

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.–Farrah Fawcett

The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.–Milan Kundera

Business is a combination of war and sport.–André Maurois

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.–Robert De Niro

• Preface iv
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Conjunctions – "Coincidence" 1
• Conjunctions – "Combination" 1
• Conjunctions – "Combined" 2
• Conjunctions – "Concurrence" 2
• Conjunctions – "Contact" 2
• Use in Literature 4
• Conjunctions 4
• Conjunctions – "Acting" 16
• Conjunctions – "Army" 17
• Conjunctions – "Circumstances" 17
• Conjunctions – "Combination" 18
• Conjunctions – "Constant" 19
• Conjunctions – "Contact" 20
• Conjunctions – "Few" 21
• Conjunctions – "Forces" 21
• Conjunctions – "Form" 22
• Conjunctions – "Greater" 23
• Conjunctions – "Having" 23
• Conjunctions – "Ideas" 24
• Conjunctions – "Lives" 25
• Conjunctions – "Man" 26
• Conjunctions – "Means" 27
• Conjunctions – "Name" 27
• Conjunctions – "Nature" 28
• Conjunctions – "Night" 29
• Conjunctions – "Object" 29
• Conjunctions – "Planets" 30
• Conjunctions – "Power" 31
• Conjunctions – "Present" 31
• Conjunctions – "Sense" 32
• Conjunctions – "Stranger" 33
• Conjunctions – "Various" 33
• Conjunctions – "Works" 33
• Conjunctions – "World" 34
• Nonfiction Usage 36
• Patent Usage 36
• Bibliographic Usage 36
• Encyclopedic Usage 49
• Lexicographic Usage 74
• Index 147