#confluence

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

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The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?" And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra! ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful. ↗

— Michael Bolton

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We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

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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 simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological. ↗

— Peter Coyote

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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 computer culture. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

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