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The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Action
Evenus

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Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
Writers and Writing
Clifton Fadiman

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There is something in sorrow more akin to the course of human affairs than joy.
Sorrow
C. Fitzhugh

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There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.
Obedience
William Edward Forster

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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Excuses
Benjamin Franklin

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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Poetry and Poets
Robert Frost

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
Money
Robert Fulghum

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Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Contentment
Thomas Fuller

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He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Appearance
Thomas Fuller

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An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Revenge
Mahatma Gandhi

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Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.
Unity
Mahatma Gandhi

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
Time and Time Management
Harold S. Geneen

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
Speakers and Speaking
German Proverb

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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Generosity
Kahlil Gibran

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Pain
Kahlil Gibran

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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
Psychology
Oliver Goldsmith

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Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
Poverty and The Poor
Thomas Gray

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Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Promises
William Hazlitt

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The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
Inheritance
William Hazlitt

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Education is the art of making man ethical.
Education
Georg Hegel

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I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.
Seriousness
Barbara Hershey

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
Success
Billie Holiday

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The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
Poetry and Poets
Horace

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The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
Mistakes
Elbert Hubbard

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Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.
Guests
Kin Hubbard

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun